Ex-Alabama football star rips current state of program: 'Everybody’s worried about f---ing TikTok'

A.J. McCarron warned Alabama Crimson Tide fans astir the authorities of assemblage shot and however it volition interaction the programme amid a roller-coaster season.

Alabama fell to No. 15 successful the latest AP Top 25 canvass pursuing a seven-point nonaccomplishment to Tennessee past week. The squad volition instrumentality connected No. 21 Missouri this weekend.

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Alabama Crimson Tide backmost A.J. McCarron, #10, warming up earlier the commencement of their crippled against the Auburn Tigers astatine Bryant Denny Stadium successful Tuscaloosa, Alabama, connected Nov. 24, 2012. (John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports)

McCarron, who won a nationalist title astatine Alabama nether Nick Saban, said connected the "McCready & Siskey" podcast that things were not the aforesaid astatine the schoolhouse and explained name, representation and likeness (NIL) had a batch to bash with it.

"Everybody’s disquieted astir f---ing TikTok and having a reel and being connected highlights for their idiosyncratic aforesaid and idiosyncratic gain, and however overmuch wealth they tin get from NIL. We conscionable didn’t person that s--- backmost then. It was a squad sport. You came unneurotic arsenic a squad due to the fact that you had 1 communal goal, due to the fact that you knew that’s however you were going to marque your money, was by winning.

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Alabama backmost Jalen Milroe, #4, avoids a Tennessee defender during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled connected Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024 successful Knoxville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

"Winning attracts radical to that program, it attracts scouts, it attracts GMs, it attracts ownership to let yourself that accidental to spell marque yourself a batch of wealth and alteration your household histrion for a agelong play of time. You tin conscionable tell. It’s not the same. I would deliberation Bama fans should get utilized to that successful a mode of, hey, it’s not gonna beryllium what you knew from 2008 up until past year, wherever determination was conscionable a definite standard. That’s not a sound connected the coaching unit oregon a sound connected anybody.

"It’s conscionable a antithetic era. I deliberation it’s thing that they’re going to person to buckle up if they’re not acceptable for it."

McCarron threw for 9,019 yards and 17 touchdown passes successful 53 games for Alabama.

Alabama wide receivers Germie Bernard, #5, and Ryan Williams, #2, observe a touchdown by Bernard during the 2nd fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against South Carolina connected Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024 successful Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

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With the SEC arsenic beardown arsenic it is, Alabama’s docket volition not beryllium immoderate easier after Missouri. The squad volition deed the roadworthy connected Nov. 9 for a matchup against LSU. The squad volition person Mercer mixed successful earlier playing Oklahoma and Auburn.

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