CrimsonCrusade

It was one of the worst teams Alabama has lost to in decades, right up there with 2024 Vanderbilt and 2024 Michigan. The optimistic take is that the person most responsible for the Oklahoma and Michigan losses is now gone.

But why you're dwelling on this today is a mystery

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I’m just not that interested in the current product they’re putting out, and it’s because I know for sure now that the players don’t care what team they’re playing for, it’s a job, just like anything else. Maybe they never did, but at least when they committed, it felt like they made a choice that I would make and we could all be passionate about the team together.

Sure, the fans don’t contribute to the team, whatever, but without our interest the sport dies

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There was definitely a time when the players cared in college football. Not that long ago, it wasn't uncommon to see players crying after a loss. That passion was always the biggest reason it was more entertaining than the NFL.

Also, to your last point, one of the insane things about this system is that fans are expected to contribute to the team in a very tangible way. You've got players on Bama's roster now getting paid big money to ride the bench, so if you've ever bought a hot dog at BDS you're contributing more than many of these guys.

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What’s the point of dominating regular season games if we have the top 24 in the playoffs?

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What's the point of watching regular season games when you have that many teams make the playoff? This system is going to continue to move the important games away from fall Saturdays on campus and put them on January Tuesdays in NFL stadiums. Year one of the 12 format was already a complete disaster.

This seems like better material for your diary than a forum. Not sure why anyone would care that you got banned from another site, much less the reasons why

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sport is cooked and it is the administrators of college athletics's fault not the players and their agents

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Obviously it's both.

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it makes sense that it's in Birmingham since that is the state's largest city

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Huntsville is now larger than Birmingham by almost 30k. It has been for several years.

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They’re trying so hard to be like the NFL but the NFL has much better playoffs

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The NFL playoffs actually share the CFP's biggest issue - that they reward champions of mostly geographically meaningless divisions more than best overall record. So you can have teams with .500 or even losing records make the playoffs because they happened to beat the completely random assortment of teams in their division.

More broadly, in the past a case could be made for why CFB was more entertaining despite being a lower level of play. Now, with all the unique format and rules taken away, CFB really is just the poor man's NFL. So the only reason to still watch is momentum from having become invested over years when the sport was actually good. I think you're going to see more and more former CFB fans shift to primarily following the NFL, as some of the numbers already suggest. For me personally, I expect I'll eventually just be done with spectator sports altogether.

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Seeing that receiver bobble the ball for a second made me cringe thinking we were about to see one of those butt fumble type plays that end up as internet memes.

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It gave me flashbacks to the ridiculous number of drops we had in Young's two years as a starter. There's a reason most our receivers from those days are either done with football or transferred into oblivion

The way Bama's defense was hitting at the end of the season was exciting. Even when they weren't executing as well earlier in the season, I saw improved fundamentals in terms of pursuit to the ball, gang tackling, wrapping up, etc. It took multiple seasons to wash away Golding's brand of iso arm tackling but I think we're finally there. Defense also had a bit of a killer instinct at times, such as getting the stop at the end against Georgia or holding Tennessee to a field goal after Milroe threw it away on fourth down inside our own 25.

I hope these trends continue next year. I'd like to see growth from Wommack in terms of in game adjustments and prep for unconventional offenses.

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You cannot pull an outgoing draftee QB during a meaningless bowl game due to poor play

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Every game is important. If you listen to players talk about the 2007 Independence Bowl or the 2010 Capital One Bowl of the 2019 Citrus Bowl, they will say it spring boarded what came next. This idea that these games don't matter is from people who never played.