Be that as it may, "inquiring" about a job opening is very different from jonesing for it,which is what Terry seems to be implying. Before Shula was hired, I bet every agent for every good coach at a mediocre program was calling. And I bet a lot of agents for coaches with really good jobs were calling. It may have been just to ask about available salaries, etc. It doesn't mean they were foaming at the mouth for the job. It just means they asked.
You're talking about the guy who admitted to knowing that A&M players were being paid, did nothing about it and defended their actions by claiming that other schools were doing it too? His culture of cheating got them put on probation only two years after his arrival. Imagine how much corrupt boosters must love it when they have corrupt coaches that condone their actions. Or maybe he got religion and his whole view of the world changed when he reached Alabama?
Actually it was a bit worse than that. I dug up the quote from Bryant's own book, "Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant." He didn't just keep quiet, he INSTRUCTED them to do it.
Yeah I'm sure he turned over a new leaf afterwards given how apologetic he was. He learned how not to get caught more than likely.
That was Bear Bryant, just because he changed addresses doesn't mean he is a different person, it just means his mail gets delivered in a different box.
Dang, you think bama might have also been involved in the Don Fuell case that was used to cripple AU for bama's benefit? Naw, Bryant never did anything to use the NCAA cartel to ensure the stratification of college sports.........., just like he and the REC were never involved in any infractions. They were just better at manipulating the intent, but no, never the letter of the law......., Yeah, right....... An Elephant never forgets.......... While Bryant was at UK, the judge that oversaw the basketball point shaving scandal had a few comments to make: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,806385,00.html?promoid=googlep Sharply and concisely, Judge Streit summarized a "heinous, degrading and shocking" picture: "I found that intercollegiate basketball and football at Kentucky have become highly systematized, professionalized and commercialized enterprises. I found covert subsidization of players, ruthless exploitation of athletes, cribbing at examinations, 'Illegal' recruiting, a reckless disregard of their physical welfare, matriculation of unqualified students, demoralization of the athletes by the coach . . ." Rich Donnell, SHUG: The Life and Times of Auburn ’s Ralph ‘Shug’ Jordan, Owl Bay Publishers , 1993, PP149-161 ISBB 0-9638568-0-4 On May 1, 1956, an eighteen man NCAA Council, meeting in New Orleans , put on probation Texas A&M, Mississippi College and the University of Kansas . The NCAA found Bear Bryant's Texas A&M program guilty of offering at least two prospective student athletes financial aid during April 1955. The penalty knocked Texas A&M out of two bowl games.
