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SOOOO TRUE!!!!
Bama in big trouble
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
We need to pause this fine autumn day and thank President Robert Witt from the bottom of our hearts. Certainly, Auburn fans are flooding his in-box with praise for Mike Shula. No Alabama coach since Bill Curry (who was 0-12 lifetime against Auburn) has been this popular in Lee County.
At the urging of Alabama's president and with careful consultation with athletics director Mal Moore, Shula was recently given a new contract and the salary of his offensive coordinator, Dave Rader, was kicked up to $233,000 (one of the highest in the SEC).
Do you think either one is earning their keep?
Shula is currently serving the first year of a five-year deal worth $1.8 million. It doesn't run out until Jan. 31, 2012. There are myriad clauses that enable the university to terminate the contract, such as fraud, dishonesty, being convicted of a felony, the usual boiler plate in any standard contract.
However, Shula must be breathing a sigh of relief that nowhere in the 40-page legal document is there a clause that states as a fireable offense: Impersonating a head football coach.
How else can one explain Shula's mulish behavior toward the end of Saturday's football game with Arkansas and how else can one conceivably explain his philosophy in overtime?
What happened Saturday in Fayetteville wasn't just poor play calling by Shula, the de facto offensive coordinator. It was a high crime.
It was a crime against the members of his football team -- every single one of them -- who fought their guts out and deserved to win a game in which the Tide was clearly the better team.
The Razorbacks have an embattled head coach, a high school offensive coordinator and a raw freshman quarterback who nearly completed as many passes to Alabama as he did to Arkansas. And yet Shula, in his fourth year, couldn't come up with enough guts to be bold and bodacious, to pull the trigger and win a close football game.
In his first two years, perhaps, one could blame this on transition and turmoil. But while coaching Saturday in his 41st game as Alabama's head coach, Shula looked to have no more a grasp of being a big-time coach than in year one, when he blew leads against Arkansas and Tennessee (only to lose in overtime in both), coached his team to ignominious losses against the likes of Northern Illinois and Hawaii and ended up with a mortifying 4-9 record (after inheriting a team that had won 14 of its previous 17 games).What does it say about the Alabama football program when it is led by a coach who is now 1-3 against Houston Nutt?
What does it say when Alabama has a
quarterback in John Parker Wilson -- who from this perch seems to have more poise, personality and leadership capabilities than Brodie Croyle -- and two big-time play-makers at wide receiver, but when the game is on the line, Shula buries his head in the sand and runs the same running play over and over again?
Any wonder now why this guy couldn't cut it as an offensive coordinator in the NFL and was virtually unhireable if not for the connections of his legendary father?
It was a year ago this week that Alabama shocked Florida 31-3 and the headline on the cover of Sports Illustrated screamed: "Bama is Back!"
Bama is back, OK. It lost Saturday to a team that three weeks earlier on the same field fell to Southern Cal 50-14. So much for Alabama being a national contender in 2006.
The good news for the Tide is that thanks to Moore's scheduling of cream puffs (Duke and Florida International remain) and weakness at the bottom of the SEC West (Ole Miss and Mississippi State are a combined 2-6 thus far), Alabama is virtually guaranteed four more wins, which will get the Tide to at least seven for the season. But we knew this back in August in looking at Alabama's ridiculously easy schedule.
When you factor in that Arkansas was the fifth-toughest game on the schedule for Alabama, where does that leave the Tide with road games remaining against Florida, Tennessee and LSU and the home finale against No. 2 ranked Auburn?
In big trouble.
This much is clear after four football games. Alabama has quality players at several critical skill positions -- notably at quarterback.
But does it have the coaching necessary to win championships in the SEC? After four years and 41 games, some believe the jury is still out on Alabama's 41-year-old head football coach.
What does that say about the state of Alabama football under Mike Shula?
Contact Paul Finebaum at:
finebaumnet@yahoo.com
His column appears Tuesdays and Saturdays in the Press-Register.
Bama in big trouble
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
We need to pause this fine autumn day and thank President Robert Witt from the bottom of our hearts. Certainly, Auburn fans are flooding his in-box with praise for Mike Shula. No Alabama coach since Bill Curry (who was 0-12 lifetime against Auburn) has been this popular in Lee County.
