re: This year marks the 30th anniversary of Alabama's 1992 national championship team

Watched that game on the edge of my bed, 16 years old, on a 13" rabbit ears no remote tv. Greatest game and year of Alabama football and one I’ll never forget.

Can’t believe it’s been 30 years… wow.

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UMMM...that defense gave up 122 points on the season....

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Dominant defense =/= dominant team. Our offense was extremely lacking the entire year. Against Vandy in the first game of the season, the score was 19-8 with mere minutes left when Michael Rodgers returned an interception all the way for a TD that made the score (25-8) look better than it was. In reality, Vanderbilt played solidly against us. The very next week, we were down 10-7 in the third quarter against a so-so Southern Miss team before coming back to win by the score of 17-10.

We also looked like trash against Louisiana Tech two weeks later. The offense only managed two field goals in that game and the only TD was a David Palmer punt return to make the final score 13-0. We blew a 20-3 lead against Mississippi State in the second to last game of the regular season and were down 21-20 entering the final quarter. The final score was 30-21 but that game was hardly indicative of a dominant team. You also had that tight game against Florida in the SEC Championship Game.

For much of the season College GameDay was calling Alabama the worst undefeated team in college football. We just refused to lose and, because of that, we kept moving up in the rankings every week. There's a reason why no one gave us a chance against Miami in the Sugar Bowl. It's because the vast majority of people had saw how we played that season and thought we were pretenders.

Obviously we proved them wrong, but we were far from dominant doing it.

Former Alabama coach Gene Stallings recovering from third stroke (BOL)



Thank God, Coach is doing really well with no significant adverse effects from it. What a great gentleman!