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Leaving aside the debate about how doing this would endanger legitimately civilian aircraft, my question is why would you do that in the first place?
Leaving aside the fact that this is just an unsubstantiated assertion made by a historically anti-Trump source, maybe it was to reduce the boat taking evasive actions? Or to prevent other boats from acting as scouts to alert smugglers of routes to avoid?
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re: Kap & Nunez
Posted by Tupelo on 1/13/26 at 6:11 pm to JoseyWalesTheOutlaw
I don't disagree much with you when it comes to the big money blue chip guys. It may still matter to the lesser paid or the developmental guys. It would at least be good to have someone to talk to the OL prospects, though, as opposed to telling them "yeah, we don't have an OL coach right now". I don't think we're ready to announce anything about coaching changes, yet (if we have changes planned, which we hope). We're already paying the coaches salary, what good would vacating the positions do for us at this point in time?
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Posted by Tupelo on 1/13/26 at 3:29 pm to SPennington
Preface this with me saying I'm not an insider, and don't know crap. Maybe their replacements aren't hireable until after the NFL playoffs and or the CFP are done. In the meantime we need coaches in place to finish out the portal.
I'm just pulling for the Rams to lose. Maybe our OL fortunes will pick up as a result of their TE coach being available then. We can hope, can't we?
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by Tupelo on 1/12/26 at 8:17 pm to CrimsonBoz
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Looks like we might get Clark from Texas. RB
I saw that somewhere a day or so ago, but most people were skeptical at the time. Maybe there was something to it after all.
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I guess I’m sorta in between you two. My first Bama quarterback is Jeff’s older brother, Gary Rutledge.
Scott Hunter was the QB I first followed. He had flashes, but was an Int machine. Thankfully Terry Davis followed him.
George Carlin was funny at first, then as time progressed he revealed himself to be a bitter, cynical, mean spirited atheist.
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NFL teams carry 2 and some 3 on a Sunday. No reason to dilute NIL money by carrying 5 RBs. Dear, Riley and Mitchell contributed absolutely nothing this season. I’m not saying they aren’t talented, I’m simply
NFL can add players in the middle of the season if that happens, we can't. Riley contributed when others were hurt, he was basically the second back for a time.
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If you lose 3 in one season well that’s just the risk you have to take. I
We have repeatedly lost 3 RBs In one season in the past. One year under Saban we were forced to play a LB at RB. We lost 3 RBs last year for stretches of time, and that was without us being as run heavy as many would have liked. RBs take a beating.
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They should have spent some major dimes and locked in (on the dotted line) a good RB and other positions of need. A big-time experienced WR (for QBs who have never started a single college game) would have been nice too
We just don't have the money to spend. I'm sure we would have liked to throw money around like Oregon, Texas, Texas A&M, Ohio State, Michigan, etc, but we don't have that much money.
It's doubtful that they were the only ones asking for more money. I'm sure we had to bump up money to retain virtually every player on the team. When we signed Lotzeir Brooks, for example, he wasn't a well known name, I'll bet it took quite an advance to keep him here now.
We also don't know how high of a figure that Smith and Russaw were asking.
We also don't know how high of a figure that Smith and Russaw were asking.
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I mean we know how good our defensive guys in the portal are but we’re not trying to retain any of them apparently.
True, so that obviously means we don't think they're worth what they're demanding to be paid. Money is more of an object to us than it is to Oregon. If they can't find anyone that exceeds the max we offered them, we'd probably take them back. I'd imagine.
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Apparently we really don’t have the money. that some thought we did.
We tied up a lot of money on top notch facilities and equipment, which used to be big selling points in recruiting. Unfortunately, those things are little help anymore, the players are chasing the short term money.
Any players that we recruit who turn out to be exceptional will be poached the following year (or after such time as it takes for us to make them valuable). It's dismal. It's pretty much build a new team every year, only count on each player being here for a year.
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I’m sure but you’d figure Oregon could afford anyone. Bama should have some cash to spend after today’s announcements.
Maybe there's a reason Oregon's not ponying up the cash to retain them. They're not productive enough or Oregon's going to upgrade at their positions. Who knows?
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Lol, wtf do you think Saban was doing for all those years in Tuscaloosa? Bringing in the best HS football players in the country by showing them the campus library? ?
Showing them the number of players he had sent to the NFL compared to everyone else, and the top facilities in place to support their development. That's no longer much of a consideration for players, they just want to see how much you'll pay them now.
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by Tupelo on 1/10/26 at 2:14 pm to angryslugs
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Think people are missing the boat on the Indiana roster. Nine of their defensive starters were recruited out of high school at IU or by Cig at JMU. Five offensive starters too.
Also from the Rant, someone responded that only 3 of IU's starters were recruited by Cignetti at IU. He brought 5 with him from JMU, the others were already at IU or were transfers. I haven't verified that.
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We were actually pretty evenly matched vs. Indiana. We just got unlucky with a couple of turnovers, and our QB broke his ribs. shite happens.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
He's trolling.
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by Tupelo on 1/9/26 at 12:18 pm to JoseyWalesTheOutlaw
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It's about time Bama hand another punter to flip the field for us for a change. Our offense had to drive the ball to at least our 45 just to keep from losing more field position. Add in the stupid attempts of running back kickoffs that got us at the 15.
Very true on both counts. It was puzzling how badly Doud punted, based on his previous experience.
The kickoff returns have been a source of frustration to me, dating back to Saban's last few years. We seldom made it back to the 25 yd line, frequently were stopped inside the 20. And there was always the opportunity for a block in the back or holding penalty. The risk wasn't remotely worth the reward, to me it was just selfish and undisciplined play.
Ty Simpson announced for the NFL draft.
Sorry, already posted.
Sorry, already posted.
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Prior to injury, Qua was our best defensive player.
Injury aside he never came close to living up to his reputation. Never more than a flash or two, here or there. If someone spends big money for him, they're really rolling the dice. And that's not sour grapes.
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by Tupelo on 1/4/26 at 6:02 pm to UASports23
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Indians is cooking today in the portal. That Bama win gave them a ton of credibility.
Or, more likely, the Mark Cuban money is paying off. Players are after the green now, nothing else matters very much anymore.
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