🏈 Alabama football, May 4th, 20 years ago ...

 

[PurlJam]

May the 4 wasn't with him.

 

[rick4bama]

May have been the best thing that happen!

 

[PurlJam]

May have been the best thing that happen!

Hard to say Rick, unless we were in the room with him during the "show".

 

[50+yeartidefan]

What an embarrassment for all things BAMA

 

[bamafan9201]

Kinda funny that people were questioning at the time if Moore would keep his job, now we'd put a statue up for the man for what he brought to us.

 

[TerryP]

Kinda funny that people were questioning at the time if Moore would keep his job, now we'd put a statue up for the man for what he brought to us.

Hell, Coach Moore was the one that told Mike this was coming if he didn't change his ways...before the trip to 'Cola happened.

On another note, from a football perspective, Price was a better hire than Shula.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Interesting thought though,..what IF.... tebow choses Bama....instead of Florida
I know...
Goes with....what if bama hires Bowden instead of Perk

What if what if

 

[TideatMileHigh]

The sad thing is that the Price hire was actually pretty good all things considered. He was pretty decent at WSU

If only we knew the wild side of the man lol...

 

[TideatMileHigh]

Hell, Coach Moore was the one that told Mike this was coming if he didn't change his ways...before the trip to 'Cola happened.

On another note, from a football perspective, Price was a better hire than Shula.

Shula was a pure stop gap measure. I think he actually did a fairly decent job considering the situation. I'll always have a special place in my heart for his 2005 team

 

[UAgrad93]

I was in T’town for the 5A/6A state track and field meet that weekend. I left the Bailey complex and walked over the the Bryant Conference Center where they held the press conference. Wild times!!

 

[TerryP]

I'll always have a special place in my heart for his 2005 team

You carry a heart full of mirth?

 

[TideatMileHigh]

You carry a heart full of mirth?

Unlike most of this website, I was not born in the 1930s. I was born in 1994 and the 2005 team was the first time in my life where I saw Alabama field a team that was decent.

And yes I'm aware they had good teams in 1999 and 2002. But I was too busy watching SpongeBob to care about college football at that time

 

[bama alum]

@Destiny's Child , uhm...happy anniversary?

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Shula was a pure stop gap measure. I think he actually did a fairly decent job considering the situation. I'll always have a special place in my heart for his 2005 team

I am and was a big Shula fan. Met him. Liked him. Others dont. Ok

But the handicap he had.

2005 team was fun but ... the injury to Pro.. damn

And his OC and DC. Good lord!!!!! So bad!

 

[TerryP]

And his OC and DC. Good lord!!!!! So bad!

Joe Kines? He and Sparky are the only two coaches on that staff that I hold any respect towards. His defense was the 2005 team.

With a healthy Prothro and a healthy Closner that team would have still been exposed against LSU and Auburn. "So bad" is a compliment for that offensive line coaching job.

Aside from Shula, only two of the 10 coaches on the staff are still employed in football. Spark at UNC and Ball is at some directional school out west.

 

[TerryP]

And yes I'm aware they had good teams in 1999 and 2002. But I was too busy watching SpongeBob to care about college football at that time

We did have "suds Bob" in 2005.

Funny you mention '99 ... the '05 team had a lot of bad coaches, the '99 team had a lot of bad people who were coaches. And like '05, there are two on that staff I appreciate; Stubbs and Rouzie.

I don't know what Stubbs is doing now ... last I heard Rouzie was Director of Economic Development down in Foley.

Unlike most of this website, I was not born in the 1930s.

I'm not old enough to remember when Rouzie played in Tuscaloosa.

 

[TerryP]

I'm not old enough to remember when Rouzie played in Tuscaloosa.

For what it's worth ...

I'm betting it's somewhere around 1970.

 

[PurlJam]

@Destiny's Child , uhm...happy anniversary?

Happy ending is more like it.

 

[BAMAneck]

We just gotta stop that inside trap .