it was a disaster. it was so bad paul wouldn’t even replay it because it was so embarrassing to shula. he actually pitied the guy.

that press conference was a glimpse into the mind of shula. it was a precursor to sending brodie back in at georgia. to losing prothro while trying to run up the score on florida. the boooing at the duke game his final season.

don’t get me wrong, i’m sure mike shula is a nice guy. but head coaching material at ua???

not! and it was painfully obvious from the get-go.

mine’s not. i remember quite clearly joab thomas’ (the school president at the time) declaration to tear down alabama’s “football factory” image.

those were his words. bobby bowden was sent packing and curry was hired.

after the brick, after going public with calls to the fbi over death threats from aubies, (in my opinion, another fabrication) after the stupid decision not to go to a & m (the hurricane game) and his inability to beat auburn, i’d say thomas got the man he wanted.

as to your contention that curry was a good coach because of his record, he got that record BECAUSE he coached at alabama. not the other way around.

he was a loser BEFORE he got here. he was a loser AFTER he left.

the university of alabama has made winners out of several coaches. perkins, curry, stallings, among others. the head football coach at alabama has a built in advantage not many schools have: our championship tradition. coach bryant said it himself, games, no, championships were won, there was a championship tradition BEFORE he arrived.

never question my understanding of the differences in the coaching expertise of a nick saban and a mike dubose. but also understand that saban enjoys the same advantages coach bryant did. he’s got a rock solid foundation to build on.

curry didn’t have the expertise nor, in my opinion, the character to do what bryant, stallings did and saban is doing.

but with those advantages, a ham sandwich can win 10 games.

mike shula proved that.

p. s. the paul finebaum you hate so, said at the time curry was hired, in response to the moaning from people like me, that if the university could give ray perkins a chance, they should give curry the same chance. he was on board with curry until he realized what i already knew.

you don’t have to google very hard to find the blatant falsehood curry fabricated and began repeating in public AFTER coach bryant died about the phone call bryant made to him about advice on playing notre dame after curry’s tech team TIED the fighting child molesters 3 – 3 in 1980. anyone who believes coach bryant, who had just won TWO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN A ROW called a loser like curry (i’ll remind you that curry had a losing record – not even close – when he was hired) for advice is naive enough to believe the brick story.

jimmy fuller loves to tell folks the window supposedly hit was a second floor window that would have required a herculean effort to hit with a standard bessemer red. he also said afterward an investigation found little glass in curry’s office. 95% of the glass was outside.

add to that the brick was never produced and the earlier story and the public disdain curry has displayed for the institution that gave him the best opportunity he ever has in his coaching career at every opportunity and to me it’s obvious curry is no friend of alabama.

that alabama fans still cling to this fraud re-enforces my contention about how some will always buy snake oil no matter how many times it’s proven it doesn’t work.

bill curry was our black jersey.