I agree. I think it was more about Logan Young than anything CMD had done.
I've always been a big fan of his, I think he would have been a great choice to replace Stallings.
Wonder who Stallings wanted? We all know Bear wanted Stallings. Obviously wisdom knows wisdom.
Actually that's an easier question to answer than you would think. The reason? Because Stallings wanted Stallings to stay! Gene Stallings left due to Hootie and Brother Oliver's back-stabbing! Hootie never allowed Stallings to just coach without looking over his shoulder. Hootie continually told Brother that he was next in line and even game him a time-table of '96. It wasn't until Stallings said he wasn't leaving that Brother finally did. Of couse, as things would turn out Hootie succeeded in running off our best coach since Coach Bryant by a mile! Stallings should still be in Tuscaloosa coaching and Bama should still be one of the elite teams in America and dominating or at least constitantly competing for the SEC Crown.
Yes he was. However, I believe Langhum lied through his teeth about just what transpired after the '92 Sugar Bowl. Never the less, Coach Stallings should have run it to ground and made sure Langhum was cleared by the NCAA. Unfortunately, he didn't do that. Despite that, the penalties handed down by the NCAA for what amounts to jay walking were ATROCIOUS! Which is why the original penalties were reduced upon appeal (if i'm not mistaken, the first and only time the NCAA has done that).
Hootie had absolutley nothing to do with Stallings leaving. They were very good friends. Sure, Hootie promised Brother the job when Stallings left, but he had nothing to do with Stallings leaving. Hootie wasn't even the AD when Stallings left.
I think you got your AD's mixed up.....
Had the subsequent administration followed this pattern, we wouldn't have been "looking down the barrel" of the death penalty the last time. Even with all the crud that Phatso laid on us, our own administration's cooperation was used against us as well.
I wouldn't be so sure. We did have shaun, and the rest of the team was pretty stacked too.
I agree, that particular team, assuming we had hired a decent coach, would, IMO, still have beaten UF both times and would not have lost to La Tech in B'ham or to UT in Tuscaloosa. If we had hired, as has been mentioned Frank Beamer in 1997, we might still have had some left over problems from the Langham debacle, but none of the problems with Means and the recruiting violations incurred under Dubose. Had Bockrath not caved in to the facsimile campaign of hiring Dubose and gone with his first choice of Beamer IMO the last 10 years would have been what we had under CGS and probably at least one more MNC during that time.
No. He played Langham but didn't know about the agent. CGS asked Langham about it was told no. Coach probably should have done more checking..
