No training wheels needed! Wow factor! Zenith recruiter! Offensive mastermind! disciplinarian! Proven winner! Wins games he isn't supposed to win through superior coaching and courage! Just what the Tide needs - The Ol' Ball Coach! Then The Tide Can Roll Again!
Spurrier a good recruiter? Are you serious? The Ol' Ball Coach has not had a stellar recruiting class since Bob Stoops went to Oklahoma.
Spurrier is old (in his 60s). Why don't we try and hire Vince Dooley or Johnny Majors if we are going to go after the AARP crowd?
None of the other names I have heard are very appealing. Personally, I would would like to see David Cutcliffe (UT Offensive Coordinator) take the job. Yeah, he has works for Fat Phil but he is a Bama grad, great offensive mind (which would be complimented by Kines' defense) and he ran a clean program at Ole Miss, he just ran out of Mannings to coach and was forced out (look where the Ole Miss program is now, they are in worse shape than us).
Spurrier is a good recruiter. Right now he has a top 12 recruiting class so thats better than what Bama can say. Who wouldn't want a coach who has been to the NFL(an actual coach, not a my dad was great job) and knows what it takes to become a winner.
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Personally, I would would like to see David Cutcliffe (UT Offensive Coordinator) take the job. Yeah, he has works for Fat Phil but he is a Bama grad, great offensive mind (which would be complimented by Kines' defense) and he ran a clean program at Ole Miss, he just ran out of Mannings to coach and was forced out (look where the Ole Miss program is now, they are in worse shape than us).
Yeah who wouldn't want to see a traitor on the sidelines? A person who willingly conspired with other SEC teams to bring down Bama football.
Great coach . . . true, but how long would he stay? Spurrier already resigned from his dream job at UF, how long would he stay even if he did take the job. The Alabama job is becoming a revolving door, we need someone who is young, can win and therefore build stability. Spurrier is not the guy. He would be here 3 - 4 years tops IF he took the job (and that is a "huge" if). We will be back here having the same conversation in 3 years. If I am a 5-star recruit why would I come to a school that will probably have two head coaches during my time on scholarship?
Originally posted by usrotagf: Great coach . . . true, but how long would he stay? Spurrier already resigned from his dream job at UF, how long would he stay even if he did take the job. The Alabama job is becoming a revolving door, we need someone who is young, can win and therefore build stability. Spurrier is not the guy. He would be here 3 - 4 years tops IF he took the job (and that is a "huge" if). We will be back here having the same conversation in 3 years. If I am a 5-star recruit why would I come to a school that will probably have two head coaches during my time on scholarship?
Let's be honest Spurrier (too old to put up with the stress of the Alabama job), Stoops (wif he was leaving OU he would have left when the UF job was open), Ferentz (already turned down numerous NFL head coaching jobs, why would he leave what he has started at Iowa), Tressel (Ohio through and through), Schiano (Jersey guy would only leave for Miami job), Petrino (he would be interviewing for other positions as sson as he took the jpob) are not coming to Tuscaloosa. So that leaves who? Paul Johnson? Jim Grobe? Has that how far the Alabama job has fallen that we have to hire the Navy or Wake Forest coach? No thanks.
Originally posted by usrotagf: Let's be honest Spurrier (too old to put up with the stress of the Alabama job), Stoops (wif he was leaving OU he would have left when the UF job was open), Ferentz (already turned down numerous NFL head coaching jobs, why would he leave what he has started at Iowa), Tressel (Ohio through and through), Schiano (Jersey guy would only leave for Miami job), Petrino (he would be interviewing for other positions as sson as he took the jpob) are not coming to Tuscaloosa. So that leaves who? Paul Johnson? Jim Grobe? Has that how far the Alabama job has fallen that we have to hire the Navy or Wake Forest coach? No thanks.
OK, what's your solution? Listening to you, it sounds like no one will take the job and if they possibly would, you don't want them.
If I am a 5-star recruit I am going to come to Alabama to play for . . . CHAMPIONSHIPS?? Heck, I was a senior at Alabama the last time we won anything . . . 1999! Stop living in the past, we can't even beat Auburn and LSU. Now, we are mentioning Paul Johnson and Jim Grobe as heading coaching candidates . . . how far have we fallen?
Originally posted by usrotagf: If I am a 5-star recruit I am going to come to Alabama to play for . . . CHAMPIONSHIPS?? Heck, I was a senior at Alabama the last time we won anything . . . 1999! Stop living in the past, we can't even beat Auburn and LSU. Now, we are mentioning Paul Johnson and Jim Grobe as heading coaching candidates . . . how far have we fallen?
Johnson is good coach and won what, like 3 NC's at Georgia Southern? He's done a great job at Navy, I'm not sure his O-style would win right out of the Box at Alabama, but he is an excellent coach.
If we are making a change this year, though we need a huge name, or don't make the change at all.
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Our solution was hired by the University of North Carolina last week. Butch Davis was a proven program builder at Miami. Even at Miami he was able to maintain discipline. He built a proven winner that won even when he was no longer coaching there. We tried to hire him in the past, but passed on the Bama job for the Browns. Two weeks ago he was working at the NFL network, the stars were aligned but our BOT wanted to wait for the result of the Auburn game . . . Alabama football will pay the price for our slow response to this issue.
DaveW is right. A huge name or no change. Butch Davis would have been a huge name but we blew it. Paul Johnson was a good coach at the Div I-AA level and he runs the perfect offense for a service academy, but our offense would get killed running the triple option in the SEC. This is not the 1970s.
Originally posted by usrotagf: Our solution was hired by the University of North Carolina last week. Butch Davis was a proven program builder at Miami. Even at Miami he was able to maintain discipline. He built a proven winner that won even when he was no longer coaching there. We tried to hire him in the past, but passed on the Bama job for the Browns. Two weeks ago he was working at the NFL network, the stars were aligned but our BOT wanted to wait for the result of the Auburn game . . . Alabama football will pay the price for our slow response to this issue.
And why would he have come to Bama? He's already passed on the job once as you point out.
