College Football 2023-2024

[HalfSmokes]

Valid reason

[Natsinpwc]

Damn good reason.

A friend and I spent most of the Temple-Pitt game one year in Philly sitting right behind the Pitt Golden Girls. 

[HalfSmokes]

My roommate gave up being a shot putter to be a pyramid base. People made fun of him until they realized what he spent all game doing.

[GburgNatsFan]

Steel balls or... tough choice.

My roommate gave up being a shot putter to be a pyramid base. People made fun of him until they realized what he spent all game doing.

[imref]

Much better game than last year. Michigan is just too good on both sides of the ball. Congrats Blue!

[bluestreak]

Go Blue! I could only swing one college football trip this year, so I wasn’t in Houston, but, man, what a season!!!

[Natsinpwc]

Go Blue! I could only swing one college football trip this year, so I wasn’t in Houston, but, man, what a season!!!

Congrats. Well done.

[GburgNatsFan]

Go Blue! I could only swing one college football trip this year, so I wasn’t in Houston, but, man, what a season!!!

Way to represent the B1G.

[Count Walewski]

I hope that, somewhere, the guy who became famous as a meme image after the game where Michigan's punter botched a punt and led to a Michigan State win, is enjoying this.

[aspenbubba]

Go Blue! I could only swing one college football trip this year, so I wasn’t in Houston, but, man, what a season!!!

Don't want to make you envious but my granddaughter was taken to the game by her father.  ALLEZ BLEU!!!

[Count Walewski]

Nick Saban is retiring after 7 national championships

https://theathletic.com/5193220/2024/01/10/nick-saban-retiring-alabama/

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Nick Saban is retiring after 7 national championships

https://theathletic.com/5193220/2024/01/10/nick-saban-retiring-alabama/

been rumored. It'll be interesting to see who they get. Harbaugh? O'Brien? Who is good recruiter?

[imref]

Spurrier?

[Natsinpwc]

Senator Tommy Tuberville.

[varoadking]

Matt Patricia...

[Count Walewski]

been rumored. It'll be interesting to see who they get. Harbaugh? O'Brien? Who is good recruiter?

I'm unironically for giving Lane Kiffin the job. To me Lane Kiffin checks off all the boxes Alabama should be looking for:

- can recruit and build teams in the NIL/Portal era
- showed as Alabama's OC that he can win in the SEC
- showed as Alabama's OC that he can bring new ideas into a traditional offense without destroying Bama's identity
- won at FAU and Ole Miss, just wrapped up the best season Ole Miss has had since the 1960's

Yeah he's goofy and Tweets a lot of weird stuff but that didn't hurt him the last time he was in Tuscaloosa. Choo choo, ALL ABOARD the Lane Train.

Dan Lanning would be good too. I don't see Kirby leaving Georga and I like Kiffin's post-Bama OC work more than Sark's post-Bama OC work. Harbaugh's power comes from drinking fresh milk and he needs to be in a dairy production zone like California or the Upper Midwest, I don't see him working out at Bama. I'm surprised at how much traction Dabo Swinney is getting. The game has passed him by and he would be a disaster in the NIL/Portal era. A time of rapid change in the game is a terrible time to hire a traditionalist.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Lanning was one of the guys Paul Finebaum mentioned on Morning Joe. SI reporting he's already in Tuscaloosa. He also thinks DeMEco Ryan is the other strong candidate. He says that they would be ahead of Sarkisian and Kiffin.

[HalfSmokes]

Lanning was one of the guys Paul Finebaum mentioned on Morning Joe. SI reporting he's already in Tuscaloosa. He also thinks DeMEco Ryan is the other strong candidate. He says that they would be ahead of Sarkisian and Kiffin.

There were reports that players were told there would be a new coach within 72 hours. They have to be fast because the portal opens for players to transfer out when a coach leaves, but it does not open for players to transfer in. You know other programs are going to try to poach away guys based on the uncertainty

https://247sports.com/college/transfer-portal/Article/can-alabama-players-enter-the-transfer-portal-what-you-need-to-know-after-nick-sabans-retirement-225076354/

[Natsinpwc]

Life moves on. Looks like all three should have left a couple years ago. 

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Life moves on. Looks like all three should have left a couple years ago. 

we've got an NFL thread, but what I'd say about BB is that he thought he had a good enough guy in Mac Jones. Rookie year, playoffs and some big wins. Next year, big mistake in figuring out to replace McDaniels and the OL coach Scarnecchia. Part of the problem was, they could figure out how much was the CF that the offensive coaching staff was vs. how much it was Jones showing who he was. This year was the tell on Jones and the rest of the offense.

[Natsinpwc]

we've got an NFL thread, but what I'd say about BB is that he thought he had a good enough guy in Mac Jones. Rookie year, playoffs and some big wins. Next year, big mistake in figuring out to replace McDaniels and the OL coach Scarnecchia. Part of the problem was, they could figure out how much was the CF that the offensive coaching staff was vs. how much it was Jones showing who he was. This year was the tell on Jones and the rest of the offense.

I’m not sure when he took over personnel decisions but just seems they have not kept up talent wise with the better teams. Especially on offense. Brady masked most of the problem when there.

[Count Walewski]

Lanning is the clear favorite in the betting markets:

https://twitter.com/TJ_Pittinger/status/1745450270338007536

My boy Kiffin at #2 though.

[HalfSmokes]

Life moves on. Looks like all three should have left a couple years ago. 

In 2020 Saban won the national championship. In 2021, he lost in the championship game. 2022, a massive disappointment, ended with two losses and a Sugar Bowl win. This year, he still made the playoffs. That doesn't seem like a coach leaving because the game passed him by. I think Alabama, will be luck to even replicate a down 2022 any time soon

[Natsinpwc]

In 2020 Saban won the national championship. In 2021, he lost in the championship game. 2022, a massive disappointment, ended with two losses and a Sugar Bowl win. This year, he still made the playoffs. That doesn't seem like a coach leaving because the game passed him by. I think Alabama, will be luck to even replicate a down 2022 any time soon

I don’t think the game has passed him by but they clearly have not been as dominant since 2020 as they were before then. Better to go out in too IMO. 

[Count Walewski]

There were signs that Bama was behind the curve on the way things work now with NIL and the portal. Saban was the best recruiter in the land because he could offer kids the single most reliable way of becoming NFL millionaires. Today, in a world where kids can become millionaires without ever reaching the NFL, that is just slightly less compelling of an offer. If you're a hot prospect, you have literally never failed on a football field in your life before, and you are confident that you will make it in the NFL no matter what you do because you're 18 and feel invincible, do you come to Alabama to work hard and Trust the Process or do you come to Miami to party on booster money?

Lane Kiffin gets this new reality. Lanning does too. Dabo, no. Saban, to me, looks like he grudingly got it (the same way he grudlingly eventually got huddle-up offenses and RPOs) but didn't really want to keep doing it. Maybe he also saw his good friend BB circling the drain and decided he didn't want things ending that way for him.

2023 might be one of Saban's best actual coaching jobs because the team looked awful early in the year and then won the SEC title. How did they get that good between Week 3 and championship week? Coaching probably had a lot to do with it.