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re: Thinking about the Ray Perkins hire
Posted on 12/21/23 at 9:30 pm to BamaGradinTn
Posted on 12/21/23 at 9:30 pm to BamaGradinTn
Alabama still had no business losing to Northern Illinois and Hawaii during Shula's first season.
That's all the ammunition I need to speak ill of his arse.
That's all the ammunition I need to speak ill of his arse.
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Posted on 12/22/23 at 12:58 am to remaster916
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That's all the ammunition I need to speak ill of his arse.
So who should they have hired instead? Sylvester Croom?
Posted on 12/22/23 at 7:49 am to BamaGradinTn
Doesn't matter who was hired, Alabama has no business losing to Northern Illinois and Hawaii.
There were plenty of options for hires, Alabama was still in their flawed hiring process of hiring a Alabama guy. Thankfully, they broke that on the next hire.
There were plenty of options for hires, Alabama was still in their flawed hiring process of hiring a Alabama guy. Thankfully, they broke that on the next hire.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 9:07 am to remaster916
That Northern Illinois team had an NFL back on it.
Shouldn't have lost to them, but he started in the NFL for 9 yrs.
Shouldn't have lost to them, but he started in the NFL for 9 yrs.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 9:28 am to remaster916
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There were plenty of options for hires
Not in the month of May. Not to mention our football program was in a state of turmoil at that particular time. We were in the second year of a two-year bowl ban, we'd been decimated by scholarship reductions, and our third coach in three years had just been let go. The only people who would say "yes" to a situation to that would be people with ties to the program.
Shula was brought into an impossible situation. So much so that he was promised a bonus if he managed to have a winning season in his first year. It also didn't help that most people just assumed he was a stop-gap hire meant only to just stop the bleeding and get the program out of the tailspin dive it was in at the time. I'll give Shula credit for the latter. He restored sanity to the program in his four seasons as coach. When Saban got here in January 2007 he walked into an athletic department that was very stable.
This post was edited on 12/22/23 at 9:33 am
Posted on 12/22/23 at 11:14 am to Canyon16
quote:Mike Shula took the job at one of the worst periods in Alabama football history, and held the program together with integrity and hard work. The University owes him a huge debt of gratitude, and ANY derogatory comments from Tide fans simply shows their ignorance of the school's athletic history.
Shula may not have been a good HC. But he sure was a clutch QB for Perkins and the TIDE.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 12:21 pm to coachcrisp
Both things can be true. Shula was not a good coach AND he deserves a bit of gratitude from Bama fans.
Side note on Shula: My boys at the time were in middle school and early high school. We used to all play NCAA Football on XBox. The oldest was, at the time, the most obnoxious UF Gator fan and would always take those loaded Chris Leak/Percy Harvin era Gator teams. I would, of course, play the Crimson Tide for the season. It would drive him crazy when I would "Darby up the middle" for 13-14 play drives and we'd only have 3-4 possessions per half while he was putting up 60+ on the rest of his schedule.
Side note on Shula: My boys at the time were in middle school and early high school. We used to all play NCAA Football on XBox. The oldest was, at the time, the most obnoxious UF Gator fan and would always take those loaded Chris Leak/Percy Harvin era Gator teams. I would, of course, play the Crimson Tide for the season. It would drive him crazy when I would "Darby up the middle" for 13-14 play drives and we'd only have 3-4 possessions per half while he was putting up 60+ on the rest of his schedule.
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