He rips mal Moore as being an idiot and says Bama is a loser in more ways than one in this situation. In addition, he is not impressed with Mike Shula. see link.Bama Still Getting Hammered :geaux:
Nobody can be really impressed with Mike Shula, not yet. He may be a fine coach someday, but LSU fans remember Mike Archer. He was another promising young coach with zero headcoaching experience hired after the abrubt departure of a veteran coach. Too young, too inexperienced and it didn't work out. Bama had no time and not much to choose from, the top coaches all having found jobs, but it is very surprising for a SEC school to hire a coach with no previous college head coaching experience.
Croom did not have any head coaching experience either did he? Shula and Croom will both probably turn out to be fine head coaches, but I still think Bama would have been able to find an experienced coach if it had been November instead of May. Or maybe not. The probation puts off many top coaches.
Hey Note Please bring me with you to your higher plane of knowledge....why exactly was Croom I eagerly await your insight on this. RTR
Fine is a pure idiot and I stopped reading him a long time. He says things to purposfully piss them off. Just stop reading him...
Re: Hey Note I'd prefer your views on why he was not the best choice. I mean, beside the fact that he's black and it's Alabama.
You've convinced me sportsnote. Thanks for the info. I think the timing would've also been perfect for Croom.
My $0.02 Let's look at how life would be if we had hired Croom. We would have an excellent coach, there is no argument there. Sly is an Alabama boy and his heart is with the Tide. It would be an "inside" hire. Croom would come in amongst a tidal wave (no pun intended) of media about UA hiring the first black head coach in the South. There would be little if any coverage of whether he was actually the best man for the job. Because of our reputation as racist in Alabama, at least half of the world (probably more) would have thought that we hired Croom only because he was black and we needed good PR. Our motives would be questioned for years. Fast forward a little. Two seasons with Croom as head coach. In the depths of where sanctions hurt us most. Hard seasons are easy to come by. Croom is only moderately successful, as most probably any coach would be. He has baggage now, he was hired more for the good PR he brought than his skills (whether this statement is true or not, that WILL be the way it is seen by most everyone). Faithful and the like start calling for his head. The bad press starts again, Alabama wants to get rid of a black coach. They only hired him to get some favorable press anyway; you had to know they would dump him when things blew over. And on, and on, and on. Now we can't get rid of a coach because of the bad press it will bring. I will say Sly's biggest downfall probably was his color. Not that the University cared, but that is all anyone else looking at it cared about. If the world would have left the race issue out, if they would have let Alabama perform its search without interjection, it would have been easier to hire him. Would you want LSU to appear to be bowing to the will of the masses, or even worse the media and "DYNOMITE" J.J.? I hardly think so. UA was in a lose-lose, or lose situation. We could lose once by not hiring him. We could have hired him, which would have made many people feel we hired him to get the good PR and erode a substantial part of his support before he was even announced, and then paid the price in more racist BS PR if and when we had to cut him. As for me, I prefer the ten years youth that CMS has. I also see where CMS, if he is even half a coach will have a distinct advantage in recruiting because of his name and ties to the NFL. Every coach since Coach Bryant has had a ten win season. Even Dubose. Any half arse coach can win at UA. Give CMS a ten win season, and his pedigree will bring recruits flocking to UA. If CMS doesn't work out, we go back and talk to Sly. When we can hire him at a time when good PR is not "needed", when the accomplishment of the first black head coach can truly be heralded as a triumph, not a PR game. Last but not least, Shula was the top choice of the two men who are most likely to be our next AD, one of which is BLACK. And those men know light years more about the two candidates than I will ever know. AND FOR YOU SabaFan.....you my friend have just demonstrated why you are part of the problem and not part of the solution. Not to mention buddy, I have lived in LA for a long time and there is no difference between AL and LA when it comes to the level of bigotry. Also, could you tell me how much time of your life you have spent in the state of AL, how closely involved you are with UA and the board? Exactly what gives you the impression that Sly was turned away for being black? Oh, other than your idiotic, stereotyping BIGOTRY. You are truly the pot calling the kettle "black". By the way I mean that in the nicest way possible, you are probably a pretty good guy, when you don't let your mouth overload your arse (which we all manage to do, even this good ol' bama boy). I have yet to find an LSU fan that I can't get along and have a pretty good time with. Considering the number of times I have camped out for LSU/Bama ticks at LSU, and the amount of tailgating I have done for that game, that is saying a lot. Of course part of it has to do with courtesy, like not singing Ramah Jamah after I left the stadium last year. Thanks for listening, RTR
The sad truth is race in the south will be an issue for a long time. Race probably wasn't the main factor in not hiring Crooms but it damn sure played a major part. I think Sly would have been a good pick if not for the absolute horrible timing.I agree that the spotlight on Sly would be abit TOO bright at Alabama at this particular time. It will take time. When the people who run things in the south will be too young to remember seeing "COLORED ONLY" signs. And when the people who planted and nourished the seeds of segregation and violence are no longer around. The south as a whole still carries that good ole' boy badge. Like it or not. The tide is slowly turning though.
