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phil4bama
| Favorite team: | Alabama  |
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re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by phil4bama on 1/17/26 at 12:28 pm to crimsontater
Brooks has been dissected pretty well.
I haven’t seen much about the Fields IOL kid from Ole Miss. What’s the scoop?
I haven’t seen much about the Fields IOL kid from Ole Miss. What’s the scoop?
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re: Kap & Nunez
Posted by phil4bama on 1/17/26 at 10:58 am to Amarillo Tide
Counter argument: Kapilovic didn’t come here with CKD. He should have no loyalty to him. Ditto Nunez and ditto Ballou. If you were CKD, would you keep coaches you didn’t really know and in essence, bet your future on them when their performance has been atrocious and obvious to everyone?
Even if you are being a nice guy and giving them a chance to line up another position, that conversation should have occurred right after the Indiana game and time should be running out soon.
Even if you are being a nice guy and giving them a chance to line up another position, that conversation should have occurred right after the Indiana game and time should be running out soon.
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by phil4bama on 1/17/26 at 10:48 am to Panthers4life
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Omg the whining of wanting coaches be gone. Y'all just can't understand the logic sense behind it. You can't fire the coach during the portal. Now that it closed last night, give it a week or so. Fans like this are embarrassing at time because they want to have it their way.
I DO understand the need to keep Kapilovic until the portal closed. News flash, the portal closed at midnight and we appear to have addressed our needs at OL. So let’s not pussyfoot around and let other schools get a head start on hiring coaches we may have targeted. Kap should have his walking papers by Sunday night at the latest.
Why is Ballou still there? He had little if anything to do with pulling guys out of the portal. There is a very suspicious pattern of Alabama getting softer and less physical every year under his tenure. Strength and conditioning for the off season has already started. He should have already been replaced but it’s not too late. IMHO, keeping him would be a mistake, but I’m not in charge. But this is just a message board. I am allowed to express my opinion. Lord knows there’s plenty of posts and posters on here with more outlandish ideas than mine.
Lighten up, Francis, and go change your tampon.
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You're getting downvoted by the by the rah rah bootlickers but you're absolutely correct. A LT as large and athletic is Proctor is should be the cornerstone of a dominant running game, especially in short yardage situations. Think of the dominant LTs we've had through the last 15 years that were absolute bulldozers in the running game. Proctor just isn't that guy, be can't move anyone off of the ball consistently. That fact isn't up for debate.
Agreed. Seems a lot of posters on here are STILL blinded by his potential and ignore his production. He had the physical tools to be among Alabama’s elite LT’s of all time. But he never connected that to desire and a mean streak. If you could have grafted Dickerson’s mean streak into Proctor, you would have had one of the top 3 LT’s ever at Bama.
It concerns me a bit that Brooks bio sounds almost identical to Proctor. Maybe he is just to be a depth piece/short yardage specialist this year as they work on his fundamentals.
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by phil4bama on 1/17/26 at 10:19 am to LucedaleTider
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Say what you will but bama is a top tier developmental program for future transfers to OSU and the Texas schools. Kidding … sorta
Not sure I want Bama to be the Birmingham Barons or Stallions of college football.
We still haven’t addressed the 2 biggest needs for the OL: Kapilovic and Ballou.
Is DeBoer going to double down on these two and bet his job on them?
Is DeBoer going to double down on these two and bet his job on them?
A sobering article about television’s view of the current state of affairs.
Posted by phil4bama on 1/17/26 at 9:14 am
LINK
This article is a scary look into the television C suite about college football. It’s clear evidence that they don’t get it. Their own bottom line is blinding them to the danger the sport’s future viability is. Any changes to the current anarchy will be fought by the networks who think everything is fine.
This article is a scary look into the television C suite about college football. It’s clear evidence that they don’t get it. Their own bottom line is blinding them to the danger the sport’s future viability is. Any changes to the current anarchy will be fought by the networks who think everything is fine.
Friday is almost over and I haven’t heard of anyone getting a pink slip today, unfortunately.
re: Currently sitting in 50th at On3
Posted by phil4bama on 1/16/26 at 10:28 pm to DD_Rolltide
Did we pull Brooks out of the portal to be a situational short yardage player? Will he take over Proctor’s package of plays? His role isn’t quite clear to me.
I mean Brooks looks impressive but we just had a guy like that at LT that had all the potential in the world in Proctor and edge guys frequently just blew past him. Is Brooks that agile? I’m looking forward to seeing the deep dive analysis on him.
