I m denying that the talent is largely All-SEC talent. The Tide has a roster larded with solid, workaday SEC players. The Tide, and Tide fans, expect a flash of crimson to turn opponents into jellyfish. Even worse, the Tide has managed to win during many seasons just by flashing crimson and then by waiting for the jellyfished opponent to make the mistakes. The Tide is just another SEC football team, sometimes a good one, sometimes not.
Tradition is great.
It s time for the Tide, and Tide fans, to wake up to the New Football Order. To win, the Tide has to play, play well, play imaginatively. But then tradition returned. When the they play as if they have to actually earn a victory, they often do. The inbreeding is inhibiting imagination.