You are going to strike a chord here, Mando.
Perkins could, and should, have won one. But he was like Curry's sweaters; wrong place, wrong time.
I'll admit there is a bias here with it comes to Coach Stallings. I was on the sidelines covering him at that point. But good lord, you can't dismiss the success he had in Tuscaloosa. It was overshadowed by showmanship with SOS; but with Stallings it was a football coach.
I've never openly called for a Bama coach to be fired during the season: EXCEPT one. DuBose, after the loss to State. I wrote a piece about that when I was writing "Morning Musings" for another site. That's one coach I did not like. On the field, or off the field.