Im no Saban fan but the defense has never been in question despite numerous coordinator changes. It evolves but IMO it never really even has a really down year. It is very vulnerable to vertical pass but luckily for him SEC coaches are morons and try to run against it instead.
I totally agree with this. We had a pretty good passing offense last year and put up 46 points on that defense and Trask threw for over 400 yards. People can say what they want about the game never being in doubt, but at the end of the third quarter Bama only had a 4 point lead and with any kind of a decent defense, UF might have had a chance. At the end of the day though, they knew we could never match them TD for TD.
Offensively, we had a decent plan. The year before LSU did the same thing and it worked out fine for them. The difference of course was LSU's defense made some stops, especially in the first half.
Saban figured out a couple of years ago where things were going and dramatically changed his offense. For the first decade he was there, his offense passed for 2,500 - 3,500 yds (more or less) per year. The last three seasons? 4,400 to 4,900 per year. And he did it while
still having a running back put up well over 1K yds! People can say it's all recruiting, but Shart has recruited every bit as well as Saban over the last five years and has zero Natty's to show for it while Saban has two.
I don't actually believe in karma but I do believe that if you play stupid games then you win stupid prizes... And those squatting trucks... Is that just the latest way that queers are "coming out" these days or what? 
