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Or an AD that thinks hiring Jim Leavitt, Mike Price, Mike Shula, or Rich Rodriguez is a 'good' idea. Saban made up for all that but people forget Mal had some really bad ideas as AD as far as coaches go.

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There are generational players, and there are generational head coaches. But they are few and far between. Everyone else is just playing the lotto.

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Riley
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Beamer
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The only thing worse than a really bad head coach is a mediocre head coach with great resources and a talent pool. That's the gift that keeps giving.

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It's ok, everybody can be a Tiger at heart.

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It's not hopeless; the Amos Moses Airboat Academy is still taking applicants. Named it after a man of the cloth.

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Alabama 2009 Team Not Called For Holding for 34 Straight Quarters

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If I'm reading this correctly, you are trying to tell us that college football is nothing more than the WWE in pads. We can only rightly conclude from this narrative that this would naturally mean that all the superstitions that millions of fans have practiced, for countless decades, are really pointless and a waste of time. Can you not see the folly of such egregious and ridiculous speculation?

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He's a wannabe Tucker Carlson (but sports) with a desperate need for attention and a pattern of douche behavior.

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Actually, he is a big booster of Tennessee football. His vols are missing the spotlight he thinks will help them in this game. It's hard to get past that aspect to be more serious about SEC schedules.

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The highlight of his coaching career. He was a jerk to Saban during the postgame handshake over something Saban said.

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Rumors that Coach Saban was speaking derogatorily of Tuscaloosa from a so-called reporter who later said he made it up. Personally, BAMA got beat pretty bad the year before, BAMA was just in a mood for a pound of flesh. 31-0 in BR was part of all of that.

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Fran likely would have had moderate success, but the valleys would have been deeper than the peaks would be high. And, God love us, we are a passionate fan base, not a patient one

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Okay, so he left. You just described a man who wasn't handling the fan base. Can you call it what it was? PRESSURE. He felt what he felt; who's finding fault with that?

If you want to convince me that somehow someone has done Fran wrong, or that he feared a talent drain so he is now leaving BAMA for a second-tier team in College Station, uh, NO. The lights simply were not as bright in Texas. A famous philosopher put it best, "A man's got to know his limitations." I give him credit for knowing his.

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He knew it would severely impact performance and he had no real assurance or protection against that once the fans would have started calling for his head regardless of the situation

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The same BAMA fans that put up with Mike Shula's Jumbo Package for 4 years? Baloney.

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The administration screwed that up as much as anything in their representation of the severity of things to Fran. Relations grew very cold after the bomb dropped, and reality of the situation hit home.

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Explain how going 10-3 in 2002 was just too much for a head coach to handle?

It's more of a shame that Tyson doesn't know football well enough to insist on competent football people in the facility. Otherwise, it's just throwing money into a blasting furnace anyway.