So true. As an example, I'd like to recycle a fun fact about Curry that I've mentioned before. Of the 6 Alabama HCs between Bryant and Saban, from 1983 to 2007, the guy they ran out of town had the best winning percentage at .722:
Funny, there were times when TFG was coaching I yearned for the days of Chan Gailey.So true. As an example, I'd like to recycle a fun fact about Curry that I've mentioned before. Of the 6 Alabama HCs between Bryant and Saban, from 1983 to 2007, the guy they ran out of town had the best winning percentage at .722:
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You are speaking of Gene Stallings who was one of Bryant's boys. He was one of the infamous "Junction Boys" that were part of Bear Bryant's first team at Texas A&M
On that list were two coaches that coached Alabama back to back. Wallace Wade and Frank Thomas during the 1930s and 1940s both of whom finished with exact same winning percentage .812. Wallace Wade was Bear Bryant's coach when he played end on Alabama's Rose Bowl championship team. Many years later that team held a reunion with everyone including Bear smoking a cigarette. When Coach Wade walked into the room every man hastily put out his smoke knowing that Wade hated cigarettes. Bear admitted in his autobiography that the one man that intimidated him was Wallace Wade.
Poor Ray Perkins. He was the sacrificial lamb chosen to follow Bear Bryant. Even though he was an All American end for Bryant, a former NFL player and coach, an intense man who gave it everything he had, he ran into the follow the legend trap. What do Ray Perkins, Doug Barfield, Ron Zook, and Bud Carson have in common? All of them had the misfortune of following legendary coaches and were abject failures.So true. As an example, I'd like to recycle a fun fact about Curry that I've mentioned before. Of the 6 Alabama HCs between Bryant and Saban, from 1983 to 2007, the guy they ran out of town had the best winning percentage at .722:
List of Alabama Crimson Tide football coaches - Bhamwiki
Took the team out in the desert in a bus and came back in a pickup truck. Wasn't John David Crowe on that team.
Another fun fact is that Curry recruited the foundation of players that Gene Stallings won a national championship with. If my totally biased memory serves me.So true. As an example, I'd like to recycle a fun fact about Curry that I've mentioned before. Of the 6 Alabama HCs between Bryant and Saban, from 1983 to 2007, the guy they ran out of town had the best winning percentage at .722:
List of Alabama Crimson Tide football coaches - Bhamwiki
So true. As an example, I'd like to recycle a fun fact about Curry that I've mentioned before. Of the 6 Alabama HCs between Bryant and Saban, from 1983 to 2007, the guy they ran out of town had the best winning percentage at .722:
List of Alabama Crimson Tide football coaches - Bhamwiki
I know the pain of the TFG is still fresh and raw, but Lewis wrecked a program shortly removed from a NC and set us back a decade. IMO, that's a greater sin than what Collins did. I think, due to recency bias, we tend to blur out what our program had been in the 3-4 years prior to his arrival. I know this debate is like choosing between Hitler and Stalin but I don't think it will take as long to recover from the Lewis debacle. Heck, Key restored us back to our historical .500 level in just 8 games. For the record, this IS NOT to be construed in any ways as a voice of support for TFG. I am as glad as the next guy that he is no longer here.
Collins set us back pretty far. What he did to the attendance was brutal
I can’t imagine football fans being so petty.
Yeah, that’s another metric that sticks out for me. I’ve never seen fan support this low. Even after Lewis there were fans who couldn’t wait to get back to the stadium after he was gone. Now we have large swaths of fans who have decided football is no longer worth it compared to life’s other pleasures.
UT didn't want him gone after 1 year. They wanted him to build something and he dashed away to the west coast.
Kiffin only coached at UT for one year. They hated him for leaving after his first year. He was 7-6 that year. There were some marital issues buried in there about that time. I think he saw USC as a better job and not as tough to compete as the SEC. His job has gotten tougher at Ole Miss with Tx and OU coming in. I am no fan of his and don't like the fact he seems to be targeting some of our better players as transfers. Maybe he has his eye on the Bama job when Saban retires.
I have lots of UT family, and they wanted him fired halfway through the year. His wins were against Western Kentucky, Ohio, an unranked UGA, South Carolina, Memphis, Vandy, and a bad Kentucky team.
A little more complicated than that. Fulmer went 5-7 in his last year and an internal revolt forced him out. Kiffin came in a most everyone I know there, including letterman, David he brought an exciting brand of football back to UT. They were hopeful. Yes, he went 7-6 but … more exciting than Fulmer.
Folks forget he had Bama (at home) on the ropes. A blocked field goal, with a sec or 2 left on the clock that the refs took off so T Cody wouldn't have a penalty for removing his helmet during a live ball, was the difference.
