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Both did very little at ATM and both had success at Bama. Bryant became the greatest coach ever to live and Stallings coached one of the greatest defenses of all time.

Bryant did "very little" at A&M? Seriously?

He was there 4 years. My Dad was a Yell Leader in the Class of '58 so that was the 4 years he was in school and he knew Coach Bryant. In that 4 years he created a legend in the "Junction Boys". He took a team from 1-9 to winning the SWC and going undefeated 2 years later. In the course of that undefeated season was also the first A&M win at Texas' "new" stadium at the time which later became DKR (it was just Memorial Stadium back then). Then of course his final year he led A&M to their last #1 Ranking and had our only Heisman winner. Talk to any of those guys from that team (and I have) and they were on a mission to win the NC without question. When it got out that Coach was leaving it just crushed them and they lost the last 3 games by a total of 6 points.

One side note a lot of SEC folks probably don't know about is Bryant's first recruiting class that led that team couldn't play as Freshman and were not Junction Boys. The most famous was of course John David Crow who won the Heisman but he was not the feature recruit. The big name was actually another RB named Kenneth Hall. Hall actually still holds the NATIONAL High School record for career rushing at 11,232 yards and the NATIONAL High School scoring record at 32.9 points per game. This was in a mere 12 games where he rarely played in the 2nd half and yet the records still stand as does his avg of 337.1 Yards per game Rushing and 4.8 TDs per game. He had one game where he had 520 yards rushing on 11 carries for over a 47 yard average. The problem was back then they played both ways and he didn't like to play defense and had a bit of an ego so he and The Bear didn't see eye to eye and Hall quit the team and ended up in the CFL. Later on Bryant always expressed deep regret for how he pushed Hall and what could have been.