🏈 Twelve Years Ago Today...

[bama alum]

BOOOOOOOOM!!



12 years ago today, this man accepted the head coaching position at The University of Alabama.

142 wins, 6 SEC Championships, 5 National Championships, and 2 Heisman Trophies later, the story is still being written.

 

[BamaFan334]

Eighteen years ago today Dale Earnhardt died. The day Nascar died and Alabama rose again.

 

[UAgrad93]

A ton of thanks should be heaped upon the late Coach Mal Moore. Remember, he wasn't coming back on that plane from Miami without him!!! He won Miss Terry and the rest was, as they say, HISTORY!!!

 

[OriginalBamachris]

Saban Hired (From RollTide.com)

 

[OriginalBamachris]

His First OC at Bama

 

[OriginalBamachris]

Saban Hired (From RollTide.com)

Transcript from First Presser

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Happy 12-Year Anniversary, Coach!

-Signed,
Bama Nation

 

[50+yeartidefan]

And now....many broken headsets later...

 

[rick4bama]

Where the photo of the lady going up and kissing him!

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

Thanks Mal

Lynyrd Skynyrd

You got that right
Said, you got that right
Sure got that right

 

[Bamabww]

And to give everyone a laugh at the know-it-alls of our neighboring state fish wrapper.

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Jeff Schultz, when Saban took over at Alabama . . .

But know this about Saban: He was miserable in the NFL, and in time he’ll be miserable in Tuscaloosa. Perhaps college football is where he belongs, but he picked the wrong place at the wrong time to ease his throbbing temples.

Alabama used to be a top 10 job. Today Alabama is a cartoon. It’s symbolic of everything that is wrong about college athletics. (Most recent evidence: giving $32 million to a football coach). Saban is the Crimson Tide’s seventh coach since Bear Bryant left. He’s the fifth in eight years (counting Mike Price, who held the position only for an offseason of lap dances).

There are at least five schools in the SEC with more strength, stability and promise: Georgia, Florida, LSU, Tennessee, Auburn. (Alabama gets the edge overSouth Carolina only because of the alphabet.)

 

[Rolltide24]

Dale Earnhardt died on Feb 18, 2001.

But dang, I know we were all excited when they made this announcement, but did any of us realize what we/he had in store? 5 national championships in the first 11 season. About to be 6 in 12.... And all these SEC championships. Playing for 7 NCs in 12 years. Just unimaginable. No one could have dreamed he’d have this much success. Crazy!

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

And to give everyone a laugh at the know-it-alls of our neighboring state fish wrapper.

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Jeff Schultz, when Saban took over at Alabama . . .

But know this about Saban: He was miserable in the NFL, and in time he’ll be miserable in Tuscaloosa. Perhaps college football is where he belongs, but he picked the wrong place at the wrong time to ease his throbbing temples.

Alabama used to be a top 10 job. Today Alabama is a cartoon. It’s symbolic of everything that is wrong about college athletics. (Most recent evidence: giving $32 million to a football coach). Saban is the Crimson Tide’s seventh coach since Bear Bryant left. He’s the fifth in eight years (counting Mike Price, who held the position only for an offseason of lap dances).

There are at least five schools in the SEC with more strength, stability and promise: Georgia, Florida, LSU, Tennessee, Auburn. (Alabama gets the edge overSouth Carolina only because of the alphabet.)

Schultz was the typical useless F liberal mouthpiece. The breed that lead to GT thinking they were special enough to leave the SEC in 64.