Alabama is never going to get over the top with Milroe at Quarterback. Michigan doing just what they did last year, beating their ass bad. He’s just making bad decisions and can’t hold on to the ball. People still think he is the man.
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Some dude named Saban not being there has a lot to do with it as well.
Tide and SEC fan girls better brace themselves for bamer to probably go through a little period where they’re not a perennial 11-12 win dominant juggernaut.
Also, Michigan is a lot tougher than their record. They play ugly gritty ball really well.
Also, Michigan is a lot tougher than their record. They play ugly gritty ball really well.
But by golly he sure put on a show for us at Kroger field last year…he was awesome that game even after suffering an ankle injury in the first half! If anything, uk fans can expect to see real big boy $ec football each Saturday in the fall at krogers field.
Could you imagine having to follow a legend like Saban? Deboer's days were numbered the second he said yes to the job.
He has good games here and there. UK was definitely one of those. I cant imagine being a bama fan and staying on the milroe rollercoaster.
More of the milroe rollercoaster. Huge run. Huge throw. Then almost throws a pick followed by missing two open guys for a td.
He was the only reason they had a chance but also the only reason they didn't get a td
And now it is 16-10
However, this is a very mediocre Michigan team, with very limited offense, and at least one of their AA DTs is sitting out the game (I assume Bama is missing some players as well)
However, this is a very mediocre Michigan team, with very limited offense, and at least one of their AA DTs is sitting out the game (I assume Bama is missing some players as well)
OMG! How is Alabama not up 70-0? They’re from the SEC!
If Bama does somehow lose this game, I’m sure the people who complained so much about the playoff will definitely write articles about how Bama didn’t belong. Surely that would happen. /s
If Bama does somehow lose this game, I’m sure the people who complained so much about the playoff will definitely write articles about how Bama didn’t belong. Surely that would happen. /s
Well Bama has bought players for years under Saban. He was able to horde depth and had voters who would just automatically place his team in a title game or a final four despite not even winning their own division.
No coincidence he bounces and doesn’t have the same success once he lost his advantage with the portal and teams openly being able to financially compete instead of the under the table crap that occurred which Bama went unpunished cause the president of the NCAA was his AD at LSU.
Saban was no different than Coach K or Roy Williams. Dirty AF and never faced the consequences:
DeBoer has been a big winner every stop he's been at. I wouldn't count Bama down and out just yet. BTW, their recruiting class is top 3 last I checked. DeBoer will find a QB that fits his scheme and they'll be back winning 10+ games very quickly, imo. Their fanbase will not accept anything less.
In the NIL era, there will always be the same handful of teams that are competitive every single year with the rest of college football being middle of the pack hoping to have a year where they can win it and then fall back.
Ohio State, Texas, Bama and Georgia should be consistent staples in this model. Oregon will probably rule the west.
Then there’s the rest of us.
Well, if they pretend they play uk each game, easy peasy…
Yeah. That going for it on 4th and 7 with 12min left and down by 6 was an atrocious play calling decision. I mean, if you know you are going for it…pick up some yards on 3rd instead of throwing 2 deep balls.
Should have played for a FG there with that much time left.
How long of a rope will Alabama give this coach? If Alabama does not make the 12 team tournament next year he will be fired. I bet you they go hard after Dabo.
Yep, I think this pretty much ends the "Bama got screwed argument", losing to a mediocre Michigan team without half their defensive starters.
Speaking of Michigan . . . . how the heck did a team with almost no offense beat Ohio State at Columbus and Alabama in a bowl game, where the crowd was heavily Bama? UM only went 6-5 in all their other games.
Outside of the playoff games, you cant take anything away from modern bowl matchups. Even playoff teams lose guys to the portal. Even teams that don't have guys in the portal yet all have guys looking.
Its just a different era.
All that said, bama comfortably wins last year and this year if they had even a competent qb. Instead its a rb with s good arm.
I get what you are saying about all the bowl games and opt outs (Louisville is missing half their offense today) . . . but I gotta disagree about last year's Rose Bowl, Michigan didn't go 15-0 by smoke and mirrors, they had a hell of a team who would have been a big problem for Alabama with most any of their QBs of recent vintage.
There’s a reason Saban stepped aside. The landscape completely shifted and getting rid of Kalen Deboer isn’t going to change that.
Yeah imagine if that team had a QB, probably could’ve lost two less games that way. But defense was solid apparently. At least the few games I watched.
But it’s crazy how the other team knows you can only run and can stack the box and you still win against Ohio State and Bama.
Time will tell on DeBoer. It’ll be almost impossible for him to live up to what Saban did, but at the same time, this year’s team would have probably been a title favorite with consistent QB play. Of course, finding that is easier said than done, but I have seen enough to know that Milroe isn’t the answer. Great all-around athlete, but he doesn’t see the field or consistently deliver an accurate ball, and he really held them back at times, with his poor play being probably the most decisive factor in most of their losses even going back to last year.
Milroe is a running QB and not a drop back passer. He is so misused in Bama. He could run the Veer to perfection
Sec is not very good this year good thing or we might have not won that one game
Michigan was really good. Milroe just killed them then and today. Just amazing how bad he can be.
Fact. However we know hed never go for that. That Anthony Richardson pick made sure of that. That pick really kneecapped college coaches with similar qbs imo.
An exception is sellers at sc. He seems way more willing to embrace his strength.
I can’t imagine that happening with the buyout he has but to miss the playoffs next year, Bama will have to lose four games as you saw how bad they wanted to get them in with three losses. Took a Clemson field goal to knock them out.
That’s how ridiculous the bias is for Bama. They can lose three games, two to bad ones and one being a blowout and still can make a playoff due to their name.
Doubt the coach is the issue. The game has changed. If they’re expecting BCS and four team era dominance in the era of NIL and portal, they’re going to be disappointed for a long time.
Demolished? They gave up a 30 point lead and won after picking off Georgia in the end zone.
Thank you! Bama can never lose in any of these hypothetical matchups people create in deciding why Bama should always be given the benefit of the doubt.
But wudu bout all dat sec speed.... face it guys... demographics have changed. You need athletes but everyone has them. You need a good qb and a well coached team. One read qbs don't cut it in big time college fb any longer.
Money and the unlimited transfer portal has changed a lot more than demographics, Altmeyer would maybe still be at Ole Miss, instead of Illinois, and Quinshon Judkins would still be at Ole Miss as well, instead of Ohio State. But the B10 has always been tough at the top, I never said otherwise, just not quite as good as the SEC most years.
Speaking of OSU, a friend who is a Tennessee alum was grousing yesterday about the ass whipping the Vols took in the playoffs, and with a straight face claimed, "we lost to the best team money can buy". I damn near spit my beer out laughing, come on now, how much is Nico getting paid???
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