The hidden gem here is that, since Sayin was an early enrollee, he has to use his transfer. Not sayin' jus' Sayin'
Dontcha just love the smell of Bama destruction on a Friday morning....
Would love to see one of those MELT threads. The Gumptards have to be losing (loosing for MtnTiger) their chit and one tooth.
There is a gentleman on the UGA Rivals site which makes up monikers to fit various Tide fan's cries in relation to their post, and posts them. Here is a sampling...
New Coach Gump: DeSaster
Passing for the enemy Gump:
This is definitely the most painful one yet. I like the kid from Washington that committed yesterday, at least. Hope this dude heads to the Big 10 or Big 12 or something, but moving now makes me think it's an SEC team.
"You had two jobs, newbie" Gump: Saying and Downs were the two guys we couldn’t afford to lose. DeBoer lost both of them.
"But we got the best coaching staff in America" Gump: Seriously tho. Why fricking leave when you have a coach who is going to let you sling the rock? Grubb isn’t Reese.
Portaling herd immunity Gump: I’m pretty much immune to transfers at this point. Just ride it out and go from there. We are finding out who wanted to play for Alabama and who just wanted to play for Saban.
American History Gump: In the words of John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to melt!"
Mamas and Papas Gump:
This tells me he is not interested in competing for a spot with the Udub transfer. I think his NIL money per the crootin sight was around 875K.
He is fro Ca. so I assume he will stay close to home now
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Bill O'Reilly Gump: Disaster of a week for this coaching staff. No way to spin it. DeBoer has got to stop the bleeding quickly or this thing is gonna spiral on him.
Pat Sajak Gump:
Remember the days when a kid would decommit or transfer and it would only be for like 1 or 2 reasons?
Now you can just spin a wheel with 15 reasons
Sweet Home California Gump: Crazy you plan for years to live somewhere & finally move & a month later you say, "ah frick it Im gone".
Chicken Egg Gump: Really curious for those in the know...did Mack coming in cause this or did we bring in Mack because it was coming?
DeBlue Chip Recruiter Gump: When he said big news was coming, maybe he meant Mack? By DeBoer’s standards that is a big recruit. Has CKD ever signed a single five star before?
Crimson Bobby (insider): Sayin hasn’t done sh**. Who cares.
"Don't give a p*** about nothing but the Tide" Gump: These are guys that came to play for Saban. Just know this, the one's that stay are playing for the Alabama legacy. And that's why they'll be winners!!
Tuscaloser Gump:
yeah there’s no way to spin this start to the DeBoer tenure as anything but awful
I like the staff he’s put together, but at this point he’s lost 4 guys projected as 1st rounders.
"Nick Saban couldn't defend this screw up with the 2011 defense" Gump:
I was not concerned with losing Sayin, because I thought DeBoer and Grubb's reputation would entice any quarterback. I became concerned when Mack was brought in.
This is probably the most indefensible loss for the new staff to this point. Bond was in the portal before DeBoer was announced, Robinson was already looking elsewhere, we knew Downs was upset with his coaches leaving, and there had been news about Proctor wanting to be closer to home for some time. No great excuse here really.
Baghdad Bob Gump: No way this is on DeBoer at all. You can’t hold a gun to these kids and make them stay. They weren’t his guys. He will get his players. Quit crying you babies.
"QB whispering Kalen Mulle....err DeBoer" Gump: We all knew this was coming. Im fine with it. The kid is a freshman, more of these "cant miss" QBs bust than make it and Deboer brought in a guy he already knows can play. If the kid was the real deal, hed welcome the challenge, considering this is probably the most QB friendly offense at an elite program now.
"We got the better QB" Gump: Austin Mack is a talented QB with a year of college under his belt. This is at worst an even trade.
"DeBoer got the plague" Gump: Do you honestly think we’d be seeing these kinds of transfers if we had hired Sark, Kiffin, or Lanning?
"Deboer playing chess" Gump: Deboer told Sayin' to leave on the day Downs commits to Georgia. Takes the focus off of it.
"We gotta pay full price now" Gump:
Knew this one was coming. He was directly recruited by Saban. The man was in Sayin's living room a month ago for a photo before he signed.
Stop melting, these high 4/5 star guys who came to Bama because of Saban are going to transfer en masse because they can get a bigger bag somewhere else, and Saban isn't here anymore.
Replace them with people who want to be here.
"Mack is da shizzle" Gump: the kid looked at who was in front of him in the qb room and said "I ain't playing anytime soon."
"He better win now" Gump:
I’m team Deboer but his Alabama tenure so far has been every player on the fence jumping ship.
He better win games year 1. We understood it with Saban taking over a mostly talentless roster. KDB has taken over the best roster in football and failed to retain an alarming amount of key pieces.
On old Rocky Top Gump: His Alabama tenure so far had been one week and we have people ready to jump ship. That’s how you wind up wandering in the coaching wilderness like the Tennessee’s of the world.
The Carpenters Gump:
This isn't the end, expect half of the newly signed class to leave.
Bye, bye playoffs for the next two years.
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"Crewman, Your assurance to the passengers that Titanic is unsinkable had a calming effect for awhile, but they are standing knee deep in water now." Gump: I appreciate that you're trying to be positive in a sea of melting Bama fans the past few weeks, but there's really no way to spin this. It's a big loss.
"Two, twenty-five...just numbers" Gump: Here in reality, no two players make or break a team. We're going to be just fine.
"We just lost the Pied Piper" Gump: It is a huge loss and unfortunately you can expect more to follow him. We knew that we’d have a bunch of transfers but now it’s threatening to reach the critical point. We will be fine in time but at the moment it’s going to sting!
"You'd think we just lost the no. 1 QB in the 2024 class and the no. 1 safety in college football" Gump:
The melt here is unreal…
Y’all are acting like we just brought back Seth, hired BoB, and swapped QBs with a similar talent level…
DeBoer prioritized his staff, and it’s a good one. Let’s see what we make of recruiting now that it’s in place.
Fall of the Saban Empire Gump: This sh** doesn’t work anymore. Signing 3 star guys who “want to be at bama” won’t win crap. It’s the NIL era. All the big time schools are stock piling talent and if they lose big time talent they just go poach it from someone else. That’s the biggest thing from this. It’s open season on our roster, but we can’t replace any of it until AFTER spring. And we can’t even replace it with SEC players. Hell the Washington players that are worth a damn in the portal aren’t even a lock to transfer here. Our NIL collective can’t even keep the guys here and you want me to believe we’re gonna poach who we want in the spring? We needed to keep as much of the current team together as we could so that hopefully year one with KD could prove to recruits and transfers we were still a premium landing spot. We struggle year one, good luck getting recruits and transfers to come to Bama for a pay cut