If Tuberville is our coach after the season, regardless of how the season ends, you have to let him pick who he wants to let go and bring in. Its his future on the line after all and he has earned the right to make those decisions. Regardless of what happens next year, its on Tuberville how the team performs so he’s got to go to war with the guys HE wants not anybody else. He will be responsible for the results win or lose and if he fails there won’t be any excuses necessary. If we have to break our ties with Tubs and cut him lose we can do so knowing we gave him a fair shot.

I think getting bowl eligible might be as much as we can hope for next year with our schedule so don’t get tied to having to do much better than 7-5. As long as we bring in a decent recruiting class, aren’t a laughinstock on offense and we go to a bowl will be enough for me.

“I think getting bowl eligible might be as much as we can hope for next year with our schedule so don’t get tied to having to do much better than 7-5. As long as we bring in a decent recruiting class, aren’t a laughinstock on offense and we go to a bowl will be enough for me.”

This sounds like the expectations for Mike Shula’s second year, not for a coach with an undefeated season and a SEC championship who would be in his eleventh season at the same program!

Look, as an Alabama alum, I want the opportunity to beat Tommy 7 times in a row (or at least 4 more, to even the record), but settling for the Music City Bowl? Really?

“End” you sure have a lousy memory for a Bammer fan, I could have sworn you guys were barely getting by the last few years. I am not some Polyanna “Save Tubby” fan. I am a realist who has seen some very disturbing things this year I never thought I would see under a Tuberville administration. Yes I have low expectations for next year. We have not made one step of forward progress with our offense this year. If we stick with the spread it will still be brand spanking new to our returning players since we really haven’t explored it in depth in game situations as it is. To make things more difficult, we will have ANOTHER new OC on the plains trying to put something together that GOD WILLING will look nothing like the abomination that is showcased for two and half minutes between defensive appearances for the Tigers. Our defense is in need of an upgrade as well, we are going to lose Marks and Powers, our linebacking corp already is below average and our depth is very concerning.

We will be playing LSU, UGA, ARK and UT on the road, WVU and Bama at home. Throw in resurgent Ole Miss and always tough MSU and Vandy, and yes 7-5 is about as pragmatic as I can get. There is no doubt Tubs has rebounded before and hopefully he will again but he isn’t going to do it playing the type of football that made him a winner, that is what really concerns me for the future of the program. I want to see good things on the horizon but the clouds just keep getting darker and they may be pitch black on Nov. 30th, the day after the Bama game. I am fully aware of how much the media is rooting for Saban to succeed at Alabama and taking a beating from them on their way to Atlanta is REALLY going to hurt us perceptually in the recruiting game and we can’t afford to fall behind Bama in that regard because we have some major holes to fill.

when I saw that Power had us losing to Georgia and Alabama. Seriously?! This has been a bad season, but you never give up before a game unless you want to just lose. So, with every new game there is hope. There is. So pull your shit together and cheer like a fan damn it! War Eagle!

on guts and guile for only a while, if your engine isn’t running in top form you will eventually just become an also ran.

I tell you Big E, Tubs has got big problems. The mere fact that it took us turning the “UT’es” away on a fourth down inside the 10(?) in the fourth qtr before we finally put them away says volumes about our team. We don’t have enough depth on our team to compete with a 1A team….oh sorry a top 20 1A team. They gave us all we could handle and then some. They went up and down the field on us with impunity and our offense other than Kodi Burns draws and sweeps was about as explosive as a pop-gun. I don’t know about you but this has gotten REAL bad, REAL quick. I don’t think Tubs should be fired at the end of the season but it still might be the right thing to do. Ever since the UGA game in ‘06 when Tuberville would not sit an obviously injured and ineffective Brandon Cox, which resulted in Cox having one of the worst games I’ve ever seen a QB have and us being humiliated at home 45-15(and it could have been worse), I have seen an increasingly reluctance of Tuberville to make changes in game that would help us win and even worse make adjustments at half time to correct problems in the offense. This is unusual because he is exceedingly quick to bench a RB or WR should he fumble or miss an assignment.

I don’t know, maybe it’s gonna work out, maybe Georgia or Bama will choke against us and we can somehow eek out a victory against one or both, but I’ve never felt more certain that humiliation waits for us in these last two games because this team is beaten physically and mentally and I don’t see Tuberville doing a damn thing about it. Other than playing Kodi Burns and giving him the much needed game experience to grow, I can’t cite one thing he has done to pull this team out of its nosedive. These are young kids and they need to be motivated and believed in by their leaders and it sounds like a lot of them have given up on Tuberville. As the quote from Remember the Titans goes..“Attitude reflects leadership, Cap’n!”. I think we have a leadership problem and how that gets better by changing the drapes and rearranging the furniture I don’t know.