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SeekNDestroy said:
Who is “most” people?
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Joe has bungled just about everything since taking office, especially Afghanistan, and his approval ratings are well below 50%, so yeah, most people. Do you think he handled the recent evacuation of Afghanistan well? Do you think most people AREN'T unhappy with how he handled that... or the Southern border, or Covid?
 
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Bishop2b5 said:
Joe has bungled just about everything since taking office, especially Afghanistan, and his approval ratings are well below 50%, so yeah, most people.
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although I would recommend disengageing from this topic. Got to deal with woke scolds everywhere else. I cant take it on my sports message board. Ignoring them is the only proven antidote.
 
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He’s right, of course, as usual.

One is 100% Agiye Hall. Jimbo basically called him on the coaches tv broadcast.
 
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Dale said:


He’s right, of course, as usual.

One is 100% Agiye Hall. Jimbo basically called him on the coaches tv broadcast.
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He's absolutely right and I'm glad he called them out. We had 2 or 3 WR's and at least 1 RB who were lazy and had bad attitudes, and when they had the chance to step up, they couldn't.
 
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Bishop2b5 said:
Joe has bungled just about everything since taking office, especially Afghanistan, and his approval ratings are well below 50%, so yeah, most people. Do you think he handled the recent evacuation of Afghanistan well? Do you think most people AREN'T unhappy with how he handled that... or the Southern border, or Covid?
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Lol.
 
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NDdomer2 said:
This tweet gone?
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Yes, I believe so. Here's what the tweet referred to:

This is from Saban's Jan. 27 speech to the Alabama Football Coaches Association clinic in Montgomery:

"And this is a story you should take back to your team so players understand this," Saban told the coaches. "They’re frustrated with their circumstance because they’re not playing as much as they want to. They’re outcome oriented. They want to worry about how many balls they catch, or how much playing time they get, or whatever it is. So they don’t focus everyday on being a complete player at their position, and they don’t work in practice and prepare for the games because they say to themselves, ‘Why should I do this? I’m not going to play anyway.’

"So we had three guys - they all had a significant role in the national championship game. And not one of them - not one - could take advantage of the opportunity they had because they never ground through it. They never made themselves the best player they could be. And when they got the opportunity, they couldn’t do it."


Billingsley and Hall were two. Not sure about the third, but probably Holden. Saban didn't mention it here, but there was a similar issue with 5-star freshman RB Camar Wheaton. He didn't play all season supposedly because of a meniscus injury to a knee, but the word is that it wasn't that serious, he could've played (there was a HUGE need for RB's due to injuries), and the real issue was grades, poor class attendance, bad attitude, lack of effort in practice, and laziness. He's already entered the transfer portal and will soon be someone else's problem.
 
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See when Brian Kelly did that blaming the players rather than himself he coped it from all sides.
Saban is a sook. He has to coach better and stop blaming the players. He is the one who went and signed Williams and cut the rug out from under all the 5 stars he signed out of high school.
He loses one natty (edit: actually correction he is the losingest NC coach in history) and he just spits the dummy at his players. Grow up or retire.
 
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T-Boone said:
See when Brian Kelly did that blaming the players rather than himself he coped it from all sides.
Saban is a sook. He has to coach better and stop blaming the players. He is the one who went and signed Williams and cut the rug out from under all the 5 stars he signed out of high school.
He loses one natty (edit: actually correction he is the losingest NC coach in history) and he just spits the dummy at his players. Grow up or retire.
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Yeah, saban is definitely doing the whole coaching-thing wrong.
 
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Not a surprise to anyone, but Saban signed a new 8-year deal that extends his contract for an additional year through the 2029 season and makes him once again the highest paid coach in CFB. The deal is worth $93.6 million with an average of $11.7 million per year. He's given several strong indications recently that he has zero interest in retiring in the foreseeable future and may very well coach another 8-12 years. Basically he's said that people retire so they have enough free time to do what they want to do, and since coaching is what he loves doing, why retire? I think that as long as he's healthy and can coach and recruit at this level, he's not about to step down.
 
