🏈 Will CKD ever win a national championship

[bamaledge]

This is not a criticism just a discussion. Will he correct losing to inferior teams or teams he is not supposed to lose to and will he win a national championship at Alabama?

 

[Kamikazi18627]

This is not a criticism just a discussion. Will he correct losing to inferior teams or teams he is not supposed to lose to and will he win a national championship at Alabama?

I think he can. I think he will eventually as long as Bama isn’t too impatient.

 

[alabama mike]

He won three at NAIA University of Sioux Falls. Coaching at the D 1 level is a whole different ballgame and at Alabama is really different. There are only a handful of college football teams that have the expectations every year that Bama and its fan base has. With that said, I am going to have to say that I am going to have to wait and see.

Like you said @bamaledge, he loses some games that he should not lose but what coach hasn't. Coach Saban, Bryant, Hayes, Robinson, Parseghian, Royal, Wilkinson, etc... all lost at one point or another to someone they should not have lost to during the regular season. They key is to not let it happen very often.

Like I said, wait and see. I really hope he does it at Bama.

 

[OldPlayer]

It’s not like turning on a light switch. There are so many parts that you can, and can’t, control. It’s an argument that can’t be answered. Does he have an opportunity? Yes. Will he? TBD.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Its not losses ...it how u respond after losing....
Forget last year...although after some of losses. Bama responded...but that was milroe and company. This is a different..high quality team.....

After fsu..this year....team did outstanding fixing problems....see how vs AU turns out
And into cfps

Will he...Stallings had some rocky roads...just took some time. I see him n Stallings eras kinda moving same direction...

Knowmore year 3-4.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

IMO, if he's at Bama for the next 8-10 years, I feel very comfortable saying he will win at least 1. His record against ranked teams, the fact that he won 4 NAIA national championships in a row, his recruiting ability, his evaluation ability, the $ support he will have at Bama, and what I believe will always be a pretty strong staff.... all data points that indicate big things.

 

[UAgrad93]

Its not losses ...it how u respond after losing....
Forget last year...although after some of losses. Bama responded...but that was milroe and company. This is a different..high quality team.....

After fsu..this year....team did outstanding fixing problems....see how vs AU turns out
And into cfps

Will he...Stallings had some rocky roads...just took some time. I see him n Stallings eras kinda moving same direction...

Knowmore year 3-4.

True with Coach Stallings. After we finished 10-2 my freshman year under Coach Curry, we followed that with 7-5 season 1 under Coach Stallings then 11-1 in '91 before that 13-0 team.
It takes patience and our fanbase struggles with this like no other to be honest. The unparalleled success of Saban likely fanned those flames.

 

[Bama Guy]

I look forward to the day when we debate who was better..... Bear, Saban or DeBoer.

 

[Bama Guy]

Course, I likely will be dead before then.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Course, I likely will be dead before then.

I probably will be. Lol.

 

[tide92]

 

[Kamikazi18627]

True with Coach Stallings. After we finished 10-2 my freshman year under Coach Curry, we followed that with 7-5 season 1 under Coach Stallings then 11-1 in '91 before that 13-0 team.
It takes patience and our fanbase struggles with this like no other to be honest. The unparalleled success of Saban likely fanned those flames.

I agree with your points here.

Bama fans are impatient. Saban didn’t help matter by beating the snot out of everyone for a long time. Which is a good thing, just need fans to come back to earth a little.

 

[sean]

True with Coach Stallings. After we finished 10-2 my freshman year under Coach Curry, we followed that with 7-5 season 1 under Coach Stallings then 11-1 in '91 before that 13-0 team.
It takes patience and our fanbase struggles with this like no other to be honest. The unparalleled success of Saban likely fanned those flames.

I've mentioned that on here and to others in real life when talking to them around the time Saban retired. We were spoiled with all the good years and great years under Saban. And I feared that a lot of fans were thinking we'd just keep trucking along like nothing changed simply because of the players he recruited before he left. But I told them to be wary of that thinking and not get too hopeful.

