[southland]

The conditions that caused Stallings to leave in the first place should be investigated.
Stallings is about the only person who could take the problems and wind up with a successful football team.

[Scoutmaster]

Yes, Alabama won a national championship with Gene Stallings as coach (using Bill Curry's players, if I remember correctly). But didn't the Antonio Langham (spelling?) situation happen under Stalling's watch? Weren't there conflicting statements, even by Stallings, about whether he knew Langham had signed with an agent, and yet he played him in the bowl game? Didn't Alabama have to forfeit about 11 games under Stallings (according to the NCAA; Alabama still counts those as wins in its records even though the NCAA says the games were forfeited by Alabama)? Under Stallings, didn't a tutor report her car stolen, only to find out an Alabama player had driven it across country, and after a private meeting with Stallings, the tutor suddenly remembered that she had "loaned" it to the player? Stallings swore like a sailor on the sidelines (is that class?; he was famous for his salty sideline language when coaching in the old Southwest Conference), and the program was dirty under him. He's viewed as having class primarily because he won.