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Bishop2b5 said:
Not a surprise to anyone, but Saban signed a new 8-year deal that extends his contract for an additional year through the 2029 season and makes him once again the highest paid coach in CFB. The deal is worth $93.6 million with an average of $11.7 million per year. He's given several strong indications recently that he has zero interest in retiring in the foreseeable future and may very well coach another 8-12 years. Basically he's said that people retire so they have enough free time to do what they want to do, and since coaching is what he loves doing, why retire? I think that as long as he's healthy and can coach and recruit at this level, he's not about to step down.
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Well shit
 
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Bishop2b5 said:
Not a surprise to anyone, but Saban signed a new 8-year deal that extends his contract for an additional year through the 2029 season and makes him once again the highest paid coach in CFB. The deal is worth $93.6 million with an average of $11.7 million per year. He's given several strong indications recently that he has zero interest in retiring in the foreseeable future and may very well coach another 8-12 years. Basically he's said that people retire so they have enough free time to do what they want to do, and since coaching is what he loves doing, why retire? I think that as long as he's healthy and can coach and recruit at this level, he's not about to step down.
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Need term limits on coaches...
Man, that'll put him at like 22 years at Alabama if he stays the full contract length, right? He'd be just 2 years shy of Bryant's tenure if he does. Might as well stay another 3.
 
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ulukinatme said:
Need term limits on coaches...
Man, that'll put him at like 22 years at Alabama if he stays the full contract length, right? He'd be just 2 years shy of Bryant's tenure if he does. Might as well stay another 3.
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I've begun to think that might be a motivating factor for Saban.
 
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T Town Tommy said:
He’s not lost many of the neutral site games either so while the backhanded compliment is accurate it’s a bit misleading. And, for the record, I have hated those games and glad they are moving away from them. But I would swap Bama’s schedule every year for Notre Dame’s.
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Interesting. Not to argue, but throwing out the schedules for each in case anyone else does:

Bama:
Utah State
@ Texas
UL Monroe
Vandy
@ #19 Arkansas
#6 TAMU
@ Tennessee
Miss St.
Bye
@ LSU
@ #21 Ole Miss
Austin Peay
Auburn

ND:
@ #2 OSU
Marshall
Cal
@ UNC
Bye
#25 BYU (neutral site)
Stanford
UNLV
@ Syracuse
#4 Clemson
Navy (neutral site)
Boston College
@ #14 USC

I mean, in terms of rank teams, ND plays at #2 and #14, neutral stie for #25, and home for #4. Bama travels for #19 and #21 and gets #6 at home.

Out of all of these teams, Austin Peay has to be by far the worst. Then maybe UL Monroe? I don't think those teams beat any team on ND's' schedule (possibly Marshall?)

Bama might get the conference championship game, but it's not a given so we can't count it, yet.
 
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Well that was fast. Raiders cut Alex Leatherwood. He was the 17th pick in the draft last year. Reports are the Raiders tried to trade him to every other team with no takers. You have to be pretty bad to be that highly picked and given the boot after essentially one year.
 
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Irish#1 said:
Well that was fast. Raiders cut Alex Leatherwood. He was the 17th pick in the draft last year. Reports are the Raiders tried to trade him to every other team with no takers. You have to be pretty bad to be that highly picked and given the boot after essentially one year.
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Raiders continue to Raiders
 
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Irish#1 said:
Well that was fast. Raiders cut Alex Leatherwood. He was the 17th pick in the draft last year. Reports are the Raiders tried to trade him to every other team with no takers. You have to be pretty bad to be that highly picked and given the boot after essentially one year.
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That's what you get when you hire a TV draft analyst as your GM.
 
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Well supposedly Gruden had the most input on the 1st round picks.


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Leatherwood getting waived is puzzling. I thought he was a reach as a first round draft pick and could've been picked up in round 2, but it's not like he couldn't play. He was a first team All American and Outland Trophy winner, and he started every game for the Raiders as a rookie. I'm betting there's more to this. Maybe he showed up for camp totally out of shape or there are some personal/behavior issues that haven't been made public.
 
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