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Title: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: kd2011 on September 05, 2012, 10:25:18 AM http://crimsonreplay.com/news/ti/2012/gene_stallings/
Title: Re: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: bama57 on September 05, 2012, 10:38:32 AM Great read, Thanks!
Title: Re: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: Chechem on September 05, 2012, 11:07:44 AM #+
Thanks for the article: Quote We didn’t even know who he (Coach Bryant) was. Ray George [had been] the head coach, and they fired him when I was a freshman. They were going to bring in somebody from Kentucky. Course, in this part of the country, all we knew was the Southwest Conference. Then all of the sudden they have a yell practice down at a place called The Grove. And this big ole man got up there and started talking. Took his jacket off. Sort of threw it down on the floor. Sort of a sports coat. And he made an impression on all of us that first day. Title: Re: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: Marshal Dillon on September 05, 2012, 11:11:28 AM Bockrath runs off Stallings and gives us DumBose and over 10 years of misery. Amazing how one person can have such a huge impact on a football program.
>:( Title: Re: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: SUPERCOACH on September 05, 2012, 11:11:36 AM That was a good interview.
Title: Re: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: SUPERCOACH on September 05, 2012, 11:12:07 AM Bockrath runs off Stallings and gives us DumBose and over 10 years of misery. Amazing how one person can have such a huge impact on a football program. >:( >:( >:( Title: Re: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: BAMAWV on September 05, 2012, 11:22:38 AM CGS toughest loss at Bama:
Quote Stallings: Two of ’em. One of ’em was the Fiesta Bowl. I hated that loss. Then when we were playing Florida [in 1991], we got beat pretty badly [35-0]. After that, we went [31] games without losing. Those two were the worst games. But I’d say that the losses probably hurt me most was one to Auburn [in 1995] we should have won, and then when we were playing Arkansas in Tuscaloosa [in 1995] and they got 12 men on the field and nobody sees that except everybody in the stands and on the sidelines. Then they bounce the ball in and called it a completed pass for a touchdown. Title: Re: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: pmull on September 05, 2012, 11:23:22 AM Very good interview. I have always liked Coach Stallings. He was a very good coach but he is a better man.
Title: Re: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: Hannibal Lecter, MD on September 05, 2012, 12:00:37 PM Just a fantastic read, especially when you read it all imagining Coach's voice. Coach Stallings has always had a way of being very candid without being negative on a personal level about anyone. He just tells things like they are.
Title: Re: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: Chechem on September 05, 2012, 03:30:53 PM “Only thing I know about people who criticize: If you listen to ’em, it won’t be too long you’ll be sittin’ with ’em.”
Gene Stallings Title: Re: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: Catch Prothro on September 06, 2012, 11:17:35 AM Quote CR: What does it mean for you to be in the College Football Hall of Fame alongside all those great coaches and players? A great coach who knows where to give credit. Stallings: Well, it means I had some good players. You can be a good player on a bad team and still go into the Hall of Fame. But if you’re a football coach, you go into the hall because you’ve had good football players…who won games. And I want everybody that played for me and worked for me to feel like they were part of the reason I’m there. Title: Re: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: SUPERCOACH on September 06, 2012, 11:23:41 AM Stallings is more like Coach Bryant than any other coach I've seen. He learned both of the things in the previous 2 posts from Coach Bryant.
Title: Re: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: 2Stater on September 06, 2012, 11:31:33 AM Stallings is more like Coach Bryant than any other coach I've seen. He learned both of the things in the previous 2 posts from Coach Bryant. I think from the moment he met CBB, he has tried to emulate him. Great coaches, great men. Title: Re: CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit Post by: Chechem on September 06, 2012, 11:42:15 AM Stallings is more like Coach Bryant than any other coach I've seen. He learned both of the things in the previous 2 posts from Coach Bryant. I think from the moment he met CBB, he has tried to emulate him. Great coaches, great men. Coach Stallings understood the players and knew how to win. He knew that winning didn't require running up a score, and winning by a small margin kept the players working hard. Moreover, Coach Stallings' teams always worked hard and improved during the season - a trait of the great Bryant teams. |