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Alabama Football: Why Dabo Swinney is not the new Pat Dye

Offseasons are tough for Alabama football fans. We scour message boards and Twitter, soak up podcasts, relive old Crimson Tide memories – basically anything to make it until the next football season.

Another good use of offseason intervals is to ask questions, no one would devote time to in the regular season. We ran across some conjecture recently that begs the question is Dabo Swinney today, loosely equivalent to Pat Dye in 1982? It is a good question. Like many good questions, it can have more than one plausible answer.

We will consider why the question deserves being asked.