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re: Name your teams most pathetic coach ever.
Posted on 7/17/12 at 4:26 pm to AUTiger83
Posted on 7/17/12 at 4:26 pm to AUTiger83
After going 0-10 his first season and losing the first 4 games of the second season, Jennings B. "Ears" Whitworth finally won a game, beat Mississippi State 13-12.
Delighted that their coach finally could claim the first win of his tenure, several Alabama players rode a weeping Whitworth off the field atop their shoulders.
Ears Whitworth' record 4-24-2
1955: 0-10-0
1956: 2-7-1
1957: 2-7-1
On Oct. 21, 1957, the coach was in Birmingham to address the city’s Quarterback Club when he told attendees that he did not expect Alabama to renew his contract, nor did he plan to ask them to do so. With six games remaining in what was now his final season, Ears Whitworth was a lame-duck coach.
Immediately, reports from The Birmingham News had Alabama targeting four candidates for the upcoming coaching vacancy, including Harry Gilmer, Frank Moseley and Wade Walker. But the man of the hour, the man that Newsweek claimed was a cinch to get the job, was a coach from Texas A&M named Paul W. Bryant.
Bryant — folks called him “Bear” — told The News he was not interested in the job.
“I have not been approached by anybody…and I don’t want to be approached by anybody,” Bryant said. “I am very happy at Texas A&M, I expect to spend the remainder of my career right here.”
The next year, Coach Paul William "Bear" Bryant was on the sidelines as Alabama's head coach.
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Delighted that their coach finally could claim the first win of his tenure, several Alabama players rode a weeping Whitworth off the field atop their shoulders.
Ears Whitworth' record 4-24-2
1955: 0-10-0
1956: 2-7-1
1957: 2-7-1
On Oct. 21, 1957, the coach was in Birmingham to address the city’s Quarterback Club when he told attendees that he did not expect Alabama to renew his contract, nor did he plan to ask them to do so. With six games remaining in what was now his final season, Ears Whitworth was a lame-duck coach.
Immediately, reports from The Birmingham News had Alabama targeting four candidates for the upcoming coaching vacancy, including Harry Gilmer, Frank Moseley and Wade Walker. But the man of the hour, the man that Newsweek claimed was a cinch to get the job, was a coach from Texas A&M named Paul W. Bryant.
Bryant — folks called him “Bear” — told The News he was not interested in the job.
“I have not been approached by anybody…and I don’t want to be approached by anybody,” Bryant said. “I am very happy at Texas A&M, I expect to spend the remainder of my career right here.”
The next year, Coach Paul William "Bear" Bryant was on the sidelines as Alabama's head coach.
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Posted on 7/17/12 at 4:29 pm to jatebe
Franchione
Posted on 7/17/12 at 4:31 pm to jatebe
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Jennings B. "Ears" Whitworth
Well, he did win the SEC title one year as Alabama's head coach.
Posted on 7/17/12 at 4:31 pm to AUTiger83
Any Aggie on here who said anything other than Dennis Wayne Franchione has a pathetic little pecker.
Posted on 7/17/12 at 4:35 pm to AUTiger83
I would have to say Dubose. Preseason #3 and only won three games, that's bad. 
Posted on 7/17/12 at 4:43 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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Yall seemed thrilled to get him.
Yep. Seemed like a good hire at the time.
No one could've known he'd crash & burn in the colossal way he did. The man single-handedly set back our football program by more than a decade.
One of--if not the--worst mistakes in Texas A&M University's history.
Posted on 7/17/12 at 4:44 pm to EKG
Houston Dale Nutt!
Posted on 7/17/12 at 4:48 pm to Nuts4LSU
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Archer was left a top 10 program by Bill Arnsparger. He won with that talent for two years, then ran the program into the ground. Hallman took over after Archer's mess and had to build from the ground up. That is the only reason for the difference in their records. Give them both the same starting circumstances, and their records would be similar for a while, then Archer's would drop off badly due to lack of recruiting, while Hallman's would stabilize at a better level than Archer's.
Yet Archer has held a job at a D-1 program or in the NFL for the past 22 years while Hallman didn't get a job for 3 years - a one year stint at Bama in '97. Then he didn't get another one 5 more when Moo State hired him for the 2002 and 2003 seasons. Then of course there was his HS coaching career that lasted 4 (all losing) seasons. Why has Archer been able to keep a job and Hallman can't?
Posted on 7/17/12 at 4:50 pm to AUTiger83
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Auburn = Doug Barfield
Auburn = Tommy Tuberville
Posted on 7/17/12 at 4:57 pm to I-59 Tiger
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Jennings B. "Ears" Whitworth
quote:Whut??
Well, he did win the SEC title one year as Alabama's head coach.
Is this a joke?
The only thing that Ears Whitworth won at Alabama was as a player. He was a tackle on the 1930 Southern Conference Championship and National Championship team. The 3rd Alabama team that went to the Rose Bowl.
Posted on 7/17/12 at 5:11 pm to Choctaw
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Auburn = Tommy Tuberville
Not sure if serious but FAIL regardless
Posted on 7/17/12 at 5:59 pm to BreakawayZou83
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Bob Stull, maybe Larry Smith.
Not even close. Woody Widenhofer-end of discussion. Larry Smith started the program back after 13 seasons without a bowl game. Stull had many great assistant coaches who went on to other college and NFL jobs(Andy Reid-Philly Eagles). Stull really did a great job for the limited resources available at that time and might have gotten over the hump if the MU-Colorado 5th Down game would have had a happier ending.
Posted on 7/18/12 at 7:39 am to AUTiger83
Considering talent on the field - Gerry Dinardo. But overall -- Curley Hallman ( Tuscaloosa's finest)
Posted on 7/18/12 at 7:42 am to AUTiger83
Considering talent on the field - Gerry Dinardo. But overall -- Curley Hallman ( Tuscaloosa's finest)
Posted on 7/18/12 at 7:42 am to AUTiger83
Dana Altman
Posted on 7/18/12 at 7:46 am to Nuts4LSU
Posted on 7/18/12 at 7:53 am to plazadweller
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Not sure if serious but FAIL regardless
pathetic as a coach....not really. pathetic as a human being....definitely
Posted on 7/18/12 at 8:10 am to AUTiger83
Ears then Dubose.
Posted on 7/18/12 at 8:21 am to BamaChemE
Mike Price. fricker couldn't even win a game.
Posted on 7/18/12 at 8:28 am to LSU82BILL
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Why has Archer been able to keep a job and Hallman can't?
An assistant coaching job is different from a head coaching job. I don't doubt that Archer is better with the Xs and Os. Hallman was a better recruiter and evaluator of who we needed to recruit. No matter how good your Xs and Os are, if you don't have the players, you won't succeed.
The main reason for my opinion on these two is the condition the program was in when they arrived and when they left. Archer took over a team full of talent that was winning and left a total dumpster fire mess that would take five years to rebuild, while Hallman took over that dumpster fire and left a team stacked with NFL talent that was still losing, but was ready to start winning the next year.
This post was edited on 7/18/12 at 8:35 am
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