I knew it would happen. You can't lose to Auburn 5 times and expect to keep your job.
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quote:Originally posted by mjallen1:
None of you guys get it. I like Shula, but liking don't win football games.
Alabama has made a lot of mistakes when it comes to hiring a football coach, especially Dubose and Shula.
For all of their good points, they both share a common misgiving. They don't have the respect of their players. This is something that must be earned early, and can't be gotten later.
This is the basis of what makes a player reach his potential and play his heart out for his coach. Basically, they beleive in their coach.
Dubose and Shula also share another truth. Neither had ever been a head coach at any level, nor had they shown any abition to be a head coach.
Let's face it, if Gene Stallings was still coaching at Alabama, Dubose would still be an Alabama , assistant, and Shula would still be an assiatant in the NFL.
We need a guy that is self made, someone who has worked his was up the ladder, and beed a head coach, most of all is a proven commodity.
quote:Originally posted by bgreider:
ya go 10 and 2 get a 200k signing bonus and a 1.55 mill a year contract extention in may the fired for a 6-6 season. PLus a scandal free program ...Alabama places a greater emphasis on winning at all costs than they do their FB program.....Well UTEP might send Mike Price back....he went 5-7 there. Good luck to the next flavor of the day...and the bear would be disgusted
quote:Originally posted by imho:
Bear Bryant has been gone for 23 years.
Do the math. Players on Alabama's team were not alive yet when Bear last coached. Yes the legacy lives - but it is just that - a legacy.
Alabama did not make Bear Bryant great, the Bear made Alabama great.
The Bama elite need to realize they should stop trying to hire someone to carry on Bear's legacy and instead hire someone to begin a new legacy, which was the thought in hiring Shula and four years wasn't enough time.
quote:Originally posted by jesspow:
4 years is enough time to show some lasting improvement.
Isn't your statement a bit contradictory? You say get away from the past but yet you say Shula should've been given more time. He was hired simply on the merit of him being a former Alabama player. His record speaks for itself. He's NEVER been successful anywhere.. not just Bama.. ANYWHERE.
quote:Originally posted by imho:
Contradictory? 4 years is a blink of the eye in history. That isn't long enough for his recruits to be upper classmen (1st year he had no recruits of his).
quote:Originally posted by imho:
He was hired in part because HE WAS THE ONLY ONE to accept the lame duck position.
quote:Originally posted by imho:
Not successful? 10-2 in 2005 wasn't a success coming off probation? How soon people forget.
quote:Originally posted by imho:
According to ESPN no college football head coach has ever led two different schools to national titles. The Bear, Stallings, Spurier, Saban, all came to their schools without being the greatest of their time - most of them were historically losers - then they built something.
quote:Originally posted by MonkeysUncleByMarriage:
Secondly, his first recruits were juniors. Since when did that no longer be considered an upper classmen?
quote:Originally posted by MonkeysUncleByMarriage:
Personally, I was pulling for Croom.
quote:Originally posted by MonkeysUncleByMarriage:
Again, last year aside, he was 16-21.
quote:Originally posted by MonkeysUncleByMarriage:
Shula would've never built anything.
quote:Originally posted by MonkeysUncleByMarriage:
I think even the most ardent Shula supporter knew deep down this was PR more than a coach to lead us into the future. Shula is a nice guy and will run a clean program, be cordial to the media and smile when interviewed. That's what we needed form a public relations standpoint after Dubose, Fran, and Price.