"And then there is the cuckoo's nest known as Alabama. Irrational passion and general delusion don't just drive the bus at Alabama. They drive the wheels off it like Dale Earnhardt."
"Alabama has become the single biggest burnout job in college football. The Tide's next coach will be the eighth in the last 25 years and the fifth this century. Nobody -- not even the bottom-feeding, revolving-door, dead-end schools like SMU, UNLV, UTEP, Utah State, San Jose State and so forth -- has gone through five coaches as fast as Alabama."
More from Pat Forde: "Since Bear Bryant ascended directly into heaven on a dazzling white cloud, surrounded by a host of angels, the program flux has been ongoing. Only Gene Stallings has coached more than four years in Tuscaloosa without fleeing or being fired. Stallings lasted seven seasons in the 1990s, which now makes him look like Joe Paterno in terms of permanence.
Between the stability of Stallings and the turbulence of today, Alabama has been slammed with NCAA sanctions for buying an overweight, underproductive defensive lineman; scandalized by the indiscretions of first Mike DuBose, then Mike Price; dumped by Dennis Franchione, who convinced his players to "hold the rope" through probation but couldn't wait to drop it himself; and now it has fired the alum who helped drag the program through the toughest part of its penalty phase. "
roflol Who is Pat Forde anyway?????????????
Finebaum said that he has spoken to Spurrier, and that Steve has told him what is going on. He had to make sure and throw in that he and Steve are golf buddies. He said that Steve told him what's up on the basis that he not announce it on air. He said that while he knows the news he is keeping his promise and the Bama Nation will have to wait a couple days before any announcement is made.
So, paul might just be stirring the old ratings pot, but who knows.
That is the latest editions of AS THE TIDE TURNS.