I have been saying this also and the answer to your question is chances are low. Man have taken the opposite position. I think CKD will do well but it takes time in his system. No one expected the D to be so bad that is for sure. After the UGA game two things disturbed me, 1) nobody on the coaching staff including CK talked about how poorly the D played in the 2nd half and 2) Their was still a lot of talk about UGA. Go watch the CKD show and that was Wednesday. A bit into the call before VU is talked about.
| FTBL The Good, The Bad and The Ugly vs. Vandy?
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JoseyWalesTheOutlaw
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The 1962 game....it was raining at home and I was listening to Mom's Gray and Pink Philco radio. Near the end I couldn't take Bama was going to lose to I went into the backyard those last few minutes and when I returned to the radio we had lost. I was 12. If you read up on that game Coach Bryant did some stupid play calling with Joe throwing several picks. It happens.
Kalen has chosen the path of appeasement to his roster. The days of hard azz coaching are done due to the prick recruiting pool of players. That pool is for every school not just Bama. The bad news is that pool will get worse each year. The Bigger issue is how long will the high dollar booster continue to send their bucks to the schools having seen the product they're paying for.
I am 74 and it's been a great ride.
Justneedme81
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Wannabe who claims to know players through recruiting. He posted a pic of himself with Ryan Williams last night. He claims to be in the know. He had a show which he got fired. He's worse than Coach Smith ... The one with annoying voice.
Kamikazi18627
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Defense. That's the bad and ugly. Gonna have to change quickly or we will be looking at several more losses.
Rest assured, other teams are putting in true option plays against us.
Rest assured, other teams are putting in true option plays against us.
Justneedme81
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Not really. It's not easy to install that in one week.
This reminded me of Coach Bryant statement about "the same things win that always won everything else is a bunch of excuses". My connection with your statement is that hard azz coaching fits into that same things win category so CKD will have to find a way to do so otherwise we will revisit this several more times this year. It is ok to be a players coach but at some point you have to say this is not a democracy and this is not how we are going to do things arround here. I saw a video with CKD leaving the field and he was having to go over and tell the players to get into the locker room. They were getting chippy. If that is the culture CKD is creating this is just the beginning of the decay. I do not think it is but he will need to make it absolutely clear this is not how we are going to do things. He may need to make an example of a player or two that are supposed to be leaders on the team. I personally believe that you cannot win the # of games he has w/o knowing how to manage this but I have been concerned with some of the things I have seen. I have been telling myself there is more than one way to win and if he wins I should adjust my perception of those things.
Needs some big time accountability for the coaches and players. They need to be challenged and not coddled. BTW I would have said the same thing after the 2nd half of the UGA game. It is about how you prepare and how you play not just wins and losses. What wil CKD allow?
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Listened as well. Will never forget John Forney’s words as 3rd quarter ended, “the 3rd quarter is history, Alabama leads 16-0”.
Good:sec shorts is going to definitely be good this week
This was out really quick after the game!!!!
Bill Newton blocked them, ball bounced to David Langner who never broke stride to end zone. Greg Gant, the UA punter, told me after the first block, he asked Coach Bryant if he could throw to a wide open receiver instead of punting. He was a HS QB. Coach Bryant, “punt the damn ball” and walked off. Note on David Langer, coached with a guy who was a manager at *aU at the time. Said Langer would lock some of the managers or kids hanging around the complex in lockers and piss on them.
This was out really quick after the game!!!!
Well you might as well laugh at it.... Getting beat by Vandy deserves to be laughed at and let them enjoy their day.
Justneedme81
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well..... It helped.
Man, when I had to turn to my buddy yesterday, 1 minute left on the clock after the last 1st down and utter the words... "let's go man, they're about to rush the field, I don't wanna get caught in that shit..." (we were right by the Vandy student section), it was a lowly feeling. By the time I got to my truck ~5 minutes later, I was all good and completely focused on dinner, but damn. What an experience for my first ever visit to their stadium.
Turned the TV off before Moore threw his tantrum. I saw it later on X and I’m embarrassed!!! That shit should NEVER happen!! You want to pitch a damn fit! How about doing it at halftime or in the huddle while Vandy of all people is caving your shit in? Inexcusable!!!
Yeah I shut it off before that as well, only to see it all over this morning….
Rolltide24
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I hear you. Me and my son were on the Vandy (shaded) side. I told him we’re not leaving until the horn sounds. I learned long ago, better that than leave early and get ridiculed on the way out. We got down to the bottom and folks were scaling the wall, we briefly considered joining and going and encouraging some of our players. Some were very slow to head to locker room. May be our only chance to ever rush a field. But I figured, with my luck yesterday, we’d somehow get reprimanded.
The funny thing was… clearly a lot more Bama attendees than Vandy. So you wonder, how did the field get so packed… When we were trying to exit the gates, there were huge swarms of people flooding into the stadium just to rush the field. The security guards half tried to stop them but realized their efforts were in vain. I’m talking many hundreds of people/students flooding in.
Good- Vandy was 12 of 18 on 3rd down and had no 3 and outs. Credit Coach Lea, his staff and players.
Bad- continued mental mistakes.
Ugly- the defense.
Bad- continued mental mistakes.
Ugly- the defense.
LOL, We could have seen this Press Release tomorrow morning from the SEC Office: "It has been determined by video evidence that two fans representing the The University of Alabama also rushed the field Saturday evening at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville at the conclusion of the Vanderbilt win over Alabama. Due to this, the $100,000 fine imposed on Vanderbilt Athletics, which would have been payable to the Alabama Athletic Department, has been nullified."
We saw the same thing, Vandy students rushing into the stadium... But buddy, I got out of that parking deck like a champ and was sitting on the patio at Five Points Pizza so fast you'd have thought I had a police escort.
Justneedme81
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Here's the clip linked in the article for those interested.
2 things...
1- That was a pretty brutal takedown by Harris on the situation, with a little ground and pound action for good measure. In my head, as he was showing the rings, I could hear Mike Goldberg yelling, "It is all over!"
2- Serious question here... Does Mike Rodak contribute any original content to the world wide web, or is at all quote mining pulled from every corner of the Alabama athletics universe? That's literally all I ever see him tweet out.
