‘Bama had depth issues throughout Shula’s tenure. Face it, the guy, for whatever reason, liked to tempt fate. Sometimes, discretion is the better part of valor.

We’ll just have to disagree on this one.

I had the right concept, just the wrong player.

Was Florida going to score 28 points in 9 minutes? No, probably not. Would it have been the greatest comeback in history if they had? No.

Pretending like “is the game out of reach for the other team” is the only question worth considering when determining when to start playing the scrubs is naive at best.

I might be inclined to give Shula the benefit of the doubt here, except I remember his equally puzzling decision to insert an obviously injured Brodie Croyle into the ‘03 game with Georgia.

Saban’s recruiting class this year was better than Stoops’ and I really don’t think they’re that far apart. Oklahoma should have a better season than Alabama this year, but next year? Who knows… give Saban another huge recruiting class and we could be looking at Alabama playing better football than Oklahoma. Remember that two seasons ago Alabama was 10-2 while OU was 8-4.

I’ve been scratching my head over this one - there’s a 21 point loss to LSU and a couple of 18 point losses to Tennessee and Auburn I can remember, but I’m drawing a blank over a four TD loss.

As for verbosity… I’d point out a few flaws with using the CFBBA as a barometer in this specific case.

1. It was a poll so one has to believe that there was some measure of favoritism and bias in the voting. (i.e. it’s a ‘Bama blogger, so I’m going to vote for them!)
2. It was an internet poll, which immediately makes any claims of mandate questionable. See, for example, the Hot Blogger competition.
3. Kyle didn’t win, so claims of “majority” are also pretty weak.
4. Thinking that someone writes good prose and thinking they should write less of it are not mutually exclusive positions. In fact, most of my writing profs in college held that view of me.
5. This isn’t really about Kyle, specifically. He’s just a good example, so pointing out that he won an award is irrelevant. Especially when the vast majority of the rest of the winners don’t have the same problem with wordiness.

But, at the end of the day, nobody really has to answer to me. This is just one guy’s opinion. But thanks for the comment, and please accept my apologies for not being appropriately discriminating regarding the countdowns.