After week 1 of embarrassment, the Crimson Tide are back on their feet and started flexing muscle on the field, but off it? On the verge of cultural identity warfare. Alabama football just roasted UL Monroe 73–0 and then cooked Wisconsin behind Ty Simpson’s 4-TD flamethrower. Yet this time, the conversation back home is less about box scores and more about headcount. A record number of students are packing Tuscaloosa this fall, and the brand-new school president isn’t exactly doing victory laps. He’s worried the Tide might lose something even more valuable than a playoff berth: its culture.

Newly appointed Alabama president Peter Mohler didn’t hold back when he pulled up on the ‘Hey Coach’ radio show. “I am concerned that if we get significantly larger, we’re gonna lose a lot of that c

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