OT - Jalen Hurts possibly looking to transfer
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/jalen-hurts’-dad-teases-a-transfer-away-from-alabama/ar-AAw3IEj
I know he is probably not a fit at Michigan for various reasons but man that would be fun. If this happens, Bama will have two scholarship QBs - not good, even for Saban.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:14 AM ^
April 20th, 2018 at 11:30 AM ^
Limited success by Bama's standards. And their standard is as high as it gets in college football. I think we're so used to seeing them steamrolling opponents and having elite playmakers at every position that when one of their players seem human, we just assume he sucks.
Hurts may not be the best fit for what Bama wants to do at QB, but he also led them to two straight title games. Most teams would KILL to have a guy like that come and play for them.
April 21st, 2018 at 12:20 AM ^
Hurts was not the leader in either of those years. Did you watch him play in those 2 years? I did.
April 20th, 2018 at 10:48 AM ^
The issue here is Saban is going to lie to this kids face and let him play the opening half and then pull him for the rest of the season. He did this exact thing Jalen's freshman year.
It will be a real interesting story to follow
April 20th, 2018 at 10:51 AM ^
April 20th, 2018 at 10:53 AM ^
But what about thereafter... How does Saban bench Tua after the Nat Champ game?
April 20th, 2018 at 11:31 AM ^
Exactly, Saban lost 2 QBs by doing this in 2016. He will wait til week 4 this time.
it's not that hard. Kudos to the kid coming off the bench and sparking his team, but Georgia lost that game more than Tua and Bama won it.
I really don't know who the better QB is, but one half of solid (and lucky) football doesn't automatically make you the starter next year.
April 21st, 2018 at 12:17 AM ^
We saw who Georgia really was in the 2nd half. The fact that both the SEC Championship and the National Champioship were in Georgia was the only reason Georgia looked good in the post season. Auburn was a better team than Georgia. But the SEC Championship being a home game in Atlanta for Georgia was the reason they beat Auburn.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:17 AM ^
Hurts won't ever play another meaningful down for Alabama again. Had Saban not benched him for Tua, Bama likely loses that game to Georgia. Their offense was going NOWHERE with him in that game. Then Tua came in and everything just clicked.
There were even rumblings during the regular season about how "limited" Bama's offense was, by their standards, when Hurts was under center. I do think some of it is unfair criticism, but I just don't see how you hand the job back to Hurts after Tua was the sole reason Bama won that title game.
April 21st, 2018 at 12:14 AM ^
The issue is that Nick Saban wants to move him to playing something else other than QB. That is why his dad is saying he is a QB. Hurts has ample opportunity to play lots of downs at Alabama. Just not at QB. Tua T is so much better than him at QB.
April 20th, 2018 at 10:53 AM ^
C'mon man -- he has people to do that. That might even be a specific coaching position at 'Bama. Works closely with the Bag Man.
April 20th, 2018 at 10:49 AM ^
Can't find space for a dude like Hurts. Wow. Love to see us start having problems like that at QB.
April 20th, 2018 at 10:52 AM ^
April 20th, 2018 at 10:55 AM ^
to Tennessee even if he wanted to help the school that just fired him.
April 20th, 2018 at 10:56 AM ^
Wow. That hurts
April 20th, 2018 at 11:58 AM ^
everybody hurts...
April 20th, 2018 at 11:00 AM ^
April 20th, 2018 at 11:19 AM ^
He wants to play and when you've been passed up by a player a year behind you it means very limited playing time.
Goes to show you the riches in talent Alabama has.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:57 PM ^
Tua T really is better than Hurts. That first TD pass Tua T threw after he came into the Nat Champ game was utterly gorgeous!
April 20th, 2018 at 11:21 AM ^
It would be great to have him sitting on the bench to the right of Jake Butt.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:52 AM ^
what you did there.
The immortal WVU pairing during RR's time there.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:22 AM ^
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April 20th, 2018 at 11:42 AM ^
This opinion is based on the pretext of Bama have a dominant offensive line and they have not had that for several years. The 2017 OL was mediocre at best and got exposed against good DLs.
Tua was successful while running for his life and then finally due to a blown coverage.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:31 AM ^
“Coach Saban’s job is to do what’s best for his team. I have no problem with that,” Averion Hurts said. “My job is to do what’s best for Jalen — and make no mistake, Jalen is a quarterback, and he wants to play quarterback. He loves Alabama, loves Coach Saban and everything about that place. But he wants to play, and he will play …”
Ah, yes, another one potentially runs afoul of The Process....
I don't know that he'd be the biggest free agent in football history as his father seems to believe, but if he did leave, he certainly would not have a shortage of schools willing to offer him a home on their team.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:42 AM ^
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April 20th, 2018 at 12:31 PM ^
April 20th, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
Tua will likely be the top pick in 2020 draft. No shame in transferring to put yourself in a position to succeed.
Hurts needs to show that he can throw the ball to get to the League and that will not happen in Bama.
With your stupid advice, dude will be a UFA trying to catch on to a practice squad in 2 years rather than a possible day 2 draft pick if he balls out at another school.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:36 PM ^
His dad should have said, "Make no doubt, in my mind he's a QB". There's no way he gets drafted into the NFL to be a QB. Nick Saban wants to move him to TB or TE, or even safety, and some QB. He is a fantastic athlete. Who knows where he could end up. But he is not good enough at a passer to play QB full time.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:38 AM ^
I would take him in a heartbeat
April 20th, 2018 at 12:07 PM ^
If we didn't have Shea in the fold I'd agree.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:48 AM ^
Would he have to pay back any of his signing bonus?
April 20th, 2018 at 11:50 AM ^
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April 20th, 2018 at 12:29 PM ^
not exactly what I'd call a clown show.
Why would that be a clown show? Rudock was solid to good, and OKorn just flopped. His writing was on the wall though with his previous performance in Houston. I don't think it's bad to have 3 transfers in Harbaugh's first 3 years. We're already there with Patterson in the fold (sitting a year or not he's the 3rd). Hurts would be 4, but that is not happening for one very good reason: we have several promising young talents already on the roster. There's is really no need to bring in a transfer unless something catastrophic happened to our depth chart via injury or worse.
April 20th, 2018 at 12:29 PM ^
It makes a ton of sense in regards to both A) Location, because he is from Texas, and B) Because Herman is a Urbanite, the Offense that he runs down there is very similar to what Urban runs at OSU. I think that it would be like him going to OSU for fit, but to a better location. Also, it would probably give some of us a little ease off of the thoughts of him playing against us for 2 years.