Posted in Bear Bryant, College Football, tagged alabama, Bear Bryant, Bryant, Coach Bryant, football, Nick Saban, Paul Bryant, UA on February 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Paul Finebaum: “I think it’s a biblical thing. Twenty-five years of glory (the number of years Bryant was at Alabama) followed by 25 five years of plagues.”
Allen Barra (in the book “The Last Coach“): “Which means a new golden age should be dawning for the Crimson Tide around 2007.”
This is a great article. I [...]
Posted in Bear Bryant, College Football, Sports, TideJournal, tagged , alabama, Coaching, Crimson Tide, football, Head Coach, Mississippi State, Nick Saban, Roll Tide Roll, Sly Croom, Sylvester Croom, University of Alabama on December 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Sly Croom is doing good things at Mississippi State. The Bulldogs have beaten Alabama twice in consecutive years, and this year added cross-state rival Ole Miss, Kentucky and Auburn to its list of wins, finishing with a satisfying 7-win season plus a bowl trip. Eight wins in Starkville? Yes, and with the QB problems they’re having, [...]
Posted in Bear Bryant, College Football on November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Because Real Men Wear Houndstooth, this is a link to the original “Supercoach” article from Time Magazine in 1980 which featured Bear Bryant, the “demigod of the autumn religion,” just two years before his death.
What fascinates Bryant about winning football games is not diagramming plays or deciding when to kick a field goal or gamble for [...]
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