You see Bill Connelly drop his SEC preview and he's got us behind Texas and Georgia again. Same song every year since 2020. I remember the 1992 season when we went 13-0 and nobody gave us credit until we shut down Miami in the Sugar Bowl for the national title. These computers and formulas do not know what this program is built on.
Fall camp is starting and I keep thinking about how Coach Stallings used to have us grinding two-a-days in the August heat with zero water breaks. No sports drinks, no ice baths, no recovery smoothies. You earned your spot through sweat and pain. Now we got 23 five-stars in the 2027 class and ESPN telling us how each one "fits" somewhere. Fits what? A roster that changes every year because of the portal? You cannot build chemistry when half the team shows up in January.
The portal killed everything we built. I do not care how many five-stars we sign. Give me a kid from Mississippi who grew up dreaming of playing in Bryant-Denny and will bleed crimson fo...