🏈 Stark contrast in Mizzou and Alabama (UM renting empty dorm rooms on game days.)

[50+yeartidefan]

And historically, the power's that be, have nothing to do with our active HC or AD. So I doubt any of us are holding our breath on this one.

Exactly!

 

[50+yeartidefan]

All those non conference games are loseable but losing one to South alabama or UAB would be more damaging to us in perception and recruiting and since we are expected to blow them out we get nothing out of it if we win. I wish we would play a big ten team or acc team instead of any patsies but can't get some of them to play and the coaches try to schedule and easy weak and a pay day for some of these other schools

I dont really mine a c-usa opponent......its the xxx opponents i mine...
Mercer....Chattanooga....ga state....geeze...
And one a year...ummm ....ok...
But 3?????.... this year a little better...with Colorado state....

Well....if you lose to sanford, USA, UAB.....your program has problems anyway...
Bama is still Bama.... if and when things are bad...they turn around....
Even as bad as a lot of years were..every HC post BEAR had Bama ranked in top 5-6 during their pitiful stay....

 

[TerryP]

Even as bad as a lot of years were..every HC post BEAR had Bama ranked in top 5-6 during their pitiful stay....

I'd have to look this one up just to be sure (and it's a bit surprising--to me, at least--I've never bothered to look.

Post Bryant, every coach had a team ranked top five or six. Hrrmmm.

We'd have to include preseason polls for that to apply to DuBose, wouldn't we?

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I'd have to look this one up just to be sure (and it's a bit surprising--to me, at least--I've never bothered to look.

Post Bryant, every coach had a team ranked top five or six. Hrrmmm.

We'd have to include preseason polls for that to apply to DuBose, wouldn't we?

Yea may have to have Dubose preseason
Don't remember where they were before Orange Bowl vs Michigan and Tom Brady
but we were highly ranked..and optimistic

And Coach Fran was 5-7 otherwise it would have been top 3 I believe
Yea kind of surprising. But my point is/was..its Bama.. no matter the storm.. Bama can survive..
Tennessee fans are saying...its what Bama went through...(them at present)... Not!!

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Just looked it up
Was #5 before Michigan
But coach fran was only to #9
All others were top 5...or better
Perkins #2
Curry # 4
Stalling #1
Dubose #3
Fran #9
Shula # 4
Saban # 1
Pretty impressive

 

[TerryP]

Just looked it up
Was #5 before Michigan
But coach fran was only to #9
All others were top 5...or better
Perkins #2
Curry # 4
Stalling #1
Dubose #3
Fran #9
Shula # 4
Saban # 1
Pretty impressive

Idle thoughts ...

Perkins: No championships even with that #2 ranking.
Curry: Had a share of one SEC with two other teams.
DuBose: A lot of factors going into that '99 run, but he does have a ring.
fRan: What might have been IF.
Shula: No ring even with that '05 season--not as good as the win total suggests.

On the same note ...

In my view of seasonal records, 10 wins doesn't carry as much weight as it used to several years ago. The best possible record comes with two losses--could be four.

In UA history based 10 win seasons, you have to dig to find the second coach who didn't reach that bookmark—Ears being the first. I want to say there were three, total, who coached at least one season with 10 games and didn't win at least 10 games in their tenure. (There's a 7-3 , a 6-4, maybe?)

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Idle thoughts ...

Perkins: No championships even with that #2 ranking.
Curry: Had a share of one SEC with two other teams.
DuBose: A lot of factors going into that '99 run, but he does have a ring.
fRan: What might have been IF.
Shula: No ring even with that '05 season--not as good as the win total suggests.

On the same note ...

In my view of seasonal records, 10 wins doesn't carry as much weight as it used to several years ago. The best possible record comes with two losses--could be four.

In UA history based 10 win seasons, you have to dig to find the second coach who didn't reach that bookmark—Ears being the first. I want to say there were three, total, who coached at least one season with 10 games and didn't win at least 10 games in their tenure. (There's a 7-3 , a 6-4, maybe?)

But they all climbed into the national rankings...even with or without a championship...that says a lot for being Bama....
A break here or there...and .....well....who knows

 

[TUSKtimes]

Had the wind been slightly blowing in a different direction Bama's world could have been drastically different. I think about Perkin's success and realize he was a much better player than a head coach. Had the barners not stunk it up with Doug Barfield and Pat Dye been available as the Bama choice we would have had 15 more years with the wishbone and I do believe he would have been even more successful than what he built at Alabama east. If we had asked an already proven Alabama boy to come home in Bobby Bowden think of Alabama's football legacy through the 80's and 90's as a perennial power? We really were, oh so close, twice, in keeping the Coach Bryant momentum going in the 2 decades following his death.

 

[musso]

While I don't deny the civil unrest in Missouri is a factor here, there are other contributing factors to declining freshman enrollment all over the country. I've shared this before (a long time ago), but the disruption we are seeing in the form of 3-D printing, block-chain and P2P technology, online learning, etc., plus viable alternatives to the debt-heavy college experience threatens the whole college football industry. At some point, the NFL is going to have to step in and assume ownership of its NCAA minor league. A Bernie-inspired program to make college degrees free could possibly bail out traditional Higher Ed for a while, but then again, I doubt that will stem the trending social justice mentality on many campuses which is turning many families off.

 

[planomateo]

At a time with almost every college/university is seeing MAJOR growth.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Gary Pinkel was a very wise man.