Jacobs is the problem.
He's not an AD. Never was. He's a ticket hustler who goobled on enough dicks to get promoted to a place where he is completely incompetent and also beholden to people who may have their hearts in the right place but are dumber than two dozen fucks.
When Saban came to Alabama he got one thing right. He got everybody on the same page. His way or no way. He forced all the good ol' boy yuck-it-ups into the background and forced the entire operation to run like a business. Like a ruthless business. There are no positions that are given to people for political or personal reasons.
There's no emotion. Everybody has a job to do and everybody is held 100% accountable for doing that job.
I don't like him. I don't like what he represents. But that is how things are done. I know from my own business experience that hiring a no nonsense business manager was the best decision I ever made. We're effective. We're productive. Everybody knows exactly what they are supposed to do, no questions. If they don't, they know there are consequences. I didn't run things that way and I should have. I would have been happier and didn't even know it.
Jacobs won't get rid of the good ol' boy yuck-it-ups because he IS one. That's ALL he is. Gus (or the next coach or the next or the next) will never have the power to do whatever he wants. There's ALWAYS somebody lurking around. Jacobs' dumb ass is prowling the fucking sidelines at almost every game. When was the last time you saw the Bama AD standing there eyeing Saban and registering satisfaction or displeasure with his body language. But there Jacboobs is. Him and his entourage of suckups. If we want to be that kind of program, Jacobs has to face into the background. But he won't. He's in love with himself.
He probably thinks he's a businessman. But listen to the yahoo speak. He's a fuckerstunt.
This is 1000% the issue! I award you 100,000 points you have won the internet today or whenever you posted this and I am just now reading it.