If Bama manages to grab a coach like Spurrier and goes on to WIN in the way Bama boosters expect, then all this will be forgotten. Shula is coming away from this with $4 million or $60K/month for a few years. He knew what he was getting into when he took the job. He knew how fickle the jerks are who control the purse strings are. He is a nice, good-looking guy. I'll bet he's even friends with his players. But he doesn't have the bleed until you win kind of attitude that some think is necessary to WIN.
Hubby was telling our boys about Bear Bryant over the weekend. I was too young to know all the things that Coach Bryant did in order to win. He installed barbed wire fencing around the practice field in order to KEEP PLAYERS IN. I guess he was brutal. Probably excessively so if the rule changes that hubby mentioned are any indication. But Shula did not seem to have even a quarter of the drive to win that folks at Bama expect.