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re: Ranking Alabama hires during my lifetime (and since the Bear)
Posted on 1/13/24 at 9:03 am to Decker
Posted on 1/13/24 at 9:03 am to Decker
If we are basing this hire solely on the perception at the time then Fran has to be at 4. Yeah, he turned out to be a snake oil salesman, but he was a fairly hot commodity when we grabbed him from TCU.
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Posted on 1/13/24 at 9:37 am to Decker
Perkins was not sub par. He came from the NFL.
Franchione, while a rat fink, was pretty good, he just bailed because he didn't want to face the NCAA results. They say he was misled.
Price was a good hire on paper and I think we would have won decently with him...he just couldn't handle it.
Shula faced the music that Francione wouldn't....he wasn't great, but those sanctions were devastating.
Ranking Daboer anywhere is premature.
Franchione, while a rat fink, was pretty good, he just bailed because he didn't want to face the NCAA results. They say he was misled.
Price was a good hire on paper and I think we would have won decently with him...he just couldn't handle it.
Shula faced the music that Francione wouldn't....he wasn't great, but those sanctions were devastating.
Ranking Daboer anywhere is premature.
Posted on 1/13/24 at 9:44 am to Grievous Angel
I could be wrong, but my perception is people were ok with the Perkins hire but not stoked about it.
Fran was a good hire for that moment but honestly our expectations had dropped so much.
How things would have gone with Price is a great “what if”. Maybe Brodie would have thrown for 3000 yards in his wide open offense. Maybe we would have crashed and burned. We will never know. But the reception was pretty meh. Most people didn’t know who he was.
Poor Shula. The sacrificial lamb.
Fran was a good hire for that moment but honestly our expectations had dropped so much.
How things would have gone with Price is a great “what if”. Maybe Brodie would have thrown for 3000 yards in his wide open offense. Maybe we would have crashed and burned. We will never know. But the reception was pretty meh. Most people didn’t know who he was.
Poor Shula. The sacrificial lamb.
Posted on 1/13/24 at 9:46 am to TheTideMustRoll
You might be right. I remember him wearing that red tie to the Heisman ceremony and being excited. Although, in hindsight, that was kind of crappy.
Posted on 1/13/24 at 9:50 am to Decker
1) no argument there
2) was a walk on his first season, closest thing to Coach Bryant-legitimately cared about every single person inside the entire football complex. Sorensen and Bockrath pushed him out.
3) Perkins here for me. First to attempt to take over for the GOAT.
4) DeBoer- has the cahones to replace our latest and greatest GOAT and accepts the challenge!
5) Shula- the bandaid that got himself ripped away because he refused to make changes.
6) Curry- first attempt to break away from being one of “Bear’s boys”. I was a walk on his last season. He told us at the 30 year reunion for the ‘89 SEC championship team that we were a damn good team and would’ve been National Champions had we had a better HC.
7)Francione I had high hopes for him because he came in saying all of the right things and then bailed like a thief in the night when the sanctions from DuBose era came down. How he left will always sit poorly with me.
8) Price- got my hopes up to see some offense where it was more than 3 yards and a cloud of dust. Instead we got 1 Spring and a fat arse old man and a Stripper partying on UA’s dime.
9) DuBose- I never agreed with his hiring as HC and I didn’t as DC the year before him taking over after Stallings. The old guard stepped in to reinforce the “Bear’s boy” hiring practice and it was an immediate failure. How in the Hell that buffoon won a title in ‘99 is beyond me. Bagman Dabo worked pretty hard I guess.
2) was a walk on his first season, closest thing to Coach Bryant-legitimately cared about every single person inside the entire football complex. Sorensen and Bockrath pushed him out.
3) Perkins here for me. First to attempt to take over for the GOAT.
4) DeBoer- has the cahones to replace our latest and greatest GOAT and accepts the challenge!
5) Shula- the bandaid that got himself ripped away because he refused to make changes.
6) Curry- first attempt to break away from being one of “Bear’s boys”. I was a walk on his last season. He told us at the 30 year reunion for the ‘89 SEC championship team that we were a damn good team and would’ve been National Champions had we had a better HC.
7)Francione I had high hopes for him because he came in saying all of the right things and then bailed like a thief in the night when the sanctions from DuBose era came down. How he left will always sit poorly with me.
8) Price- got my hopes up to see some offense where it was more than 3 yards and a cloud of dust. Instead we got 1 Spring and a fat arse old man and a Stripper partying on UA’s dime.
9) DuBose- I never agreed with his hiring as HC and I didn’t as DC the year before him taking over after Stallings. The old guard stepped in to reinforce the “Bear’s boy” hiring practice and it was an immediate failure. How in the Hell that buffoon won a title in ‘99 is beyond me. Bagman Dabo worked pretty hard I guess.
Posted on 1/13/24 at 9:51 am to Decker
Had Perkins stayed I think he would have been successful and just think how many others that followed would never have been a HC at Bama. Assuming he stayed 20 years. Gene and Dubose for sure
Posted on 1/13/24 at 1:06 pm to UAgrad93
Great insight, thanks
Posted on 1/13/24 at 2:27 pm to Decker
I would put DeBoer ahead of Stallings. I don’t think anyone was turning cartwheels over Stallings in 1990.
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