I'd be more in favor of teaching the high 4 or 5* (depending on who you ask) TE with WR speed how to block on running plays, but maybe that's just me. Helm will still get plenty of snaps, don't worry about that.
If there is any fire to the smoke that Deboer pushed Sayin out and Saban didn't step in and try to stop it, you may be right. Having said that I'd think little Nicky is intelligent enough to know that what he's accomplished over the past 17 years is unlikely to be replicated anywhere...even Bama.
It's really starting to look like Saban had the hubris to believe as long as he announced that he would still be around the program (similar to what bag o' dicks Bob did when he passed the keys to little Lincoln) and have an office in the stadium that it wouldn't matter who Bama hired, and losses would be minimal. I don't think it's lack of faith in Deboer so much as it is knowing that it takes a new coaching staff 3-4 years on average to get things going...and nobody wants to be part of a painful rebuild. Times have changed...a lot of these kids have agents and other outside people pointing out these things and giving advice. And yes that can even include the ones coming straight out of HS..especially if they're considered the #1 QB
There's no question he's a good coach, but I think making the leap to a program like Bama directly after the goat retired will ruin him. Maybe I'm wrong and he eventually builds back and gets the juggernaut rolling again, but I have serious doubts.
Do these mental midgets truly think Texas has been broke for over 100 years and suddenly won the lottery in 2023? Using their logic it should be an anomaly for any team other than Texas to win the national championship since apparently all it takes is dropping huge amounts of money in front of teenage-early 20's males. That's the old SEC/ aggy business model. Is there any way we can get gomer to drop the "Texas" from their name so our mentally challenged conference mates don't get the two programs confused?
We'll do a steady climb up that list in the next few years. Those numbers are the consequences of wandering the desert for more than a decade combined with LHN being impossible to get for many. Oh, and almost forgot: shitty Midwest opponents nobody cares to watch no matter who they're playing. I guarantee more eyes will be watching us play the Vandys, SCars and Miss States of the world than ever tuned in for Kansas, K-State, Iowa State etc.
Guarantee the Lambos and Aston Martins arent hanging out in apartment parking lots where these guys live. Special occasions only, and only if cameras will be around. Take this fwiw, but I've heard that in most cases the car isn't even leased out to the player...they consider it a dealership demo and extended test drive sort of thing. Of course the dealership picks up the insurance tab, can you imagine the premium on an Aventador driven by an 18-19 yo male?
He got the "last ride" part correct at least. I mean there's always arena, indoor football and whatever refried-tarded challenger to the NFL pops up every 3 years give or take, so maybe it won't be his last ride?
So did Bru McCoy, but he at least lasted a week or so. Too bad we don't have Tennessee on the schedule next season, he might actually play in every game for the first time at any school.
12 is a good number, any more just waters things down and makes non-playoff bowls even more irrelevant if that's possible. That said, the auto bid for "best of G5" needs to go. Some years it may be legit, but most years it will simply fuck a team with a real shot of going all the way.