Hopefully Bama will learn from the mistakes they made after Bryant retired. It is tough situation coming in behind the GOAT that was Bear Brynat. It will be very difficult to follow the modern day GOAT in Saban. After Bryant passed, you had the issue of the good ol' boy booster network all inserting themselves into the program thinking they knew what was best. You also had the issue of the chancellor at that time (Joab Thomas) who wanted to de-empahisze football. A bad combination to be sure and the booster issue came back to bite us in the Albert Means situation.

Bama issues tho in the post-Bryant era were attributable more or less to just bad hires:

Instead of getting Stallings originally we hired Ray Perkins

Instead of hiring Bobby Bowden we hired Bill Curry.

Then we hired or promoted Dubose which was the biggest disaster ever. The 10-years Bama spent in the widerness are directly attributable to that decision.

If we hire the right guy everything will take care of itself. Had we hired the right guy back in the 80's we would likely have 2-3 more NC's than we do now.

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Posted by Chimlim

Baton Rouge, LA

Member since Jul 2005

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Posted on 6/3/15 at 3:01 pm to 14&Counting

Every program has had bad coaching hires. LSU hired Mike Archer instead of Steve Spurrier in the late 80s and that began our downward spiral into the 90s.

Bama will be fine post-Saban. But I do agree, it all depends on who the coach his. Just don't hire Saban's recommendation. At LSU Saban recommended Houston Nutt for his replacement.