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Ranking Alabama hires during my lifetime (and since the Bear)
Posted on 1/12/24 at 4:43 pm
Posted on 1/12/24 at 4:43 pm
This is biased by hindsight, but
1. Saban (best hire in football history)
2. Stallings (daddy Gene was the perfect Bama man)
3. DeBoer
4. Perkins
5. Dubose (had a glimmer of hope he would be ok)
6. Curry
7. Fran
8. Shula
9. Price
After number 3 they were all subpar. Fran felt like the best we could get at the time. Shula was desperation.
Edit: can't believe I forgot Dubose. PTSD I guess.
1. Saban (best hire in football history)
2. Stallings (daddy Gene was the perfect Bama man)
3. DeBoer
4. Perkins
5. Dubose (had a glimmer of hope he would be ok)
6. Curry
7. Fran
8. Shula
9. Price
After number 3 they were all subpar. Fran felt like the best we could get at the time. Shula was desperation.
Edit: can't believe I forgot Dubose. PTSD I guess.
This post was edited on 1/12/24 at 4:47 pm
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Posted on 1/12/24 at 4:50 pm to Decker
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9. Price
shite. I wish I was 18 and could have partied with him.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 4:51 pm to UASports23
I was a walk on during his brief tenure. Would have been an interesting season. There were rumors about him staying out late and drinking with students but I never saw it firsthand.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 4:54 pm to Decker
Dubose has to be further down the list. Was god awful and left us in awful shape and on probation. He might be last.
All the other coaches got other coaching opportunities at a high level. No one wanted that piece of shite but a dinky high school
All the other coaches got other coaching opportunities at a high level. No one wanted that piece of shite but a dinky high school
Posted on 1/12/24 at 4:55 pm to Decker
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2. Stallings (daddy Gene was the perfect Bama man)
Can make an argument Stallings got lucky. He was a loser everywhere else, was a terrible recruiter at Alabama and was in charge when Bama’s NCAA problems started.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 4:58 pm to Sandkhan
I tried to rank them based on the perception at the time. Several had the same trajectory as Dubose: disappointing hire, good season leading to unrealistic expectations, then destruction.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 5:01 pm to Decker
Fran at 5. He did a pretty good job minus the Auburn game in 2002.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 5:03 pm to Sandkhan
The one thing Dubose did accomplish was beat Spurrier (twice in one year) and win an SEC championship (unless I'm dreaming all that, but in my dream I was at the championship game, and it seemed so real).
This post was edited on 1/12/24 at 5:04 pm
Posted on 1/12/24 at 5:19 pm to 87Grad
Shaun Alexander and Chris Samuels did that. Dubose just sat there collecting a check and sweat under his man tits
This post was edited on 1/12/24 at 6:58 pm
Posted on 1/12/24 at 5:33 pm to Decker
1. Saban
2. Stallings
3. DeBoer - could move up.
4. Perkins
5. Dubose
6. Shula - never had a fair shake due to probation numbers and major injuries, but still had a 10 win season.
7. Fran - hamstrung by scholly reductions
8. Curry
9. Price
2. Stallings
3. DeBoer - could move up.
4. Perkins
5. Dubose
6. Shula - never had a fair shake due to probation numbers and major injuries, but still had a 10 win season.
7. Fran - hamstrung by scholly reductions
8. Curry
9. Price
Posted on 1/12/24 at 5:36 pm to 87Grad
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The one thing Dubose did accomplish was beat Spurrier (twice in one year) and win an SEC championship (unless I'm dreaming all that, but in my dream I was at the championship game, and it seemed so real).
Proudly can say....I was at both games
Ahh that flag for offsides after the missed PAT
Posted on 1/12/24 at 5:40 pm to Decker
Dubose was a basically one of those wind up monkeys with the cymbals. A total clown. #8
Posted on 1/12/24 at 8:35 pm to Decker
Two things I'll never forget from my time at the Capstone.
1) As a freshman in 2000, walking across the Quad for a Monday, 8 a.m. class (wth was I thinking?) After losing to either LSU or UCF and seeing a Dubose dummy, complete with sweater and headset, hanging from a tree on the Quad.
2) After Fran left us someone posted his cell on the front door of the Corner Store(RIP). I called it and his VM was absolutely him. My friends and I called it later that night and someone hacked his VM, changed the message and it said something to the effect of: "you have reached coach Fran. I'm the lying son of a bitch that left yall hanging in the middle of the night... blah, blah." It was classic. And there was a car that someone had written on the back glass: "Fran, your heart may be in Texas, but your daughter's flower stays in T-town." Ouch.
1) As a freshman in 2000, walking across the Quad for a Monday, 8 a.m. class (wth was I thinking?) After losing to either LSU or UCF and seeing a Dubose dummy, complete with sweater and headset, hanging from a tree on the Quad.
2) After Fran left us someone posted his cell on the front door of the Corner Store(RIP). I called it and his VM was absolutely him. My friends and I called it later that night and someone hacked his VM, changed the message and it said something to the effect of: "you have reached coach Fran. I'm the lying son of a bitch that left yall hanging in the middle of the night... blah, blah." It was classic. And there was a car that someone had written on the back glass: "Fran, your heart may be in Texas, but your daughter's flower stays in T-town." Ouch.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 8:57 pm to Decker
What are you basing your rankings on? Pre-hire hype, obviously, because Mike Shula ultimately should be ranked ahead of Curry, Fran, and Price.
Bill Curry never should have gotten a fricking interview.
Bill Curry never should have gotten a fricking interview.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 8:58 pm to JackieTreehorn
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Dubose was a basically one of those wind up monkeys with the cymbals. A total clown. #8
Is there any more scathing indictment of an allegedly top tier SEC football program than the simple fact that Mike Dubose has won an SEC championship more recently than the Tennessee Vols?
Posted on 1/12/24 at 10:12 pm to Bama2004
I forgot about the Corner Store!
I was at Bama the same time as you.
I was at Bama the same time as you.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 10:13 pm to BamaGradinTn
I was basing them on pre hire opinion. I don’t really remember Perkins hiring, I’ve just read about it. I remember with Curry feeling kind of meh but hopeful.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 10:17 pm to Decker
A BIG no on Stallings. I think DeBoer is the best hire other than Saban.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 10:37 pm to RiverCityTider
Why no on Stallings? I think the world of him as a person.
Posted on 1/13/24 at 8:34 am to Decker
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1. Saban (best hire in football history) 2. Stallings (daddy Gene was the perfect Bama man) 3. DeBoer 4. Perkins 5. Dubose (had a glimmer of hope he would be ok) 6. Curry 7. Fran 8. Shula 9. Price
You can’t really rank DeBoer before he coaches a game here.
Fran is better than Dumbose. I hate how he left us too but he was a much better coach. I’m too young(but still getting old lol) to have experienced Perkins and Curry so I won’t pass judgement. However, I don’t believe either got us on probation and led to the darkest era in Bama football history, the Shula years. So, I’d put both about Dubose. Honestly Price never coaching a game may still be better than Shula and possibly Dubose. Lol
This post was edited on 1/13/24 at 8:35 am
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