🏈 Not to beat a dead horse

[rammerjammer]

On the Haynesworth diarrhea of the mouth thead.....we got off subject a little bit talking about the Shula vs Croom hire. @TerryP made a statement that neither were good hires, but it was more or less what he had to settle for given the timing and state of the program.

I would go through all of that hell again to get Nick Saban and enjoy this Dynasty that we are currently enjoying. Having said all that.



With the timing of Price being fired and Shula being hired, I always maintained that we should have let Kines be the interim for that season. I certainly don't think he could have done any worse. That would have got us through the first year of sanctions, and there would have been only one year left (sanctions) for whomever we would have hired in 2004. During the Shula years, I was aggravated that we could have probably landed either Spurrier or Butch Davis, who left the NFL in 2004. It would have been interesting to see what Spurrier could do at Bama. He and Bill Oliver had a lot of mutual respect for one another, and I think he would have tried to hire Oliver had he came to Bama.

Mind you, I would suffer through another 4 years of Shula sucking, in order to get Saban, but that would have been entertaining for sure.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

On the Haynesworth diarrhea of the mouth thead.....we got off subject a little bit talking about the Shula vs Croom hire. @TerryP made a statement that neither were good hires, but it was more or less what he had to settle for given the timing and state of the program.

I would go through all of that hell again to get Nick Saban and enjoy this Dynasty that we are currently enjoying. Having said all that.



With the timing of Price being fired and Shula being hired, I always maintained that we should have let Kines be the interim for that season. I certainly don't think he could have done any worse. That would have got us through the first year of sanctions, and there would have been only one year left (sanctions) for whomever we would have hired in 2004. During the Shula years, I was aggravated that we could have probably landed either Spurrier or Butch Davis, who left the NFL in 2004. It would have been interesting to see what Spurrier could do at Bama. He and Bill Oliver had a lot of mutual respect for one another, and I think he would have tried to hire Oliver had he came to Bama.

Mind you, I would suffer through another 4 years of Shula sucking, in order to get Saban, but that would have been entertaining for sure.

the fact is...was....shula vs croom was more interesting topic than Albert H...
And ur right its ......... beating.......



and really...things couldnt have worked out better

 

[TerryP]

@rammerjammer while we'll never know I do believe Butch would have had an incredible run here. Right in the palm of their hands and they let him slip through

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Heck, let's go back to all the what-ifs...Stallings follows Coach Bryant? Bobby Bowden follows Perkins or Curry? Riley-Spurrier-Rich Rod-Beamer?

It's hard to overstate the blessed, charmed and glorious apparatus that is Alabama football. We have had 46 years of Coach Bryant, Coach Stallings and Coach Saban, with a mere 16 years of wilderness wandering in the interim. And I must add that during our unpleasant times, Coaches Curry and Dubose both delivered SEC championships.

We're the only SEC football team to win at least one SECC in every decade of the SEC's existence. 41 ten-win seasons. For the record, Oklahoma has 39, I believe, and then it drops to Michigan (29), and then Nebraska, Ohio State and USC all tied at 27.

Beat that dead horse. Roll around on it. Make bracelets, pottery and brushes with it. We have a history and a present. Drink it in.

RTR,

Tim

 

[TideatMileHigh]

What ifs are fun. It would've been interesting if Mike Price wasn't such a degenerate ass in 2003. I think Brodie Croyle would've thrived in his offense.