🏈 Looking back over Saban's career: Assistant coaches- your favorite, and who you wish would have never stepped foot on campus.

[TerryP]

This question was brought up yesterday and I'm still struggling a bit with the answers:

My favorites would include Pendy, Davis, and Burns.

When it comes to other others? I'm still playing with the scales!

Take Enos. I hate the way he stuck his tail between his legs and ran off in the night when he realized he wasn't getting promoted. But, I have to weigh that against the job he did with Jalen in that off-season.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Having Kirby n kiffin on same sideline. At same time

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

This question was brought up yesterday and I'm still struggling a bit with the answers:

My favorites would include Pendy, Davis, and Burns.

When it comes to other others? I'm still playing with the scales!

Take Enos. I hate the way he stuck his tail between his legs and ran off in the night when he realized he wasn't getting promoted. But, I have to weigh that against the job he did with Jalen in that off-season.

McElwain and Kiffin. Doug Marrone.

 

[Kamikazi18627]

Bill Obrien. Was not a fan of that guy. I hated the idea of lining up in shotgun on 1st and goal from the 2 the way that guy would constantly make that choice. Seems like the UT game and LSU game could have gone differently if we could have just pound the rock on goal line situations.


Kirby is the obvious choice. Never worried about the defense when he was the coordinator.

 

[TerryP]

McElwain and Kiffin. Doug Marrone.

All good?

Marrone? Geez. That's a tough one. That OL group in '21 followed one of the two best we've seen this century: '12 and '20.

That is a tough scale to judge upon.

 

[TerryP]

Bill Obrien. Was not a fan of that guy. I hated the idea of lining up in shotgun on 1st and goal from the 2 the way that guy would constantly make that choice. Seems like the UT game and LSU game could have gone differently if we could have just pound the rock on goal line situations.


Kirby is the obvious choice. Never worried about the defense when he was the coordinator.

3rd and Kirby's?

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Kiffin could serve as both answers for me, but I'll go in a different direction...

Really liked Pruitt and wonder at times what things would have been like had he stuck around (or not become radioactive and had been able to return promptly after this Tennessee stop). Least one is tough... Saban had some whiffs and also had handful of hires that looked like good hires on the surface but they didn't adapt well and/or handle the grind well. A guy I just do not like though is Josh Gattis.

Honorable mention on favorites... Sal Sunseri, McElwain, Napier, Bruns, & Pendry.

 

[Rsedge72]

Dan lanning
Mike locksley
Jim mcelwain
Billy napier
As far as head coaches

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

Kiffin could serve as both answers for me, but I'll go in a different direction...

Really liked Pruitt and wonder at times what things would have been like had he stuck around (or not become radioactive and had been able to return promptly after this Tennessee stop). Least one is tough... Saban had some whiffs and also had handful of hires that looked like good hires on the surface but they didn't adapt well and/or handle the grind well. A guy I just do not like though is Josh Gattis.

Honorable mention on favorites... Sal Sunseri, McElwain, Napier, Bruns, & Pendry.

Pruitt is a good one.

 

[TerryP]

A guy I just do not like though is Josh Gattis.

 

[Kamikazi18627]

3rd and Kirby's?

Welllll. lol


That d coordinator that Kiffin hired, forget his name. He stunk. Putting Will Anderson into pass coverage against UT in 2022……..what are you doing man??

 

[TerryP]

Welllll. lol


That d coordinator that Kiffin hired, forget his name. He stunk. Putting Will Anderson into pass coverage against UT in 2022……..what are you doing man??

Tosh came close to making an "also-ran" category when thinking about this ... but he was a decent recruiter.

 

[alabama mike]

Didn’t care for, Gattis.

Wish we still had him as OC, Sark or Kiffin.

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

Without mentioning others, Jeff Stoutland. He is a hell of a good offensive line coach.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Without mentioning others, Jeff Stoutland. He is a hell of a good offensive line coach.

He should have been on my honorable mention list. Good pick.

 

[64Tide]

Gattis /Enos. Useless
Actually preferred seeing Pruitt on sidelines vs the imitator. Sark Kiffin Stoutland Pendry Burns

 

[Justneedme81]

This is hard. If I have to nagivate through this I would say that:

Inconsistent play calling- Bill O'Brien OMG, He would piss me off with the way he would call the game and keep going back to plays that wasn't working. on Defensive side, I would say Tosh Lupoi. He was horrible and was over his head. You could say Peter Golding but I feel like he wasn't that bad and his defense at Ole Miss is better because of more freedom to call outside the scope, something he didn't have at Alabama.

DL- Roach. I wouldn't mind if he never came back to Alabama.

Some of the names such as Dan Eno and the way he handled his leaving. Josh Gattis, etc.

 

[mando]

Probably have to say Smart with his longevity and how the defense performed overall. I did like Pruitt's attitiude as a defensive guy.
Least favorite probably Tosh or O'Brien.

 

[UAgrad93]

List of favorites- McElwain, Pendry, Burns, Sark, Kiffin, Stoutland

Wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire- Enos, Gattis- for the ‘18 finale alone O’Brien - for his goalline offense

 

[bamaledge]

Kirby good

Terrible bob