After Coach Bryant retired...the next Coach

was Perkins. He was absolutely killing it in recruiting his last couple of years. Our talent was down.

The fanbase was intolorible. Wanted to run him off 1st year after he removed the tower coach Bryant sat in and drank as he watched over the practices.

Then we got the desciple brothers. Made it clear in a provocative statement that Alabama would no longer be known as a "Football Factory"
Boosters went crazy. Bill Curry asking the FBI to look into fan threats. (no doubt he had many) ...fun times.

Stallings was stand up man. Not the cheating liar the NCAA tried to portray him as...although Mike Dubose was similar to Freeze with the religious, cheating, adultry.

.....but, had Perkins stayed he would probably had the program back to wining rather quickly.

I say all that to make the point it is possible (not likely) for the coach that follows Saban to have success.