🏈 DeBoer's future at Alabama and the most likely path ahead (from my perspective)...

UAgrad93 said:
Blame the shutdown back in ‘20. @alabama mike can vouch with me on this. Those kids were set back 3-5 years in their development. Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok became their way of life and gave them the acceptance they desired. When Saban started replacing the roster with these younger ones, they didn’t understand adversity or pressure. All of the social media platforms always told them how great they were. Coming out of COVID, many administrators chose to cater to the fragile egos because of the “trauma” they had experienced. I was too far along in the game to change my way of thinking so I retired.
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True @UAgrad93. I went back to work 3 weeks ago and the Covid kids are so immature and needy. My grandson, now a 6th grader was in K when the crap hit the fan. He missed 9 weeks of his K year and almost his entire 1st grade year. He did well bc his mom and dad teach, I’m in administration and my sister in law, a retired teacher taught him. Many didn’t have that luxury. Today, we deal with so many kids suffering from PTSD, depression, anxiety and other psychological issues that we never dealt with, number wise that we are today. So, half the school grades, 6-12 and college kids are dealing with this. Many not very well. It’s a very fine line to walk with all these emotions.
 
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alabama mike said:
True @UAgrad93. I went back to work 3 weeks ago and the Covid kids are so immature and needy. My grandson, now a 6th grader was in K when the crap hit the fan. He missed 9 weeks of his K year and almost his entire 1st grade year. He did well bc his mom and dad teach, I’m in administration and sister in law, a retired teacher taught him. Many didn’t have that luxury. Today, we deal with some many kids suffering from PTSD, depression, anxiety and other psychological issues that we never dealt with, number wise that we are today. So, half the school grades, 6-12 and college kids are dealing with this. Many not very well. It’s a very fine line to walk with all these emotions.
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I would think the smart devices used as entertainment baby sitters has a lot to to with the things you are describing as well.
 
TerryP said:
It feels important to say, "no, it doesn't." I don't consider you an idiot; the thought you just had? Esshh.
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If someone does something stupid and you call it stupid, you're calling them stupid. May not mean it overall, but if it's your only occurance with them just say, you go away from it calling them stupid.

I get what you're saying, someone can be stupid, but not be stupid. But it begs to question if in fact they are.
 
We mentioned this culture change all offseason. And I’ve mentioned that when CKD was hired I had the thought that he was pretty much going to have to totally rebuild the program - I can’t quite put it into words “why” I felt that way, but I feel its pretty accurate.

How long does it take to “strip down” a dynasty, and rebuild a contender? Certainly long than one season and one game. I think maybe all the recruits we’ve brought in can give us a false belief that we were further along in that “rebuild”. There’s certain to be bumps and storms along the way…and all the outside noise while walking through the storm - almost makes it seem impossible.

I’d say we all probably hoped that we were further along in this process than we had hoped - I’m thinking if you take emotions out of your decision making, you’d want to assess where the program is at after three seasons.

This roster still has CNS players on it left and right. Ty, for one, is not a CKD guy….but he’s probably the best equipped for the job right now.

I still fully believe CKD is a good coach. Is he the right guy to walk through this storm? Only time will tell, but make no mistake about it…it was damn near an impossible task that he took on.
 
TerryP said:
It didn't last year. Out of the five teams who did just that last season only one had success, Arizona State. (Colorado had 13 or 14 more new guys. AZ St. ranked third.)
This season if we looked at the top ten in portal additions for this season none of them are ranked. (FSU was 12th, IU is #11.)

Ole Miss at #17 has the best shot at the playoffs in my view.
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I'm not sure where you are getting your info. Ole Miss, Oregon, Texas, Mizzou, South Carolina, Syracuse all had top ten portal rankings last year and all had good seasons last year.

This year LSU, Ole Miss, Oregon, Miami, Auburn, Missouri, Auburn have top 10 portal classes and looked pretty dang good week one.
 
Slickmullet said:
I'm not sure where you are getting your info. Ole Miss, Oregon, Texas, Mizzou, South Carolina, Syracuse all had top ten portal rankings last year and all had good seasons last year.

This year LSU, Ole Miss, Oregon, Miami, Auburn, Missouri, Auburn have top 10 portal classes and looked pretty dang good week one.
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You're looking at rankings. I'm looking at the numbers of snaps and experience.
 
Slickmullet said:
Where are you seeing that information?
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A simple search probably through Google. The article was published last week but I can't remember which media outlet off the top of my head. I'm thinking I linked it here. Although, it might have been in a text message last weekend to a friend. I'll look (both for the link and my phone...gotta today.)

Keywords were along the lines of "2025>transfer>portal>additions"... something like that.
 
@Slickmullet dawned on me. I read the report Thursday, last week. It was the evening I was watching the Boise St vs USF game (thinking about this week with UF.) I watched that on ESPN so my gut tells me it was something they said that led me on the search. It's likely it was an ESPN report given what I recall right now...

I'm a thinkin' ...

EDIT: Geez...I'll go to the car and get my phone. I need to run up to the store real quick anyway.
 

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