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Kelley Ford Talks Changes at Alabama Heading into Next Season · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Kelly Ford back with us another segment. Kelly, let's jump into the SEC
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  real quick. We will touch some college basketball here in just a bit.
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  There is no way to know, but you know, everything has changed in
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  Alabama. So much has changed in Alabama. I mean from you know,
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  the new coach with Kelen de Boor also to Eli Gold. You know this
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  is off the field, but he will no longer be the play by play
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  voice to access for media. You know, Nick Saban spoke candidly about,
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  you know, the kind of the way the attitudes of players after the champions
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  are, the semi final loss to Michigan. What do we know? How
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  do we quantify? I mean, it feels like an eight and four,
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  nine and three team, But again, kelender Boor may come in there and
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  blow the doors off the SEC. It could be like luster. I just
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  don't know that. We know there's certainly more uncertainty around Alabama this year,
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  Jake, for the points you just alluded to, and more than there has
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  been in more than fifteen years since before Nick Saban got there. And Nick
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  Daben, I mean it took him one year. His first year two thousand
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  and seven had some growing pains. You're turning over a whole program that has
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  all this rich history, and he brought him back from pretty low to the
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  mountaintop again within the first couple of years there. I don't think we can
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  expect the Boar to come in and have the same level of success that Nick
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  Saban did early on or for the extened period of time, obviously, but
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  it's not like Nick Saban left this cupboard bear. This Alabama team is still
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  going to be immensely talented. And you know, if you're looking at from
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  a power rating standpoint, where they kind of slot in fringe top five,
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  certainly still top ten at this point in terms of what we're thinking now Alabama
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  fans will say, well, my gosh, between five and ten, thats
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  the sky is falling. It's the worst it's been. Well, maybe that's
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  a welcome back to reality in the post Nick Saban era, where you can't
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  just roll out of bed in August and say we have a top three power
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  rated team this year. They now are kind of playing on a more equal
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  playing field without Nick Saban there on the sideline and some of those other things
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  you mentioned. So yes, unknowns for sure, it's gonna be a challenge
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  it's gonna be different, but there is still a ton of talent in Tuscaloosa,
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  and you know you're going down their schedule here. They get Georgia at
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  home during the regular season, have to go to Tennessee Missouri, that's gonna
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  be a good team this year from a power rating standpoint, at least that's
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  a home game before then, of course the annual game with LSU that one's
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  on the road. Have to go to Oklahoma this year, and then get
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  your rival Auburn at home in the Iron Bowl. It's a very difficult schedule.
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  It is certainly within the realm of possibility that Alabama loses three regular season
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  games, which is just crazy. But in the expanded playoff era nine and
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  three in the SEC, when your brand name is Alabama Crimson Tide, that's
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  maybe still enough, maybe even probably still enough to make a spot in the
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  collegewall playoff. Here in twenty twenty four,