At receiver and TE you had Floyd, Tate, Rudolph all starting. Tate and Rudolph are multi-year all-pro NFL talents, and Floyd was probably the best collegiate receiver of the three.

Clausen had his limitations but was an unbelievably accurate college QB by that point.

Running backs you had Allen, Gray, Hughes, Riddick, Aldridge (plus Cierre Wood who didn't play)

and a fairly easy November schedule (which was a winless month?) was beyond frustrating. There were some forecasters that picked us to be in the National Championship game that August.

Minter was fine but he made a huge mistake with Brown and Tenuta and what made it worse was that those guys didn't even get along and they split the defense in half.

Tenuta wouldn't even take the time to learn how to slow down zone read, for God's sake. It's like he felt it was below him.

the clock at the end of games and instead freaking tried to score again passing the ball when simply taking a knee three times would have ended the game and/or eliminated enough time that the other team couldn't score even if God granted them a miracle.

The guy lacked any and all aspects of common sense during games. He needed a baby sitter and when he had one in the NFL he was able to do well.

Kyle Rudolph, Golden Tate, Harrison Smith, Tyler Eifert, Zack Martin (latter two were freshmen, but we went 8-5 the two years after that...)

Alabama had 4 guys on the 2009 roster that ended up going to a Pro Bowl.