Bill Curry Locker Room....thing

[RobK]

There are no shortage of Bill Curry's in college football. They are decent football guys who love the game, are passionate about teaching it, and enjoy a decent level of success. The only problem with a Bill Curry or someone like him is they aren't cut out for the white-hot spotlight and pressure of the Alabama job. That doesn't necessarily make him a bad person...it just means he overreached. It means he's in a group that includes everyone except for a handful of coaches. We can fault him for the way he left and the way he justified it, but the bottom line was that our program and our players were better off because he chose to depart.

 

[VegasTide]

Man, tough crowd in here. I was 8 years old in '89 and didn't become a Bama fan until I went to my first game as a student in '00 so I'm sure my feeling may have been different w/ different life situations...

That said, returning to the speech... it wasn't so bad. What do you expect him to say? "OK boys. We're gonna go out there and get beat by at least 50 points! But I will never let you down!"

 

[THE BAMA IRISHMAN]

Who are the people telling Coach Curry and GSU they could not do all those things? :biggrin: They forget to tell the players "You may play a Div I team but you will get beat down.

Alabama ran 8 Backs in the game to keep the score down. BAMA could have pulled a Wisconsin and just kept in its first and second team in.

 

[hollisx4]

The thing that has always bothered me the most about him is his perpetuating the Bama 'mafia' stories on national television. Low class and untrue, IMO.

I agree whole-heartedly!

I live in Florida now and when a group of friends would get together to watch Bama broadcasts in the past that Curry was calling, the consensus among non Bama fans was that Curry was way to classy for a bunch of red neck rube Bama fans who didn't deserve a good man like Curry. That's why I can't stand the man, he admittedly had a couple of good teams and beat Penn State (but never Auburn), but he perpuated this false attitude that he couldn't take it here because of the FANatics.

I don't think the brick thing ever happened, but he never would say it didn't happen so it would die and now it's an urban legend fact right?

He was always more worried about the way he looked on TV than with how his team performed. The Prince Wembley thing on TV wasn't because he was a tough coach, it was because he knew the camera's were on him. Roger Schultz had a great quote once upon a time....He said that if a player got in a fight, Curry would make him go to anger management classes to talk about his feelings....he said when Stallings was there, he just wanted to know if you won the fight.

That say's a lot to me about what each man is made of.

 

[CapstoneTider]

Man, tough crowd in here. I was 8 years old in '89 and didn't become a Bama fan until I went to my first game as a student in '00 so I'm sure my feeling may have been different w/ different life situations...

That said, returning to the speech... it wasn't so bad. What do you expect him to say? "OK boys. We're gonna go out there and get beat by at least 50 points! But I will never let you down!"

I hope I made it clear, and other too, that it wasn't the words to the speech. I mentioned the contrived nature and other mentioned its flatness. No big deal. just an observation.

If you were a fan of Alabama in 89 then you fit in with the fanbase that Curry has mentioned numerous times in a not so flattering light the past 20 years. Either you believe he is correct, has the right and don't care if he's wrong, or you haven't heard him in action. I can't see how anyone could excuse his behavior and cheer him on. He quit on us and his team due to arrogance, and his ego verdict was announced a few years later in Kentucky.

Anytime there was something going on in T-Town, ESPN called in Curry as the "Bama Expert". He would never fail to mention the "Good Old Boy Network" the impossible to please fanbase, and a culture that makes Alabama a not so great place to coach because of it's no win situation. These high profile remarks affected our quality of coaching candidates during difficult times.

 

[liquidvengeance]

I hope I made it clear, and other too, that it wasn't the words to the speech. I mentioned the contrived nature and other mentioned its flatness. No big deal. just an observation.

If you were a fan of Alabama in 89 then you fit in with the fanbase that Curry has mentioned numerous times in a not so flattering light the past 20 years. Either you believe he is correct, has the right and don't care if he's wrong, or you haven't heard him in action. I can't see how anyone could excuse his behavior and cheer him on. He quit on us and his team due to arrogance, and his ego verdict was announced a few years later in Kentucky.

Anytime there was something going on in T-Town, ESPN called in Curry as the "Bama Expert". He would never fail to mention the "Good Old Boy Network" the impossible to please fanbase, and a culture that makes Alabama a not so great place to coach because of it's no win situation. These high profile remarks affected our quality of coaching candidates during difficult times.

I agree 100% with this.

Curry never did have a backbone to coach at Bama and I believe he was intimidated and a coward. I also think hes a fool,needs his mouth shut and a foot up his butt. Speaking of bricks he could use one of those for actuality too. I love Roger Shultz description of him and how pathetic he was to the players.

 

[EddieMoney4Life]

After reading this, if I were Curry, I'd really miss this part of the "Bama Family." I'm sure Curry is on the message boards tonight writing "the fans that said they loved the University were the ones that wanted me to leave the entire time I was here. Then when I left, they cursed the ground I walked on because I bolted a school that never wanted me in the first place."

I love Alabama Football, but dang. I enjoy coming on here every now and then and catching some smack talk and good info, but some of the pretentious turds kind of ruin the fun.

-Eric From Springfield