Sorry for the delay in posts but there just isn't much to post about. Saban is still in denial as stated in a press conference today where he said "What happens in Alabama, happens in Alabama and what happens here is what I am worried about". You make your own conclusions from that.
The Alabama basketball team looked great last night on the road @ N.C. State. The final score was closer than the game actually was. Steele played well, Hendrix had a great game, Gee was steady with a little foul trouble early and Riley looked well. It was good to see them play so well on the road to lead by as many as 23 at one point in the 2nd half. I only wished they would have went ahead and closed the game and not let them draw to within 7 at the final.
I will keep my eyes and ears open for anything new and if you run across anything feel free to post and let me know.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
What Are Our Options????
The way things are going it may seem we could be in for a little wait. So to have something to think on let's take a look at my opinions and everyone else can let me know your opinion also.
I keep hearing we are in no rush since we are going in to a dead period in the recruiting process so we really don't have to be in a hurry. The recruits that we are currently in contact with and already have verbals from, keep in mind they are only verbals and our last verbal ie: rodriguez didn't quiet make it. These recruits are anxiously waiting as most of us are to see who the next head guy is gonna be. We should get who we want ASAP, because the longer we wait the worse I think it will get. Do you think the other universities are using this to their advantage? I can see it now - Why would you want to go somewhere that doesn't know who their next coach is???? I would be willing to bet every recruit has heard this line. I know we are Alabama and some recruits will come because of that but we do not need to go backwards again. Shula did a good job righting the ship and recruiting good players now we need someone to put it all together. We need to get someone in there quick before we step back another 2-3 years because with the player we now have I believe we are headed in the direction all Bama fans want. Who is it gonna be????? I don't know but the names are out there and there are new names each day. I know they are not going to fire Mal Moore, right now, but we have to stand behind him because he is going to make this decision so let's give him our support because all we want is Bama back on top where we belong.
Who's it gonna be?? Saban - Stoops - Johnson - Grobe - Stallings - Leach - Kragthorpe - the list is endless what do you think?
I keep hearing we are in no rush since we are going in to a dead period in the recruiting process so we really don't have to be in a hurry. The recruits that we are currently in contact with and already have verbals from, keep in mind they are only verbals and our last verbal ie: rodriguez didn't quiet make it. These recruits are anxiously waiting as most of us are to see who the next head guy is gonna be. We should get who we want ASAP, because the longer we wait the worse I think it will get. Do you think the other universities are using this to their advantage? I can see it now - Why would you want to go somewhere that doesn't know who their next coach is???? I would be willing to bet every recruit has heard this line. I know we are Alabama and some recruits will come because of that but we do not need to go backwards again. Shula did a good job righting the ship and recruiting good players now we need someone to put it all together. We need to get someone in there quick before we step back another 2-3 years because with the player we now have I believe we are headed in the direction all Bama fans want. Who is it gonna be????? I don't know but the names are out there and there are new names each day. I know they are not going to fire Mal Moore, right now, but we have to stand behind him because he is going to make this decision so let's give him our support because all we want is Bama back on top where we belong.
Who's it gonna be?? Saban - Stoops - Johnson - Grobe - Stallings - Leach - Kragthorpe - the list is endless what do you think?
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
THE REAL REASON RODRIGUEZ STAYED
After throwing in the house deal - he just couldn't leave West Virginia!!!
Monday, December 11, 2006
INTERESTING READ...............
Scott Ferrell - Shrevport Times
The University of Alabama claims 12 national football championships, 21 Southeastern Conference championships and soon-to-be 54 bowl appearances.
Alabama's tradition is part of the fabric of Tuscaloosa. There's Paul Bryant Drive. The Paul "Bear" Bryant Museum. There are even hound's tooth baseball caps for sale.
Alabama's deep tradition, though, creates something of a two-edged sword. It helps the Tide in recruiting, hiring coaches and winning games. It also raises expectations to an almost unrealistic level.
"Alabama is one of those schools where the tradition runs deep," Crimson Tide interim head coach Joe Kines says. "To get to be a part of that is something only a few people get to do."
That number is growing.
The Crimson Tide team traveling to Shreveport later this month for the PetroSun Independence Bowl against Oklahoma State will be without head coach Mike Shula, a casualty of unmet expectations after a 6-6 season.
When Alabama hires Shula's replacement, it will mark the school's fifth head coach since the turn of the century.
"I think the 'Alabama family', while well-intentioned, has developed a pattern of knee-jerk reaction to what is perceived as being a weakness when they are not sure if it is or it isn't," CBS Sports' Tim Brando says.
"At some point, really good teams in the SEC are going to have .500 or sub-.500 seasons. You've got to accept that. They're living in this fog, this era when there were no scholarship limitations and they could get just about any player they wanted."
That era was when the Bear roamed the sidelines from 1958 to 1982. During that time, Bryant won 323 games. He won six national championship and 14 SEC titles.
Alabama was so dominant in the 1970s that the football program even drew the attention of the rock music industry.
Steely Dan's "Deacon Blues" included the lines, "They got a name for the winners in the world. I want a name when I lose. They call Alabama the Crimson Tide. Call me Deacon Blues."
Since Bryant's death following the 1982 season, the blues reached Tuscaloosa.
Alabama has won just three SEC championships and only one national title after Bryant.
The inability to replicate Bryant's feats have caused a revolving door of coaches.
Gene Stallings, one of Bear's Boys, lasted longer than any other Crimson Tide coach "" seven seasons. After Stallings retired following the 1996 season, Mike DuBose coached from 1997 to 2001. Dennis Franchione coached two seasons before leaving for Texas A&M. Mike Price never coached a game before being fired and Shula had four seasons before he was let go.
"You can't just say it's coaching when you've had that many coaches in that short of a period of time," Brando says.
