Thomas Castellanos' comments last month certainly made an impression inside the Alabama football facility.
The new Florida State QB said in June that Nick Saban wasn't there to save Alabama anymore, echoing a growing sentiment nationally that the Crimson Tide isn't the same program post-Saban that they were. Alabama's 9-4 season a year ago opened itself up to that now-rampant thought process.
It'll be up to Alabama to change the way people think in 2025. And that starts with Castellanos, who they'll see immediately in the season opener at Doak Campbell in Tallahassee.
Though Castellanos tried to walk back those comments this week when he was at a workout that featured new Alabama WR Isaiah Horton, a Miami transfer, it's too little, too late for the diminutive signal-caller who transferred from Boston College.