🏈 What's next for Alabama after embarrassing Rose Bowl loss? Worst postseason effort warrants sweeping change

[mando]

Agree completely on not apologizing for demanding excellence the issue lies in what some consider excellence imo. Making the playoffs and playing competitively in every game is pretty close to excellence imo. Some would only say excellence is winning the NC every other year. I don't think Saban could repeat his run with the current rules, or lack thereof, of today's football. I'm sure everyone defines excellence a little differently and that gives us something to talk about during the off season.

You are describing results, I am talking about excellence in how you do prepare and how you play. With that it goes both ways, Bama made the playoffs and won 11 games but how they played was far below excellence. That is why I do not consider this years as excellence.

At bama how you do it matters. There have been wins that I did not feel good about and there have been losses I felt ok about like the first game about OU this year (btw I never feel good after a loss).

 

[Krimson]

You are describing results, I am talking about excellence in how you do prepare and how you play. With that it goes both ways, Bama made the playoffs and won 11 games but how they played was far below excellence. That is why I do not consider this years as excellence.

At bama how you do it matters. There have been wins that I did not feel good about and there have been losses I felt ok about like the first game about OU this year (btw I never feel good after a loss).

I get what you're saying and agreed with that part earlier. The epic ass kickings of the last two years definitely didn't embody excellence. It happened a couple times while Saban was here but when it did it was unexpected. I never feel comfortable about how Bama is going to play now, too much inconsistency which I have a hard time with. I don't really have a problem with losing to a team that's as or nearly as talented but looking like a high school team playing a college team makes me wonder what's going on.

That being said, results usually follow closely to how you prepare and how you play. There's almost always a game or two in a season where a team figures out how not to lose but it's an ugly win or a game like the first Oklahoma game where they did about everything they could to keep themselves from winning but there shouldn't be the multiple shit the bed games yearly.