Sometimes You Just Get Whooped
For anyone who has played football you understand and remember the games where you just got whooped the entire game in all phases. On Monday night that is exactly what happened to the Alabama Football team.
Let’s be clear Alabama football fans. Monday night was the worst loss not only under Saban, but I would argue in program history. On the biggest stage, with the best offense in school history, the Alabama Football team got it handed to them by Clemson. Alabama is really fortunate that they only lost by 28. Clemson easily could have dropped 60+ points on that defense. So let’s discuss what went wrong and why.
I was listening to Paul Finebaum yesterday. And he had a guest on who writes about ‘Bama football and he commented Saban turn over the staff to bring in more young recruiters after UGa was able to pick off a lot of Saban’s top targets. The turnover worked in some claim this current crop of ‘Bama commits is the best Saban has ever had. But this season the actual coaching suffered in particular on defense where the DC is Saban’s best recruiter but not very good or inexperienced of the actual Xs and Os of coming up and calling a defensive plan.
That article wasn’t funny at all.
A stat I noticed during the game said that if Clemson won, the senior class of both schools would have 54 wins and 2 national titles. Two very dominate and evenly matched programs.
What went wrong was some extremely strange/poor coaching decisions. When Saban sat on the ball going into the half I knew he’d given up. And then the fake and then Tua running around the end on 4th and goal. What the heck was going on? There are other minor strange things, but these three alone were enough to lose to Clemson who had a darn near perfect day (1 penalty).
That's the last I'll see of them.
I don't know how to fix the problem. Return to single platoon football, limit substitutions and make the 300 pounders run the whole game? Widen the field? The current drug testing clearly isn't working.
Every cloud has a silver lining. Bama has not been stomped in a long long time. Now there is no doubt that Bama needs work.
All the recent Bama loses (except Monday’s) could be changed with a few plays. Clemson won this game, there should be no debate that was a beat down.
One on Rush’s best sayings is that successful peoples are those that failed and picked themselves up and tried again. I expect Bama to do just that. RTR
Sometimes you are just in a mediocre conference, so you look better than you are... then you run into a wall.... This time it was Clemson...
Saban’s post-game comments were pure class.
This is hilarious!
SEC Shorts - Teams visit a laid up Alabama after Championship Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZivEBcvM8CM