There’s something to be said for living a long time, you just haven’t read history, you’ve lived and experienced it. Now when I make a projection like this, it’s not just rooted in my gut feeling or riding the current wave of trending news, but by years of experience and in knowing the hearts and minds of the people involved. It also helps to understand not only the history of the program and people, but why the decisions were made at the time they were done.
Now in all my years of sports writing on Alabama, I can boast that I’ve never been wrong in predicting who the starting quarterback will be each fall and yes, I did say Blake Barnett would start over Jalen Hurts and why and everything played out exactly as I said it would, so with so many asking me to put my .