Nick Saban is coming to Alabama
Breaking news on ESPN this morning is that Nick Saban is no longer the coach at Miami Dolphins and is coming to the capstone in Tuscaloosa. After several weeks of speculation, denials, and courting he decided his heart is in college football and ultimately that he wanted to return to the game that he loved. I'm certain the money helped too. Its being reported that the contract that was being proposed is an 8 year $30 million dollar deal.
Now, none of this comes out of academic or tax dollars. The University of Alabama football team brought in over $43 million dollars in revenue, over $21 million in donations directly to the football program, and about $23 million in ticket sales for quite a large amount of money. So, Alabama can afford to finish paying off Shula and being able to afford Saban.
What is getting under my skin is the continued sayings by ESPN about Alabama. Yes, this will be our 5th coach in 10 years, but they don't say anything about the reason for this. Mike DuBose had an affair with is secretary, was losing control of his team, and had been implicated in NCAA rules violations. So, DuBose was out and they hired Dennis Franchione from TCU at the time. He came in and had two good seasons with Alabama and he resigned and left for Texas A&M. It may never be known for certain, but probably part of his decision was the looming sanctions from the NCAA rules violation under DuBose.
Alabama then hires Mike Price from Washington State but before he even had the chance to coach a game he was fired after 'stripper-gate' in Pensacola. Again, we may never know what really happened but either way he was fired for this incident.
Mike Shula was hired as coach in May 2003, mere months before the season was to start for the 2003 season. It was between Shula and Sylvester Croom and I think for the time, we got the better coach. Unfortunately, Shula was not ready for a head coaching job at such a high profile club like Alabama. He seemed to be a good recruiter but he made the same mistakes over and over again and made bad decisions. I think his firing was a good thing, it would take an idiot to lose with the talent he had in 2005. He still had a lot of talent this season but squandered it. The Independence bowl against Oklahoma State was a totally different team doing things that the team did not do under Shula. They came back in the second half to tie the game and moved the ball.
Then Bill Curry comes on talking about Alabama too. He was fired because he was a crappy coach and was talking to another school to be their coach. He's still sore about being canned. He didn't do anything good at Kentucky and was fired by them too. I hate watching any football game he is broadcasting for ESPN at because he is full of hullaballoo.
Peace
Now, none of this comes out of academic or tax dollars. The University of Alabama football team brought in over $43 million dollars in revenue, over $21 million in donations directly to the football program, and about $23 million in ticket sales for quite a large amount of money. So, Alabama can afford to finish paying off Shula and being able to afford Saban.
What is getting under my skin is the continued sayings by ESPN about Alabama. Yes, this will be our 5th coach in 10 years, but they don't say anything about the reason for this. Mike DuBose had an affair with is secretary, was losing control of his team, and had been implicated in NCAA rules violations. So, DuBose was out and they hired Dennis Franchione from TCU at the time. He came in and had two good seasons with Alabama and he resigned and left for Texas A&M. It may never be known for certain, but probably part of his decision was the looming sanctions from the NCAA rules violation under DuBose.
Alabama then hires Mike Price from Washington State but before he even had the chance to coach a game he was fired after 'stripper-gate' in Pensacola. Again, we may never know what really happened but either way he was fired for this incident.
Mike Shula was hired as coach in May 2003, mere months before the season was to start for the 2003 season. It was between Shula and Sylvester Croom and I think for the time, we got the better coach. Unfortunately, Shula was not ready for a head coaching job at such a high profile club like Alabama. He seemed to be a good recruiter but he made the same mistakes over and over again and made bad decisions. I think his firing was a good thing, it would take an idiot to lose with the talent he had in 2005. He still had a lot of talent this season but squandered it. The Independence bowl against Oklahoma State was a totally different team doing things that the team did not do under Shula. They came back in the second half to tie the game and moved the ball.
Then Bill Curry comes on talking about Alabama too. He was fired because he was a crappy coach and was talking to another school to be their coach. He's still sore about being canned. He didn't do anything good at Kentucky and was fired by them too. I hate watching any football game he is broadcasting for ESPN at because he is full of hullaballoo.
Peace
posted by Brian Wright at 10:18 AM
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