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Bama Lee said:
USCe Students want Shula fired….

I wonder if anyone has there old signs from early 2007 when we fired him!
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I was a high school student in South Carolina when we fired Shula, and I remember the Carolina fans telling me Shula was a good coach, we weren’t giving him a fair shake, and we couldn’t get anyone better. Lou Holtz had just retired and they had hired Spurrier the year before, who gave them the best years in their program history. My how the turn tables. 😂😂😂
 
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Bama Lee said:
USCe Students want Shula fired….

I wonder if anyone has there old signs from early 2007 when we fired him!
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Don't get on him too much.

He took a job nobody wanted and did the best he could, and I'd go shake his hand for the years he gave. He was crippled by things that happened before he ever got there, and playing in the SEC is really tough. He's a really good man doing a better job than most people would have been able to do.
 
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Ole Man Dan said:
Our problem was not a lot of good coaches were willing to come to Alabama.
That's how we came to have the three Mikes.
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We got the first Mike because of some sort of raging fanbase that wanted a head coach with ties to Coach Bryant, a guy who had zero relevant experience for the job. I didn't understand this monarchial succession either then or now. (Look how many assistants under Saban were colossal screw-ups as head coaches).

We got the second Mike for a more logical reason: "he's been able to win more with less in rural eastern Washington, and he might be the right guy to see us through on this probation thing. Look at the quarterbacks he's developed!"

We got the third Mike because the first two Mikes were mistakes and the alternative was to get on the wrong side of a sociological issue by hiring the black guy and then getting blistered when he was inevitably fired fighting years with one hand behind his back. The blowback on firing Shula was 1/100 what it would have been had we fired Croom after four seasons (and Croom's petulance and childish ways against us at MSU show our hunch was right).


On a side note, go look at the coaches hired after the 1996 season. It's one of the least distinguished lists of new hires you will ever see. Jim Tressel would never have gotten a look outside of Ohio (not then), and you have names like Bob Davie, Joe Tiller, Bob Toledo, and Fred Miller. Gary Barnett had led Northwestern to the Rose Bowl, so his name was huge when he went to Colorado, and Tommy Bowden had a history with us as he went to Tulane.

But that listing of coaches hired in the offseason is one of the most undistinguished in modern history.
 
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selmaborntidefan said:
We got the first Mike because of some sort of raging fanbase that wanted a head coach with ties to Coach Bryant, a guy who had zero relevant experience for the job. I didn't understand this monarchial succession either then or now. (Look how many assistants under Saban were colossal screw-ups as head coaches).

We got the second Mike for a more logical reason: "he's been able to win more with less in rural eastern Washington, and he might be the right guy to see us through on this probation thing. Look at the quarterbacks he's developed!"

We got the third Mike because the first two Mikes were mistakes and the alternative was to get on the wrong side of a sociological issue by hiring the black guy and then getting blistered when he was inevitably fired fighting years with one hand behind his back. The blowback on firing Shula was 1/100 what it would have been had we fired Croom after four seasons (and Croom's petulance and childish ways against us at MSU show our hunch was right).


On a side note, go look at the coaches hired after the 1996 season. It's one of the least distinguished lists of new hires you will ever see. Jim Tressel would never have gotten a look outside of Ohio (not then), and you have names like Bob Davie, Joe Tiller, Bob Toledo, and Fred Miller. Gary Barnett had led Northwestern to the Rose Bowl, so his name was huge when he went to Colorado, and Tommy Bowden had a history with us as he went to Tulane.

But that listing of coaches hired in the offseason is one of the most undistinguished in modern history.
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dude, you could have had at least one passing mention of density

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selmaborntidefan said:
Don't get on him too much.

He took a job nobody wanted and did the best he could, and I'd go shake his hand for the years he gave. He was crippled by things that happened before he ever got there, and playing in the SEC is really tough. He's a really good man doing a better job than most people would have been able to do.
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Selma I could not agree more, people don’t seem to remember what a mess we were in thanks to fat Phil. I must admit it was time for him to leave when he did. But he served an important service
 
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Tidewater said:
I cannot remember a rally at Alabama to get a coordinator fired though, I suspect if there ever was, that Gol*ing was the closest in recent memory.
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Not to hijack this thread, but since you brought his name up, his defense is now showing it's true colors in Oxford. They can't stop anybody. It looks a lot like when he was at Bama.

Now back to the Fire Mike Shula protest!!!!
 
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Tidewater said:
I cannot remember a rally at Alabama to get a coordinator fired though, I suspect if there ever was, that Gol*ing was the closest in recent memory.
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Not to hijack this thread, but since you brought his name up, his defense is now showing it's true colors in Oxford. They can't stop anybody. It looks a lot like when he was at Bama.

Now back to the Fire Mike Shula protest!!!!
 
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Tidewater said:
I cannot remember a rally at Alabama to get a coordinator fired though, I suspect if there ever was, that Gol*ing was the closest in recent memory.
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Funny you should mention that...
It looks like Golding is becoming a pretty good Coordinator for Ole Sis.
I don't think Golding was ready to be a Coordinator when he was at Alabama.
I was one of the guys who wanted to run off Golding... ;)
 
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Ole Man Dan said:
Funny you should mention that...
It looks like Golding is becoming a pretty good Coordinator for Ole Sis.
I don't think Golding was ready to be a Coordinator when he was at Alabama.
I was one of the guys who wanted to run off Golding... ;)
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In another thread, SanJoseCrimson posted that Georgia never punted in the UGA-Ole Miss game. Not once.
 
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I think Shula took the job out of loyalty and probably knew he wasn't the best person for the job.

Was his tenure largely a mess? Absolutely. Was it all his fault? Absolutely not.

And in retrospect, considering what a shambles the program was at the time, we could have done worse than 26-23 (the vacated wins stuff is a meaningless joke to me) during that span.

He wasn't up to and never should have had the job, but I don't hate on the guy.

Always seems like a decent person who tried his best even though it clearly wasn't good enough.
 
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