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by phil4bama on 1/16/26 at 6:59 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq
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NEW: Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss is suing the NCAA in Mississippi state court for a 6th season of eligibility??
To me, this a large part of the problem. Anytime anyone in college sports doesn’t like an NCAA decision that goes against them, they lawyer up and sue. You voluntarily chose to play a sport under the governance of the NCAA, nobody held a gun to your head. Therefore you implicitly agreed to abide by their rules. If you don’t like their decision, leave the NCAA! Suing a voluntary organization is bullshite. I do not like the NCAA based on their past history of selective enforcement and bullying, but they are the governing body of college athletics and if you are a member school, you and your athletes agreed to be overseen by them. I would love to see Chambliss get another year but you’ve used up your eligibility, bud. Go to the NFL. We are where we are because schools won’t even agree to sign on to the court approved settlement to put some order and guardrails on this chaos. Either get on board with a governing body or get out! This anarchy is destroying college athletics with a quickness!
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They've completely rebuilt that offense in one portal cycle.
And that is happening in a few more schools every cycle. If you’ve got the cash and the playing time and the ability to spot real talent, you can absolutely turn a program around in one or two portal cycles. It just made Kiffin an obscene amount of money after performing that very thing in Oxford. Brent Key did it in Atlanta, and Cignetti in Bloomington.
The key piece is a top level QB. Then protect him and get a RB to balance the offense. You can win a lot of games just doing that. Ole Miss was one play away from playing for a natty with a defense that was vintage Golding dogshit but they had all the key pieces.
That’s one thing that concerns me about our direction with CKD. He’s marching to the beat of his own drummer and going against the current trend in constructing a competitive roster. Maybe his way will work as well, I dunno. But some schools think they have deciphered the code to the portal and the results are backing it up. That’s a huge reason Miami is throwing stupid money at every QB that is leaving their current school if they are good. They don’t have another Carson Beck or Ward to plug and play behind center.
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1. Admittedly, this one is more personal in nature. My dad is retired disabled military. Tubberville has done a lot of grandstanding and feet dragging and politicized military healthcare and medicine(and broader military issues). He proses it as “stopping veterans and taxpayers from being defrauded” but what that actually means is denying claims or claims taking a ridiculously long time to be approved. He championed getting rid of VA “bloating” but it’s made getting healthcare for veterans much more difficult. 1st hand experience.
I love the part about VA bloating. My wife works in VA healthcare at a Veterans nursing home. This VA region has 30% less pharmacists than they did 2 years ago and they are told they can’t hire. Other healthcare professions are in similar straits. The VA has already burned through their allotted OT hours for this fiscal year due to the labor shortages and are requesting more to no avail. They are doing the same amount of work or more with a third less people. That’s why the OT is gone. Morale is in the shitter. The employees benefits were pretty good and a selling point until this year. Their insurance costs were made drastically more expensive and choices of insurers were reduced. And at the end of the day, the person that suffers is the veteran who can’t get decent care in a timely manner. Doug Collins, head of the VA, is a political POS. Russ Vought, director of OMB, is a bigger POS that should be used for target practice. Their ultimate goal is to set the VA up for failure so that they can “privatize” it and sell it to one of their billionaire buddies to run for a profit. So they gut it, then complain the VA can’t do the job they are supposed to.
There’s a lot wrong with the VA system as there is with nearly all large government run entities. But care has been improving in recent years and most of the frontline healthcare providers care about who they are serving and do their best. If you think it’s bad now, just let them privatize it and see how shitty it gets. I’ve worked in healthcare for my entire adult life. The only thing worse than socialized medicine is for-profit medicine. Big insurance and big pharma frick Americans over all day every day. I don’t have all the answers but I can damn sure identify the problem. Screwing over our veterans is about as unpatriotic and wrong as I can imagine but that’s what is happening; they are being used as pawns for political gain.
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That's a $50 million GUARANTEED contract with over $30 million signing bonus. Even if he slid a couple spots...what in the freakin world is Oregon giving him to return??? Seems like a truly terrible decision...plus the 27 QB class is going to be deeper.
My understanding is he didn’t want to go to the Jets. Based the whole decision on who had the 2nd pick in the draft and he didn’t want to play there. So he’s going back to Nike U. I’m certain he has a nice paycheck waiting for him. It won’t be $50 mil guaranteed but he’s not going to go hungry either.
re: College Football has become so fricking stupid.