And to give some more insight into that thinking, someone I know was complaining one time about how Nick Saban had only ever had 1 undefeated season (at that time, that was before 2020). And he was complaining about it, even after we'd just won back-to-back national championships in 2011 and 2012. I said, "If winning a national championship means we have to lose a game or 2 along the way, I'll take that record every year." He was always talking about Saban not having more undefeated seasons. I told him that with his knowledge, he just call Nick Saban and tell him how to run the program so they could be undefeated every single year and win a conference and national championship every year. He didn't like that, and I didn't care. I told him he was unreasonable and that he was using hindsight to judge someone and he wasn't the one on the field playing nor was he getting paid to make the calls. I don't really talk to him anymore.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

After 23 games, I have seen little from Kalen that makes me feel he is a special football coach. I think he is pretty good but not elite. I reserve to get on the Wagon but today I don't see it.

JMO if Nick Saban was 55 years old and just took the Bama job he would struggle like most of these other coaches with the way the game has changed. Pretty much everything the Nick used to get great players to Bama has been reduced to money only.

Time for all folks like me to pack up the jock and socks and play more golf. It was a great run, and I am so lucky to witness these great years.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I've mentioned that on here and to others in real life when talking to them around the time Saban retired. We were spoiled with all the good years and great years under Saban. And I feared that a lot of fans were thinking we'd just keep trucking along like nothing changed simply because of the players he recruited before he left. But I told them to be wary of that thinking and not get too hopeful.

And to give some more insight into that thinking, someone I know was complaining one time about how Nick Saban had only ever had 1 undefeated season (at that time, that was before 2020). And he was complaining about it, even after we'd just won back-to-back national championships in 2011 and 2012. I said, "If winning a national championship means we have to lose a game or 2 along the way, I'll take that record every year." He was always talking about Saban not having more undefeated seasons. I told him that with his knowledge, he just call Nick Saban and tell him how to run the program so they could be undefeated every single year and win a conference and national championship every year. He didn't like that, and I didn't care. I told him he was unreasonable and that he was using hindsight to judge someone and he wasn't the one on the field playing nor was he getting paid to make the calls. I don't really talk to him anymore.

People like that are just unserious. They equate real life football to video games. Would be like complaining that Greg Maddux never threw a perfect game.

 

[MunchyOs]

If Saban had retired in the pre-NIL and portal time, CKD probably could have won a national championship. All he would have had to do is jump in the car and drive. Much like how Dennis Erickson did in 1989 and 1991 at Miami. However, in this modern time....I dunno

 

[24and7]

Possible.. BUT WE WILL NEVER BE UNDEFEATED..The 9 game thing will be tough..

 

[rammerjammer]

If Saban had retired in the pre-NIL and portal time, CKD probably could have won a national championship. All he would have had to do is jump in the car and drive. Much like how Dennis Erickson did in 1989 and 1991 at Miami. However, in this modern time....I dunno

I agree. Same with Larry Coker at Miami or Les Miles following Saban at LSU. NIL has changed the game drastically. Too an extent it has brought parity, but not in a good way, IMO. Also, I think Saban would have coached a few more years if not for NIL and transfer portal. I think if the transfer portal was not such shit show that it would have been enough for Saban to coach a few more years. Coulda, woulda, shoulda.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I agree. Same with Larry Coker at Miami or Les Miles following Saban at LSU. NIL has changed the game drastically. Too an extent it has brought parity, but not in a good way, IMO. Also, I think Saban would have coached a few more years if not for NIL and transfer portal. I think if the transfer portal was not such shit show that it would have been enough for Saban to coach a few more years. Coulda, woulda, shoulda.

Said it before, but there was a reason Bama was supposed to be playing in West Virginia next season....

 

[PurlJam]

Right now I would be good with not giving up at least 1 explosive play on defense and Ty not fumbling on a sack.