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First year head coaches at Alabama and their inaugural season records since WWI...
Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:21 pm
Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:21 pm
Since the end of the First World War, Alabama has had 14 head football coaches walk the sidelines in Tuscaloosa. They have all had varying levels of success. Here is how they performed in their inaugural seasons:
Xen Scott (1919): 8-1
Wallace Wade (1923): 7-2-1
Frank Thomas (1931): 9-1
Harold "Red" Drew (1947): 8-3
J.B. "Ears" Whitworth (1955): 0-10
Paul "Bear" Bryant (1958): 5-4-1
Ray Perkins (1983): 8-4
Bill Curry (1987): 7-5
Gene Stallings (1990): 7-5
Mike DuBose (1997): 4-7
Dennis Franchione (2001): 7-5
Mike Shula (2003): 4-9
Nick Saban (2007): 7-6
Kalen DeBoer (2024): 8-2*
*Season still ongoing
Xen Scott (1919): 8-1
Wallace Wade (1923): 7-2-1
Frank Thomas (1931): 9-1
Harold "Red" Drew (1947): 8-3
J.B. "Ears" Whitworth (1955): 0-10
Paul "Bear" Bryant (1958): 5-4-1
Ray Perkins (1983): 8-4
Bill Curry (1987): 7-5
Gene Stallings (1990): 7-5
Mike DuBose (1997): 4-7
Dennis Franchione (2001): 7-5
Mike Shula (2003): 4-9
Nick Saban (2007): 7-6
Kalen DeBoer (2024): 8-2*
*Season still ongoing
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Posted on 11/20/24 at 6:24 pm to RollTide1987
Now do how many of them inherited a competitive roster.
I’d guess it’s 2.
I’d guess it’s 2.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 7:10 pm to Alfie Solomons
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Now do how many of them inherited a competitive roster.
I’d guess it’s 2.
It's at least 3. Wade, Thomas, and Deboer. Honestly, the roster Stallings inherited from Curry was pretty decent as well.
As far as the worst, Bryant probably inherited an even worse roster than Saban. Ears did his best to wreck the program.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 7:16 pm to Evolved Simian
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Honestly, the roster Stallings inherited from Curry was pretty decent as well.
That roster was very solid. Many of the star players on that '92 national championship team were recruited to Alabama by Curry.
Posted on 11/20/24 at 9:20 pm to Evolved Simian
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Ears did his best to wreck the program.
My dad is 85 years old and ushered games in Birmingham, he still has hate for old Ears. Cracks me up to hear him tell stories. I'm not allowed to complain about the Mikes to him.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 5:04 am to Tider13
Whitworth was saddled with a lot of the blame due to his appalling win-loss record, but the downfall of the Alabama Football program began in the last two years of Drew's tenure. It also didn't help the fact that Hank Crisp was not the greatest of Athletic Directors. He hired Whitworth but insisted that he couldn't bring in his own coaching staff. Most of his assistants were left over from the Drew years but some were even left over from the Thomas era. There was constant meddling from the Athletic Department, so much so that Bryant insisted he be hired as both the head football coach AND the athletic director when he took the job in 1958.
That's to take away nothing from how horrible a coach Whitworth was, but it wasn't like he was set up for success either.
That's to take away nothing from how horrible a coach Whitworth was, but it wasn't like he was set up for success either.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 7:42 am to Evolved Simian
frickin' Ears man...
Posted on 11/21/24 at 9:46 pm to Tider13
Damn I bet those are some good stories.
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