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PERSPECTIVE: Alabama circa 2006
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:37 am
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:37 am
never forget how bad they were before Saban came back. think this is a shitshow? try getting rejected by Mike Riley Spurrier and Rich Rodriguez among others. everyone was eating them alive. then they landed their coach and have never looked back.
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Now, Alabama must renew its search for a replacement to Mike Shula, fired on Nov. 26 after going 6-6 in his fourth season.
Again, the once-mighty program was left Crimson in the face in another coaching search. The Tide is seeking its fifth coach since Gene Stallings stepped down in 1996. Stallings is the only coach to manage sustained success since the famed Bryant's retirement after the 1982 season.
That's not to say the program doesn't have plenty of allure for coaches, including Rodriguez, who called the Tide's interest "very, very flattering" in a conference call with Alabama reporters.
"When you get a call from Alabama, and if you're a college football fan, you say, 'Holy cow, it's Alabama. I think I've got to take this call,"' he said.
If taking the call is a no-brainer, the same can't necessarily be said for taking the job.
Alabama aimed high in this search, making overtures to South Carolina's Steve Spurrier and Nick Saban of the Miami Dolphins. Neither high-profile coach wanted to leave his current post.
Then, Moore's attention turned squarely to Rodriguez, who had both the offensive pedigree and the track record for winning the Tide program is seeking.
It wasn't clear who the Tide will turn to now, though the university's original wish list also included Navy's Paul Johnson, Wake Forest's Jim Grobe and possibly California's Jeff Tedford.
There have been no confirmed interviews with any of them.
Whoever takes the job will hope for better luck than the four coaches who tried to match Stallings' success. Mike DuBose and Mike Shula were former Tide players who failed to keep the winning going. Mike Price was fired for off-the-field behavior before coaching in a game, and Dennis Franchione jumped to Texas A&M after just two years in Tuscaloosa.
The latest coaching searches have also had some difficult twists. Then-New Orleans Saints assistant Mike Riley was offered the job before Price's hiring four years ago but wanted more time to also pursue the UCLA job. Alabama didn't give him that time, and Riley wound up going to Oregon State.
In 2000, Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer and Miami's Butch Davis turned Alabama down, before Franchione's hiring.
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This post was edited on 11/24/15 at 11:48 am
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Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:42 am to LSU Fan 90812
Remember this, Alabama was not all that attractive after the Albert Means fiasco. In a fair world , after what Logan Young and others did along with the acquiescence of Dubose and Mal Moore...and Paul Bryant, Jr., Alabama is lucky that it wasn't SMU. Their violations were just as bad if not worse
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:45 am to KiwiHead
exactly. they were dead. buried. we don't need that. we don't need a resurrection. we just need to go on a diet and get back to our fighting weight. moving from Les is a step in the right direction.
and this media circus surrounding Les is the same thing that happened with Stallings.
and this media circus surrounding Les is the same thing that happened with Stallings.
This post was edited on 11/24/15 at 11:46 am
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:48 am to LSU Fan 90812
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never forget how bad they were before Saban came back.
They were 22-13 (63%) Shula's last 3 years.
We are 25-11 (69%) in our last 3 years.
That isn't a huge difference.
ETA: Shula didn't coach the Indy Bowl loss. Corrected above.
This post was edited on 11/24/15 at 11:52 am
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:49 am to LSU Fan 90812
i remember when jim grobe was considered a frontrunner. what could've been 
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:50 am to LSU Fan 90812
much needed post, karmdawg. I had to step out of my shoes a bit too, late last night, before I could see the forest below. 
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:50 am to LSU Fan 90812
Shula also went 10-2 the year before. Funny how the media praises Bama but bash LSU even though they have a better case
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:50 am to LSU Fan 90812
Whoever the next hire is is what makes firing Miles the right or wrong decision.
Botch the hire and we're a joke. Nail the hire and we're back in the NC picture. All the pieces are in place.
Saban made firing Shula the correct choice. LSU admins better have something lined up.
Botch the hire and we're a joke. Nail the hire and we're back in the NC picture. All the pieces are in place.
Saban made firing Shula the correct choice. LSU admins better have something lined up.
This post was edited on 11/24/15 at 11:52 am
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:50 am to Waffle House
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were 22-14 (61%) Shula's last 3 years.
We are 25-11 (69%) in our last 3 years.
That isn't a huge difference.
true. but they were 6-6 the last year. my point is that they'd been struggling for years. and then they went through a crazy coaching search where they struck out multiple times.
I wouldn't call this a shitshow. I'd call this due diligence. THAT was a shitshow.
This post was edited on 11/24/15 at 11:52 am
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:52 am to Waffle House
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They were 22-14 (61%) Shula's last 3 years.
We are 25-11 (69%) in our last 3 years.
Yep. And they were criticized for canning Shula. "But..but...but he was 10-2 just last year!"
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:53 am to Alatgr
and they were called entitled and impatient. then they ponied up and brought the best college coach in America back to college. and have killed everyone ever since.
sometimes when you think you're underachieving, you actually are.
sometimes when you think you're underachieving, you actually are.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:57 am to Waffle House
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They were 22-14 (61%) Shula's last 3 years.
We are 25-11 (69%) in our last 3 years.
That isn't a huge difference.
There was a huge difference. Shula was 2-6 in the SEC on his way out. He was 6-6 overall that season.
This post was edited on 11/24/15 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 11/24/15 at 12:04 pm to Will2nd
so wait til we go 2-6?
Posted on 11/24/15 at 12:21 pm to EvrybodysAllAmerican
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Whoever the next hire is is what makes firing Miles the right or wrong decision.
That might be the perception, but it's unwarranted. Firing Miles IS the right decision. If we make a bad decision in hiring his replacement, that won't change the fact that this one (if we make it) is a good one.
If you're drowning, getting out of the water is a good decision. If after you get out of the water, you walk into the middle of a busy highway and get run over, that is a bad decision, but it still doesn't mean you should have stayed in the water and drowned.
This post was edited on 11/24/15 at 12:22 pm
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