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 nan authorities of assemblage shot and really it will effect nan programme amid a roller-coaster season.

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

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Alabama Crimson Tide backmost A.J. McCarron, #10, warming up earlier nan commencement of their crippled against nan 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 nan "McCready & Siskey" podcast that things were not nan aforesaid astatine nan schoolhouse and explained name, image and likeness (NIL) had a batch to do pinch it.

"Everybody’s worried astir f---ing TikTok and having a reel and being connected highlights for their individual aforesaid and individual gain, and really overmuch money they tin get from NIL. We conscionable didn’t person that s--- backmost then. It was a squad sport. You came together arsenic a squad because you had 1 communal goal, because you knew that’s really you were going to make your money, was by winning.

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

"Winning attracts group to that program, it attracts scouts, it attracts GMs, it attracts ownership to let yourself that opportunity to spell make yourself a batch of money and alteration your family character for a agelong play of time. You tin conscionable tell. It’s not nan same. I would deliberation Bama fans should get utilized to that successful a measurement of, hey, it’s not gonna beryllium what you knew from 2008 up until past year, wherever location was conscionable a definite standard. That’s not a sound connected nan coaching unit aliases a sound connected anybody.

"It’s conscionable a different era. I deliberation it’s thing that they’re going to person to buckle up if they’re not fresh 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 nan 2nd half 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 nan SEC arsenic beardown arsenic it is, Alabama’s schedule will not beryllium immoderate easier after Missouri. The squad will deed nan roadworthy connected Nov. 9 for a matchup against LSU. The squad will person Mercer mixed successful earlier playing Oklahoma and Auburn.

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