At the urging of Alabama's president and with careful consultation with athletics director Mal Moore, Shula was recently given a new contract and the salary of his offensive coordinator, Dave Rader, was kicked up to $233,000 (one of the highest in the SEC).
Do you think either one is earning their keep?
Shula is currently serving the first year of a five-year deal worth $1.8 million. It doesn't run out until Jan. 31, 2012. There are myriad clauses that enable the university to terminate the contract, such as fraud, dishonesty, being convicted of a felony, the usual boiler plate in any standard contract.
However, Shula must be breathing a sigh of relief that nowhere in the 40-page legal document is there a clause that states as a fireable offense: Impersonating a head football coach.
How else can one explain Shula's mulish behavior toward the end of Saturday's football game with Arkansas and how else can one conceivably explain his philosophy in overtime?
What happened Saturday in Fayetteville wasn't just poor play calling by Shula, the de facto offensive coordinator. It was a high crime.
It was a crime against the members of his football team -- every single one of them -- who fought their guts out and deserved to win a game in which the Tide was clearly the better team.
The Razorbacks have an embattled head coach, a high school offensive coordinator and a raw freshman quarterback who nearly completed as many passes to Alabama as he did to Arkansas. And yet Shula, in his fourth year, couldn't come up with enough guts to be bold and bodacious, to pull the trigger and win a close football game.
In his first two years, perhaps, one could blame this on transition and turmoil. But while coaching Saturday in his 41st game as Alabama's head coach, Shula looked to have no more a grasp of being a big-time coach than in year one, when he blew leads against Arkansas and Tennessee (only to lose in overtime in both), coached his team to ignominious losses against the likes of Northern Illinois and Hawaii and ended up with a mortifying 4-9 record (after inheriting a team that had won 14 of its previous 17 games).What does it say about the Alabama football program when it is led by a coach who is now 1-3 against Houston Nutt?
What does it say when Alabama has a
quarterback in John Parker Wilson -- who from this perch seems to have more poise, personality and leadership capabilities than Brodie Croyle -- and two big-time play-makers at wide receiver, but when the game is on the line, Shula buries his head in the sand and runs the same running play over and over again?
Any wonder now why this guy couldn't cut it as an offensive coordinator in the NFL and was virtually unhireable if not for the connections of his legendary father?
It was a year ago this week that Alabama shocked Florida 31-3 and the headline on the cover of Sports Illustrated screamed: "Bama is Back!"
Bama is back, OK. It lost Saturday to a team that three weeks earlier on the same field fell to Southern Cal 50-14. So much for Alabama being a national contender in 2006.
The good news for the Tide is that thanks to Moore's scheduling of cream puffs (Duke and Florida International remain) and weakness at the bottom of the SEC West (Ole Miss and Mississippi State are a combined 2-6 thus far), Alabama is virtually guaranteed four more wins, which will get the Tide to at least seven for the season. But we knew this back in August in looking at Alabama's ridiculously easy schedule.
When you factor in that Arkansas was the fifth-toughest game on the schedule for Alabama, where does that leave the Tide with road games remaining against Florida, Tennessee and LSU and the home finale against No. 2 ranked Auburn?
In big trouble.
This much is clear after four football games. Alabama has quality players at several critical skill positions -- notably at quarterback.
But does it have the coaching necessary to win championships in the SEC? After four years and 41 games, some believe the jury is still out on Alabama's 41-year-old head football coach.
What does that say about the state of Alabama football under Mike Shula?
Contact Paul Finebaum at:
finebaumnet@yahoo.com
His column appears Tuesdays and Saturdays in the Press-Register.
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If shula is doing such a bad job why is JPW passing rating is so much higher than a lot of QB's in the sec including your great Brandon Cox. Bama also has two receivers in the top 5 receiving yards for sec. So I think they have done a pretty good job with that. As far as the running game. Darby is not healthy and we have a younf OL with new players and players in new positions. The running game will come around.
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crackhead wrote:Scott and Hole hunter need to have a hair bet ont the Auburn\Bamma game. Loser gets his head shaved.
I need to keep all the hair I have left.
How about the loser has to wear Mike Shula's gold chain all day.
We play the Lizards in a two weeks you might be releasing the hounds on us too if we don't get our *$#@ together.
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