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re: Who are the top 3 FB coaches in your school's history?
Posted on 5/7/10 at 4:12 pm to CapstoneGrad06
Posted on 5/7/10 at 4:12 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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Alabama isn't the same program without Wade, Thomas, and Bryant. One could argue the foundation that Dinardo, Saban, and Miles have built on, wouldn't be there without the accomplishments of Dietzel and McClendon.
Thats because Bear Bryant is the face of Alabama football (correct me if I'm wrong?). When you think of the Alabama football program you think of Bryant and a few other figures.
I may be young, but when i think of the LSU football program McClendon & Dietzel aren't the first people who come to mind.
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Posted on 5/7/10 at 4:15 pm to sugatowng
Frank Broyles
Lou Holtz
Ken Hatfield
Lou Holtz
Ken Hatfield
Posted on 5/7/10 at 4:15 pm to TxTiger82
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And Dinardo sucked as a coach. Really. He was a decent recruiter, and had some decent years, but he choked whenever anybody expected anything from him....like Houston Nutt.
Let me elaborate, there were some good things about Dinaro.
He broke our six year bowl drought. He broke our nine year losing streak to Florida (who was #1 and defending champ at the time). He brought in Kevin Faulk.
But then there are the negatives....the Josh Booty saga. 1998. 1999. Losing to Ole Miss the game after beating the defending national champs. Thinking Texas players are better than Louisiana boys. You know...that kind of BS.
Posted on 5/7/10 at 4:16 pm to TxTiger82
I'll just say, as a guy who hated LSU, I loved Dinardo.
Posted on 5/7/10 at 4:17 pm to Emilio7
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I may be young, but when i think of the LSU football program McClendon & Dietzel
It is because you are young. Dinaro was a step forward from the travesty that was Hallman, but he was not the answer and he certainly wasn't one of our best coaches of all time.
Heck, I consider myself young, too...albeit older than yourself. I guess I just had LSU history ingrained in me from an early age.
LSU football did not start with Dinardo and Saban. We have a long tradition. We fell asleep for a few years starting with Archer and continuing through Hallman. That's it. We just took a decade long nap.
Posted on 5/7/10 at 4:20 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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Doesn't Arkansas have someone better than a 13-12 record to make second on that list? Lou Holtz perhaps?
record isn't everything when you come in during a rebuilding phase...Other coaches may have better records, but not better coaches IMO
Posted on 5/7/10 at 4:23 pm to TxTiger82
Passing on Spurrier for Archer after Arnsparger went to be the AD at Florida was the stupidest mistake in LSU football history.
Spurrier proceeded to take it out on us for the next 12 years or so.....97 was the one year where we stung him, and it was sweet.
Seriously though....if we had hired Spurrier, he would have been our coach up until his NFL departure. We would have kicked arse in the 1990s. Instead, we fricking sucked.
Spurrier proceeded to take it out on us for the next 12 years or so.....97 was the one year where we stung him, and it was sweet.
Seriously though....if we had hired Spurrier, he would have been our coach up until his NFL departure. We would have kicked arse in the 1990s. Instead, we fricking sucked.
This post was edited on 5/7/10 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 5/7/10 at 4:29 pm to BrooksnDunn
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BrooksnDunn
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any idea what it meant or where it came from?
("Bebes" is what she and all my close friends call me, the nickname my brother gave me as a child when he couldn't pronounce "Baby Gene").
"Another Season" - a book about Gene Stallings
Posted on 5/7/10 at 4:31 pm to TxTiger82
1. Frank Broyles: 71% win pct., 1 National title, 7 Conference Championships, 9 top 10 finishes.
2. Ken Hatfield: 76% win pct., 2 Conference Championships, 4 top 15 finishes.
3. Lou Holtz: 73% win pct., 1 Conference Championship, 4 top 10 finishes.
2. Ken Hatfield: 76% win pct., 2 Conference Championships, 4 top 15 finishes.
3. Lou Holtz: 73% win pct., 1 Conference Championship, 4 top 10 finishes.
Posted on 5/7/10 at 4:42 pm to NOLATide
NEYLAND (even Bear Bryant admired him).
Fulmer (he got us a National championship).
Majors (brought back the program from the abyss)
Dooley (will bring us back to the top...
Fulmer (he got us a National championship).
Majors (brought back the program from the abyss)
Dooley (will bring us back to the top...
