🏈 Tide must not squander this opportunity

[252BAMA]

Food for thought.

http://www.rollbamaroll.com/2010/1/19/1258507/tide-must-not-squander-this

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

Interesting perspective & fairly good points.

Something tells me though 'Bama isn't asleep at the wheel.

 

[bamafan4ever]

Alabama 1992 versus Alabama 2009? Apples and oranges. The inner structure isn't even close to being the same.

 

[Swamptick]

Interesting perspective & fairly good points.

Something tells me though 'Bama isn't asleep at the wheel.

I can assure you Head Coach Nick Saban is not asleep at the wheel. We are not talking about Les Miles or Tommy Tubberville here.

 

[Southern Bama]

Yea...Apples and oranges....no comparisons IMO

 

[alagator]

I can assure you Head Coach Nick Saban is not asleep at the wheel. We are not talking about Les Miles or Tommy Tubberville here.

Nor Gene Stallings. Or Hootie Ingram.

Our problems in the 1990s were the result of our own doing - much as the liked piece correctly asserts.

We turned what at most would have been a three game suspension into a decade long downward spiral trying to first cover up our effort at being loose with the eligibility rules and the subsequent internal power struggles.

And I would argue had Stallings told Ingram the complete truth Langham would have been suspended in January pending an internal review and Langham would have just declared for the draft and never competed for UA again - thus making the whole ordeal moot.

 

[psychojoe]

Finebaum had a good quote as the Langham affair unravelled. "Ingram turned a parking ticket into a prison sentence." Had all been done by the book, at worst we would have suspended Langham for the opener, and NCAA would have allowed us to reinstate after that. Not sure that Antonio would have left at that point had it been outed early.

Stallings and his staff were excellent coaches but nowhere near as strong at recruiting or administering. Saban pores over every detail to make sure things are done legally and done well. An assistant coach who isn't a good recruiter is unlikely to get a job with Saban.

 

[BamaDelta]

An assistant coach who isn't a good recruiter is unlikely to get a job with Saban.

Heck, someone who doesn't squirt the water the right way won't find himself as a water boy for long. The man doesn't accept mediocrity in anything.