There is nearly as much pressure on the players as it is the coaches.
"When I was a freshman, I wasn't used to it," Alabama running back Kenneth Darby said prior to the season.
Kines, though, says players embrace the Crimson Tide's tradition.
"If you're there (at Alabama), you understand it a little bit different. It's a situation where that is why guys come there.
"You get to be a part of that program. You get to be a part of that tradition. It goes deep. It's not a surface thing. You listen to coaches all across the country and they're talking about building a tradition, building this, that and the other. What is there (in Tuscaloosa) is there. What you've got to do every day is be as good as you can."
Says Darby, "It doesn't take long though before you're around so much that it isn't as big a deal."
Fifty-four bowl games. Twenty-one SEC championships. Twelve national titles.
Tradition is still a big deal in Tuscaloosa. The trick is making the tradition work for the Tide and not against it.
The University of Alabama claims 12 national football championships, 21 Southeastern Conference championships and soon-to-be 54 bowl appearances.
Alabama's tradition is part of the fabric of Tuscaloosa. There's Paul Bryant Drive. The Paul "Bear" Bryant Museum. There are even hound's tooth baseball caps for sale.
Alabama's deep tradition, though, creates something of a two-edged sword. It helps the Tide in recruiting, hiring coaches and winning games. It also raises expectations to an almost unrealistic level.
"Alabama is one of those schools where the tradition runs deep," Crimson Tide interim head coach Joe Kines says. "To get to be a part of that is something only a few people get to do."
That number is growing.
The Crimson Tide team traveling to Shreveport later this month for the PetroSun Independence Bowl against Oklahoma State will be without head coach Mike Shula, a casualty of unmet expectations after a 6-6 season.
When Alabama hires Shula's replacement, it will mark the school's fifth head coach since the turn of the century.
"I think the 'Alabama family', while well-intentioned, has developed a pattern of knee-jerk reaction to what is perceived as being a weakness when they are not sure if it is or it isn't," CBS Sports' Tim Brando says.
"At some point, really good teams in the SEC are going to have .500 or sub-.500 seasons. You've got to accept that. They're living in this fog, this era when there were no scholarship limitations and they could get just about any player they wanted."
That era was when the Bear roamed the sidelines from 1958 to 1982. During that time, Bryant won 323 games. He won six national championship and 14 SEC titles.
Alabama was so dominant in the 1970s that the football program even drew the attention of the rock music industry.
Steely Dan's "Deacon Blues" included the lines, "They got a name for the winners in the world. I want a name when I lose. They call Alabama the Crimson Tide. Call me Deacon Blues."
Since Bryant's death following the 1982 season, the blues reached Tuscaloosa.
Alabama has won just three SEC championships and only one national title after Bryant.
The inability to replicate Bryant's feats have caused a revolving door of coaches.
Gene Stallings, one of Bear's Boys, lasted longer than any other Crimson Tide coach "" seven seasons. After Stallings retired following the 1996 season, Mike DuBose coached from 1997 to 2001. Dennis Franchione coached two seasons before leaving for Texas A&M. Mike Price never coached a game before being fired and Shula had four seasons before he was let go.
"You can't just say it's coaching when you've had that many coaches in that short of a period of time," Brando says.
There is nearly as much pressure on the players as it is the coaches.
"When I was a freshman, I wasn't used to it," Alabama running back Kenneth Darby said prior to the season.
Kines, though, says players embrace the Crimson Tide's tradition.
"If you're there (at Alabama), you understand it a little bit different. It's a situation where that is why guys come there.
"You get to be a part of that program. You get to be a part of that tradition. It goes deep. It's not a surface thing. You listen to coaches all across the country and they're talking about building a tradition, building this, that and the other. What is there (in Tuscaloosa) is there. What you've got to do every day is be as good as you can."
Says Darby, "It doesn't take long though before you're around so much that it isn't as big a deal."
Fifty-four bowl games. Twenty-one SEC championships. Twelve national titles.
Tradition is still a big deal in Tuscaloosa. The trick is making the tradition work for the Tide and not against it.
WHO KNOWS?????
Everything seems quiet at the moment. There seems to be little discussion as to what is going on. I think the less we know the better and we can only pray that through all the decision making that something good will come of all this.
I would say that we need to wait and go after the best out there, regardless of who it is and who they are currently coaching. We need to have no regard for who ever it is and not worry about hurting feelings from within or with our fellow NCAA teams. Whoever we want we need to get, regardless of who it is, we need stability and the powers that are to let them be a coach and run the program in a way that year in and year out we have no need to recruit heavily as everyone would want to come to BAMA.
Let's keep the faith and ROLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!
I would say that we need to wait and go after the best out there, regardless of who it is and who they are currently coaching. We need to have no regard for who ever it is and not worry about hurting feelings from within or with our fellow NCAA teams. Whoever we want we need to get, regardless of who it is, we need stability and the powers that are to let them be a coach and run the program in a way that year in and year out we have no need to recruit heavily as everyone would want to come to BAMA.
Let's keep the faith and ROLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!
Friday, December 8, 2006
JUST FOR YOU GUYS!!!!!!
IF YOU ARE LIKE ME, YOU ARE PROBABLY FED UP WITH WHAT IS HAPPENING. THIS IS A SPOT FOR YOU. I WILL TRY TO PUBLISH NEW THINGS AS I KNOW THEM UNTIL THEN VENT.
I LIKE MEMPHISTIDER@BLOGSPOT.COM WOULD STILL LIKE TO HAVE BOB STOOPS.
WE WILL SIT BACK AND SEE.
I LIKE MEMPHISTIDER@BLOGSPOT.COM WOULD STILL LIKE TO HAVE BOB STOOPS.
WE WILL SIT BACK AND SEE.
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