re: Saban is great but...

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Jeff Rutledge told himself about the outcry for Steadman Shealy after the 78 USC game after the close win against Washington a few weeks later. People said he wasn't quick enough to run the 'bone a running offense that seldom passed. And people thout PSU's DL would eat him alive.

Clem Gryska to me all about Bear's Bowl troubles. You may have been around in the '70's but you were no doubt in some That 70's show drug induced haze.

I'll go with my sources....

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Every bit of this is bullshite that you're just pulling out of your arse. I had classes with both Rutledge and Shealy. Literally no Bama fans thought Shealy should play over Rutledge.

And no Bama fan needs Clem fricking Gryska to tell them that Bryant didn't win a bowl game for 8 years.

If you actually knew Clem Gryska you wouldn't dare uses frickin' in your description. I doubt you had classes with anybody much less Steadman and Jeff. You kept trying to deny Bear even had a stretch where he didn't win bowl games for eight years...

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three in a row is not several

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What are you talking about? Kansas Cowboy.

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And your three in a row argument was incorrect and disingenuous as well

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You're an idiot. I said three isn't "several" because you said Tennessee integrated several years before Alabama. Tennessee had its first black player enroll in 1967, compared to 1970 for Alabama.

The Alabama fans here knew exactly what I was talking about. You didn't.

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You have no clue with your Kansas Cowboy and missed FG

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I'm still guessing you have no idea what I'm talking about.

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Also I still stand by other points.

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"Tennessee had integrated for several years before Bama did"....False.
" I think they would not have been allowed to play UCLA in the mid 60's with an all white team."...False...every Tennessee team that played UCLA in the sixties except 1968 was all white.

**And that's just setting aside for a moment the stupidity of the premise that somehow they wouldn't have been "allowed" to play. Who wouldn't have "allowed" it? The same people who didn't "allow" another California school to play an all white Alabama team in 1970?

"And it was commonly thought that Bear was losing it by not playing Steadman Shealy and Major Ogilvie more during the 1978 title run."...False.
"By the time Bear died, people had seemingly forgotten that he lost 8 Bowl games in a row"...False.

Practically every word you have posted is pure bullshite.

He’s great and all but y’all haven’t beaten him yet.

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It's not mystifying at all. Anderson was an undependable headcase for his first two or three years on campus. Devall wasn't as talented but he could be depended on to do his job. Anderson finally figured it out and was a great player obviously.

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Not at all true. He was a head case as a true freshman (getting sent home from the bowl game), but straightened up after that. His position coach (Fun Pants Lance) didn't like him because he had short arms. He was a much better player than Devall by his 3rd year in the program, but Lance didn't want to play him, so Bama didn't. Once Lupoi took over as position coach, he ended that foolishness quickly. Short arms, indeed...

He was just fine in run support by year 3 and was a beast rushing the passer already.