Tommy, that may be the case, it was an example for exaggeration. Fran is not a good coach. A good year or two at TCU with LT (vs. very weak competition) and one good season at Alabama, and EVERY Bama coach has at least one good 10 win or SEC champ. season (see Shula and/or Dubose). Fran is NOT a good coach. No commitment to D, his O is dysfunctional, avg. special teams, terrible (emphasis added) game-day decision making, etc., etc. He would have dragged Bama down big-time, though it still would have been OK as Alabama football is bigger than any one person and can sustain itself. He couldn’t cut it in the SEC, he can’t even cut it in the Big XII. He’s also not a very good person, as evidenced how he left Bama, and is protected by his PR lackey McKenzie.
Cornbiscuit, that’s an odd reason to hate A&M. So I guess you hate 95% of college football programs. Not all of them have as many “t-shirt fans” as most of the big SEC schools (i.e. no affiliation other than living in the state/area). So I guess in your myopia, by extension, you hate Gene and everything he did for Alabama?!
Anyway, I expect Miami to win tonight, too much speed for the slow A&M squad. The good news it is a free weekend for me so I can get to Bryant-Denny for a big game.
Bamachile, in a truly perfect world he'd get fired and replaced with a good coach, so both my favorite programs would have a good future, not just Bama.
Roll Tide. See you on the Quad tomorrow.