Tide Tidbits – June 25, 2009

After coaching at UA or AU, it’s all downhill
What do Bill Curry, Terry Bowden and Mike DuBose all have in common? They’re the only men who’ve coached in the Iron Bowl who, at this very moment, are working somewhere else as head coaches. Curry is the new head coach at Georgia State. Bowden is the new head coach at Division II North Alabama. DuBose is preparing for his fourth season at Division III Millsaps. What does that tell you about coaching at Alabama and Auburn? It’s all downhill from there. Since Bear Bryant retired, only three coaches have left there, of their own free will, for other jobs, but all three moves ended badly. Ray Perkins got fired by the Tampa Bay Bucs. Curry got forced out at Kentucky. Dennis Franchione was shown the door at Texas A&M.

Experiencing Saban in the summer
Alabama football coach Nick Saban’s summer camps are noted for their toughness, and Sardis assistant coach Dusty Darnell is a first-hand observer. “His first year down there, all of us coaches went from (Mike) Shula to Saban,” Darnell said. “Shula was a dog-and-pony show, and Saban came in and it was daylight to dark (the difference). He said we’re going to treat these little kids and high school kids like we do our guys. They demand out of them like they do all their players. They work them … they work the fire out of them.”

Stabler and me, 30 years later
‘‘So, how you doing, Kenny?” That’s the question I asked Kenny Stabler on Sunday morning at Infineon Raceway, and I had no idea what would happen next. The last time I asked Stabler a question, he responded by using an action verb and the second-person personal pronoun and then walked straight past me on the Raiders’ practice field behind El Rancho Motel in Santa Rosa. Of course that was 30 years ago and times change, people change, events change people. The dust-up Stabler and I had in Southern Alabama is ancient history for most people and I was curious if it would be the same for Stabler. I mean, after all, I was the one thrown in jail, not Stabler.

New contracts for Stoops, Capel laden with bonuses
Oklahoma just made it a lot harder for football coach Bob Stoops and basketball coach Jeff Capel to leave. University regents on Wednesday approved bonus-laden contracts that would keep both coaches in charge of the Sooners for seven more seasons, adding two years to each deal. Stoops is among the nation’s highest-paid coaches, along with Alabama’s Nick Saban and LSU’s Les Miles. Saban is due to make $3.9 million this year, while Miles will make $3.751 million. Ohio State’s Jim Tressel is set to make $3.5 million while Florida’s Urban Meyer makes $3.25 million.

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