CR interview: Gene Stallings talks about Bryant, 1992, why he quit

[kd2011]

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[bama57]

Great read, Thanks!

[Chechem]

 

Thanks for the article:

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.

[Marshal Dillon]

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.


 

[SUPERCOACH]

That was a good interview.

[SUPERCOACH]

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.


 

[BAMAWV]

CGS toughest loss at Bama:

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.

[pmull]

Very good interview. I have always liked Coach Stallings. He was a very good coach but he is a better man.

[Hannibal Lecter, MD]

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.

[Chechem]

“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

[Catch Prothro]

CR: What does it mean for you to be in the College Football Hall of Fame alongside all those great coaches and players?

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.
 

A great coach who knows where to give credit. 

[SUPERCOACH]

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.

[2Stater]

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.

[Chechem]

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.

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