Shula gone

[snaggeltooth]

Alabama Fires Coach Mike Shula
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Athletics director Mal Moore says Alabama coach Mike Shula has been fired. Shula was let go fter a 6-6 season that ended with three straight losses, including a defeat by intrastate rival Auburn.

Shula told his assistant coaches late Sunday night that Alabama Moore had dismissed him, The Tuscaloosa News reported on its Web site.

Reached at home, Moore declined comment Monday morning but said he would hold a news conference later in the day.

Shula, a former Alabama quarterback, led the Crimson Tide to a 10-2 season last year and a Cotton Bowl victory. But his teams were winless in four tries against Auburn. The Tigers beat the Crimson Tide 22-15 on Nov. 18, leaving Shula to answer questions about his job security.

"I haven't even thought about all that stuff," Shula said after the game. He had received a vote of confidence from Moore several weeks earlier.

Shula took over the proud but troubled program less than four months before the 2003 season after Mike Price was fired following spring practice for his off-the-field behavior _ specifically a night of drinking at a Pensacola, Fla., strip club. Price got the job after Dennis Franchione bolted for Texas A&M.
Shula's firing would mean Alabama is looking for a head coach for the fourth time since 2000. The Tide has had seven coaches in the 24 years since Paul "Bear" Bryant's last season in 1982. Bryant had directed the Alabama program for 25 years.

Shula, son of Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Don Shula, spent 15 years as an NFL assistant before he took the Alabama job, but had no experience as a head coach or on a college staff.

He received a new six-year contract in May worth $1.55 million per year. The deal extended his contract two years through early 2012, with a raise of $650,000 plus a $200,000 signing bonus.

The 41-year-old Shula has a 26-23 record in four seasons with the Crimson Tide.

A service of the Associated Press(AP)




Ohh Snap!!

[ZAPFOOL!!]

the thumb got him

[snaggeltooth]

News said it was the loss to Mis. State ...

[ZAPFOOL!!]

News said it was the loss to Mis. State ...

yeah right

[TARZAN]

The Alabama/Auburn rivalry is most of what matters...

-Will

[snaggeltooth]

said something like ...Sence we are both in the same place with schoolarships and such we should have beat them.......but I guess 6-6 didnt help ..lol...

[tater_salad]

North Carolina State let Chuck "The Chest" Amato go after a 3-9 season, losing 6 straight, including 2-9 UNC and 7-5 East Carolina, two in-state rivals. Amato did manage to keep his Florida State playbook, Amato just happen to have the 'Noles' number while in Raleigh. He also was on the sidelines during the 24-20 comeback of Boston College. Only other win was against Div 1-AA national champoin Appalachian St.

[Ice Spiral]

and the barner infatuation of the alabama program continues.

god, you assholes are obsessed with UA. Envy knows no boundaries.

[Nastyfoot]

I didn't realize they still had a football team

[snaggeltooth]

and the barner infatuation of the alabama program continues.

god, you assholes are obsessed with UA. Envy knows no boundaries.

if you would quit being so defensive you would find
A. I live in Alabama and it was big news today ..
B. A lot of us just like to talk SEC football...