Posted on 5/7/10 at 4:58 pm to brick
1. Darrel Royal. Won 3 national titles in an 8 year span.
2. Mack Brown. Highest winning %. 1 NC. Resurrected the program.
3. Fred Akers. Close to Brown's winning %. Coached in and lost what amounted to 2 national title games.
Some of Texas' most talented teams ever were in the early 80's, but Akers eventually let OU and aTm in the door at too many places recruiting-wise. The fall of Akers meant the rise of aTm for a good 10 year stretch.
2. Mack Brown. Highest winning %. 1 NC. Resurrected the program.
3. Fred Akers. Close to Brown's winning %. Coached in and lost what amounted to 2 national title games.
Some of Texas' most talented teams ever were in the early 80's, but Akers eventually let OU and aTm in the door at too many places recruiting-wise. The fall of Akers meant the rise of aTm for a good 10 year stretch.
This post was edited on 5/7/10 at 5:01 pm
Posted on 5/7/10 at 4:59 pm to LA kid but AU fan
Shug Jordan
Pat Dye
Tommy Tuberville
Pat Dye
Tommy Tuberville
Posted on 5/7/10 at 5:06 pm to BrooksnDunn
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Junction Boys
Faker than the movie adaptation of THe Blindside...
Posted on 5/7/10 at 5:12 pm to auzach91
I'm really ashamed at the Alabama fans, not mentioning Frank Thomas, and instead going with Wallace Wade. Wallace Wade had three undefeated seasons: 1925, 10-0, 1926, 9-0-1, & 1930, 10-0; was 2-0-1 in the Rose Bowl and had an .824 winning %. Frank Thomas also had 3 undefeated seasons, 1934, 10-0, 1936, 8-0-1 & 1945 10-0, was 2-1 in the Rose Bowl, and won the orange and cotton bowl as well, had a .827 winning %, and coached one Paul Bryant.
"All that bullshite about what happened at A&M, for just 8 days of practice! We had to put up with him for a month at Millersburg! I say Junction was a boyscout camp compared to what we went through!" Howard Schnellenberger on Bear's Junction practices.
"All that bullshite about what happened at A&M, for just 8 days of practice! We had to put up with him for a month at Millersburg! I say Junction was a boyscout camp compared to what we went through!" Howard Schnellenberger on Bear's Junction practices.
This post was edited on 5/7/10 at 5:21 pm
Posted on 5/7/10 at 5:24 pm to secfan123
Vaught
Tubbs
Miles
Tubbs
Miles
Posted on 5/7/10 at 5:46 pm to reb13
Heisman- He got a trophy named after him
Shug Jordan- He da man
Tater Tot Bowden- went undefeated with a probation team caused by Dye.
Chizik will surpass them all.
Shug Jordan- He da man
Tater Tot Bowden- went undefeated with a probation team caused by Dye.
Chizik will surpass them all.
Posted on 5/7/10 at 5:47 pm to Emilio7
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Thats because Bear Bryant is the face of Alabama football (correct me if I'm wrong?). When you think of the Alabama football program you think of Bryant and a few other figures.
I may be young, but when i think of the LSU football program McClendon & Dietzel aren't the first people who come to mind.
Again. Wade and Thomas are as vital to Alabama football, as Bryant is. Without them, Bryant never plays at Alabama, and certainly never coaches in Tuscaloosa. Which means, Stallings is never there, and Saban surely isn't. Youth has nothing to do with this realization. Just an understanding, and appreciation of history, and those that came before us. Those same principles apply to other proud programs, with long histories, such as LSU.
Posted on 5/7/10 at 5:49 pm to secfan123
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I'm really ashamed at the Alabama fans, not mentioning Frank Thomas
Don't lump me in. It seems I'm going to have to write a thesis on Thomas and Wade, for some of the posters in this thread to understand their worth to Alabama football.
This post was edited on 5/7/10 at 5:49 pm
Posted on 5/7/10 at 5:50 pm to NJReb
quote:Dye and Tubbs also had the advantage of coaching in a time when the NCAA was working to make things much more evenhanded across the CFB landscape. Jordan did what he did in an era of teams (notably Bama with Coach Bryant) being able to sign 100+ kids to scholarships just to keep the from playing for other teams.
Shug was never a great coach, in my opinion--just a decent one in an era when coaches rarely got fired unless they were really, really bad. Dye and Tubs were much more talented, IMO...
Posted on 5/7/10 at 5:50 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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Don't lump me in. It seems I'm going to have to right a thesis on Thomas and Wade, for some of the posters in this thread to understand their worth to Alabama football.
I'm not. I just thought the man who coached Bryant and had a higher winning % than wade deserved some props!
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