re: 1996 Alabama coaching search

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talk about stallings - fired twice - before bama & won a nat championship

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Yep, we took a chance there, but it turned out he was just what we needed at that time. Who knows, Coach O could be just what y'all need, only time will tell...

Our most curious job search was the one before Stallings though. We hired Bill Curry...and while he wasn't bad by any stretch, we could've had Bobby Bowden (according to Bowden's own words) and we passed. Would've been interesting to see what Bowden would've done at Bama...but if that had happened, things would've probably played out so differently that we'd have never had Stallings or Saban so I guess it worked out better in the long run...