Posted by phil4bama on 1/12/26 at 10:57 pm to Globetrotter747
They USED TO represent your university and most even had pride in the jersey they wore. But then we let money and big business infiltrate the sport and they have ruined it for their own gain. I have been watching Alabama football for over 50 years. Most of it has been very enjoyable and engrossing. I never missed a Bama game either on TV or the radio. The players cared about giving their all and they cared about winning. Most of them weren’t going pro so they played for the love of the game and their school. You could only transfer one time without a waiver from the NCAA, and you had to sit out a year if you did so you could count transfers on one hand. Players got a degree because most of them were going to need it. The traditions and pageantry and rivalries were embraced as part of the fabric of the sport. Regionalism was strong. You only got to see your team on TV 3 or 4 times a year if you were lucky and rooted for the blue bloods. If you were an Ole Miss or a South Carolina fan, you would only get to watch your team on TV if they were playing a blue blood, usually only once a year. It all worked and the sport was fun. It remained fun when ABC’s monopoly on college football was broken and suddenly the number of televised games exploded. You could watch college football from 11am until past midnight on Saturdays. The bowls were relevant as they decided who won the natty.
Then about the time expansion started was the beginning of the end of the sport and since then it’s been pretty much all downhill until now we are left with this commercialized, bastardized version of professional college football where everyone is just looking for a buck, nobody cares who or what they are playing for. There is no loyalty, no school pride, rivalries are thrown aside and your roster changes by about 50% every year, as new mercenaries are brought in to replace the old ones who have moved on to a bigger paycheck, either in the NFL or in Texas. Championships aren’t won on the field or in recruiting, they are won in the NIL collective. I no longer care to spend my Saturdays glued to the TV as the sport is unwatchable. I’ll never understand why we had to go and kill the game I loved so much.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” should be the epitaph on college football’s headstone. We fixed it to death.
Then about the time expansion started was the beginning of the end of the sport and since then it’s been pretty much all downhill until now we are left with this commercialized, bastardized version of professional college football where everyone is just looking for a buck, nobody cares who or what they are playing for. There is no loyalty, no school pride, rivalries are thrown aside and your roster changes by about 50% every year, as new mercenaries are brought in to replace the old ones who have moved on to a bigger paycheck, either in the NFL or in Texas. Championships aren’t won on the field or in recruiting, they are won in the NIL collective. I no longer care to spend my Saturdays glued to the TV as the sport is unwatchable. I’ll never understand why we had to go and kill the game I loved so much.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” should be the epitaph on college football’s headstone. We fixed it to death.
Spot on. The only thing holding the Texans back is CJ Stroud has gotten very timid and indecisive. I only saw him push the ball downfield 4 or 5 times during this game. Everything was inside 10 yards, and happy feet!!
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by phil4bama on 1/12/26 at 6:56 pm to samson73103
I guess I’m sorta in between you two. My first Bama quarterback is Jeff’s older brother, Gary Rutledge.
re: OT: How about a 16- or a 24-team playoff?
Posted by phil4bama on 1/11/26 at 11:22 pm to InkStainedWretch
How about we fix the friggin sport first? No need inviting 4 more teams to just be whipping boys for the Texas schools, Oregon, and whoever else decides to break out the bottomless checkbook next season.
Too many players bleeding green these days.
If Cignetti is such a flash in the pan, how come he has won at every stop as a head coach? As he said in his introductory speech at IU, “I win. Google me.” This guy didn’t show up at Indiana and catch lightning in a bottle. Maybe Byrne should have been paying a little more attention to Saban disciples before he got handed a coaching search. It’s been said before and I’ll say it again. The same things win that have always won: discipline, execution, running the ball, and defense. That’s why Indiana is going to roll into Hard Rock stadium and manhandle Miami just like they did everyone else this year. It might not be a 30 point beatdown, but they will be hoisting the trophy.
It’s not IU’s players, it’s the way Cignetti has prepared them that is making the difference.
It’s not IU’s players, it’s the way Cignetti has prepared them that is making the difference.
Cig was up big late in the game and was still bitching at our autistic SEC referees to call holding on Oregon. Does that sound like a coach that is soft? He is an exact duplicate of Saban when he preaches about playing every play for 60 minutes to a standard. We ought to fire our wuss of a coach tomorrow and hand Cig a blank check to come to Tuscaloosa
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