To fire or not to fire; that is the question.

[Wildcat Larry]

To fire or not to fire; that is the question.

Does Alabama go ahead and sack Mike Shula and be done with it, or do you see if there's enough left of his abortive tenure as Alabama's head coach to try to pick up the pieces and start again?

More precisely, are there pieces of this disastrous puzzle that can be removed and replaced with better ones? Can you run some assistants off and bring new ones in who can put the wheels back on the draggin' wagon that is Alabama football?

Here's what we all know:

Alabama's offense has been awful from Day 1. Is there a man out there who can roar in and install a new and wonderful system this spring and have the Crimson Tide tearing up and down the field and actually scoring? Finding an offensive coordinator who knows that touchdowns are worth more than field goals would be a start.

Except for the few, brief moments when a healthy Tyrone Prothro was the return man, the Alabama kicking game has looked like former FEMA chief Michael Brown was coaching it.

The offensive line has looked like the players voted in the huddle on who they wanted to block.

Montgomery Advertiser (http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/SPORTS/611210356/1002)

[I. Melvin]

Bama has always been my second-favorite SEC football team (I don't have a second-favorite SEC basketball team), so this article is interesting to me.

Just like NCState's B-Ball search, schools run the risk of ending up worse instead of better.

Who does Bama go after if they can Shula?

[Wildcat Larry]

I'm at a loss to answer that question. Thetwo times that Bama was "willing" to go outside the "family", it came back to bite them (Franchione and Price), so the Bama faithful seems once again to be hung up on having to have someone from the "Bama Family".

Who that might be ....... I don't have a clue.

[I. Melvin]

Maybe Head Coach Namath can kish the recruits' mothers and Offensive Coordinator Stabler can head up the Stumblin', Rumblin' Crimson Attack.

Here's a really off-the-wall thought: Hire BOBBY Bowden for four years while conducting a thorough search for a spectacular successor ...

[7lives]

Wildcat Larry wrote: I'm at a loss to answer that question. Thetwo times that Bama was "willing" to go outside the "family", it came back to bite them (Franchione and Price), so the Bama faithful seems once again to be hung up on having to have someone from the "Bama Family".

Who that might be ....... I don't have a clue.


Sylvester Croom?

I know that is a very very very long shot, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

[ukfanman]

Somepeople in Alabama will never be happyuntil Paul"Bear" Bryant comes back as head coach.:shrug:

[Russ24ky]

Same here in Indiana on Bob Knight

[GeorgiaBlue]

ukfanman wrote: Somepeople in Alabama will never be happyuntil Paul"Bear" Bryant comes back as head coach.:shrug:



or in Kentucky for that matter.....

[Art Vandelay]

Alabama should and will fire Shula. Shula is not a bad coach, but he's not the kind of coach that's going to build a championship caliber team. Worst of all, if you're a Tide fan, he can't beat Auburn. That is an unpardonable sin in Alabama. In reality, that's why we were able to hire Curry back in the day. Despite ten win seasons, Curry never beat Auburn. In fact, Curry is 0-10 lifetime against Auburn.

Alabama will go outside the family for a good coach. Fran was a good fit for them, he just decided to split to avoid the fallout of probation. Frankly, if they hadn't panicked in the wake of Mark "Roll Tide Roll" Price's strip club escapade, he'd probably have them playing for a national title.

Alabama knows it can and will do better than Shula.

[hoosierhateruklover]

Firing Shula would be a mistake of epic porportions! How can they forget about the success of past yrs? Heck, their still in the running for a bowl game this yr.