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re: Former Alabama great Gene Stallings turned 86 yesterday.
Posted on 3/3/21 at 6:15 pm to GulfCoastOutlaw
Posted on 3/3/21 at 6:15 pm to GulfCoastOutlaw
1992 was my first year at Alabama. He didn’t win as much as Bear or Saban, but Coach Stallings will always be my favorite.
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Posted on 3/3/21 at 6:18 pm to JackieTreehorn
I’d also like to take a moment to say frick Bob Bockrath for pushing him out. We might have avoided that clapping dolt Dubose.
Posted on 3/3/21 at 6:36 pm to GulfCoastOutlaw
He is an Aggie that did some good work at Bama.
Posted on 3/3/21 at 6:39 pm to JackieTreehorn
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I’d also like to take a moment to say frick Bob Bockrath for pushing him out. We might have avoided that clapping dolt Dubose.
Two roads diverged in a crimson wood
And sorry we could not travel both
And be one program, long we stood
And looked down one as far as we could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, we kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if we should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and UA—
We took the one that led to Saban
And that has made all the difference
This post was edited on 3/3/21 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 3/3/21 at 6:46 pm to BLG
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but judging by the other 4 coaches that won national titles at Alabama, he is a good coach but not a very good coach.
You need to rethink that statement.
He won 70 games in 7 seasons - when the regular season was 11 games.
At Alabama:
Wallace Wade went 61-13-3, which is 79.2%
Frank Thomas went 115-24-7, which is a 78.8% win rate.
Bear Bryant went 232-46-9, a cool 80.8%
Gene Stallings was 70-17, which is 80.5%. He went to a bowl every single season, finished ranked in every season but his first, and including the title year, had 3 top 5 ranked teams.
He wasn't a great coach anywhere else, but he certainly was at Alabama. But for Steve Spurrier at Florida, he'd be the clear #3 - and you could argue for him at that spot pretty easily anyhow.
Posted on 3/3/21 at 7:11 pm to JackieTreehorn
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Bob Bockrath
frick that guy.
Posted on 3/3/21 at 9:32 pm to MrMojoRisin
I thought he was dead.
Posted on 3/3/21 at 10:58 pm to KingOrange
John Mark should have a statue next to Coach Stallings.
Posted on 3/3/21 at 11:16 pm to JackieTreehorn
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I can see him now pacing the sideline in his suit and raising hell about something. Love that man.
He's the last coach I can remember wearing a suit on the sidelines during a game.
Posted on 3/4/21 at 1:14 am to GulfCoastOutlaw
He was the HC for the St. Louis Cardinals!
Posted on 3/4/21 at 1:27 am to GulfCoastOutlaw
Happy Birthday Coach Stallings!!! One of the best defensive coaches in CFB history. The game plan that Stallings and his whole defensive staff come up with for the Sugar Bowl against Miami was totally brilliant. Coach always carried himself with so much class as a head coach win or lose. If he had a fault at all as a coach it was he was very stubborn about opening up the offense. Had he done so he could have won several more NC easy because he always had a dominant defense but still one of the best coaches of the 90’s era in CFB. I hope Coach has many more happy birthdays and good health also.
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