HUNTSVILLE TIMES: SHULA GOES NOWHERE.

“We hear you’ve been missing work a lot lately, Coach Kines.”

“Well, I wouldn’t say I’ve been MISSING work.”

If there’s something I love, it’s a boiled peanut. But I’d prefer it not to have a conundrum inside. That’s how lawsuits happen.

Careful Orson, don’t be too quick to use the “Jump to Conclusions” mat.

Is today the worst day of your life?

OC Phil Are you seeing this?

I did. It was the perfect thing to read on my computer after a long boring meeting (albeit with a little fun talking football with some UCLA alums on the way out).

I think the last thing Alabama needs is another coaching transition. Stability is important in CFB.

“Why should I change my name? Mike Shula’s the one who sucks!”

oc phil,

How familiar are you with Mike Shula?

McGinley is a goddamned genius. Just wanted to say.

We, as fans of the SEC and college football, collectively, need to get behind Mike Shula. He is nothing short of a miraculous benefit to the rest of the conference, and his prescence as Bammer’s Head Coach can only serve to improve the record of the other 11 teams. It’s all about altruism people, and I’m glad that the Alabammer board of drunks has so graciously taken it upon their altruistic selves to sacrifice for the greater good of the other 11 SEC teams, especially my Auburn Tigers.

President Witt, Mr. Mal Moore, and the Board of disTrustees, I, as an Auburn & everyone but Bammer fan, thank you from the bottom of my heart for keeping Mike Shula, and can only hope that you’ll retain him for years to come. His steely, determined presence on the sideline and demanding discipline strike fear and respect in both the hearts of the people of his football program and the pissed-pants opponents of the mighty Crimpsun Tahd.

Furthermore, a collective “slush” fund has been established by the other 11 respective Southeastern Conference Universities for whatever Mike Shula and the Alabammer football program may deem necessary to benefit the rest of the SEC.

Again, I wholeheartedly thank the Alabama administration from the bottom of my heart, and I speak for the rest of the Conference when I say, keep up the good work.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR EAGLE, HEY!!!

Maybe he should find out what “PC LOAD LETTER” means.

Rainmaker: I understand the frustrations of the Alabama fans, but I happen to believe that the gut reaction of fans to start calling for the coach’s head as soon as things go wrong is frequently counterproductive. Yes I realize that the streak of Iron Bowl losses is torture (as an alum of both tOSU and USC the 90’s were hellish for me on rivalry days) but you are likely to make things worse with a switch. Bama was good last year and this was clearly going to be a rebuilding year. I’d say give him another year, not because he “deserves it” (though I’d say he does) but because the odds are that it will help the team.

At least Mike Price got a chance to show his O-Face.

I think Shula would be better suited doin’ the drywall down there at the new McDonald’s than coaching Alabama football.

We may be stuck with him, but the good news is that even Mike Dubose won an SEC championship at Bama.

If we had just not called 50% of the Darby up the middle on first down plays, we might have won three more games.

Surely a new playcaller can get some good results out of JPW.

How quick the Tide fans forget last year’s ten win season. How dare Shula not win a national title yet, what with the probation at all he was only expected to win by 20 or so every week as opposed t the 50 point drubbings ’Bama is supposed to be dropping on the greatest teams in the country now.

Will ‘Bama fans ever figure out that there will never be another Bear Bryant, and that they’ll never be able to get away with paying for the kind of talent now that they did then?

Look, if you want Shula to wear more flair, just tell him to put on some more flair…Just because Urban Meyer wears 46 pieces of flair doesn’t mean Shula has to wear more than 9…

Orson, you posted the Huntsville Times report, but didn’t happen to post the one that came straight from The Tuscaloosa News (Cecil Hurt, the Alabama beat writer)…

“BREAKING NEWS: Shula still in limbo, no decision coming this week

TUSCALOOSA | The Tuscaloosa News has learned that the review of all aspects of the Crimson Tide football program is "ongoing," and that no decisions — including any decision concerning the future of head coach Mike Shula or members of his staff — are expected this week, sources close to the University of Alabama athletic department said Tuesday night.Shula did meet with athletics director Mal Moore on Tuesday afternoon, but one source said Tuesday that evaluation was "still ongoing."

Neither Moore nor Shula were available for comment on Tuesday night."

Forgot the link…this report came out about an hour and a half after the Huntsville Times. I’d go with Cecil because he’s actually IN tuscaloosa. Paul Gattis is still in Huntsville using “anonymous” sources through cell phones.

http://www.tidesports.com/article/20061121/NEWS/61121014/1011

A little off topic but still relevant: a few years ago I was running a requirements gathering meeting with some clients, who were given to 30-years-war level arguments about accounting and procurement arcana.

The ONLY other thing that cheered them up over the 2 days was when I fired up the conference room big screen and showed them the video version of “who moved my cheese.” Bad enough that it was lying around (at a consulting company, go figure) but worse that I actually had to stay in the room while 30 seconds of advice was stretched into a 20 minute cartoon that 3 year olds would have rejected for being too crap.

Some of you guys that don’t follow Bama are absolutely clueless about just how shitty a job Mike Shula has done.

Talk all you want about last year’s 10 wins—that record was quite misleading and, further, Shula absolutely backed into it. Bama got extremely lucky to pull out victories over UT, Ole Miss, and Texas Tech. Auburn absolutely dominated them and they were fortunate to keep the LSU game close. All in all, last year’s record was the product of a VERY special defense and the ball repeatedly bouncing Bama’s way.

Fun fact: Alabama hasn’t scored an offensive touchdown against Mississippi State in its last 8 quarters against the Bulldogs.

The same OL problems that dogged Bama a year ago against LSU and AU are still present today (see Quentin Groves’ repeated choke slams of JPW) and, as much as the apologists wish it weren’t so, that is not directly attributable to a lack of talent.

Fun fact # 2: Under Mike Shula, Alabama is 0-20 when traliing heading into the 4th quarter

It is readily apparent that the players have absolutely no respect for Shula (they commonly refer to CMS as “Coach Sheila” in private), but that can’t be surprising, considering his idea of discipline is having DJ Hall go through pregame warmups to test his injured ankle and, upon DJ telling Shula that he’s too hurt to play, Shula says, “Ok—you’re suspended.”

Ok…this is pointless, as I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that it’s readily apparent to any objective individual who’s closely observed the Bama program under Mike Shula that he is not and will never be the answer for that program.

Eat my Ass! Shula rules!

Does everyone else have ’Damn, it feels good to be a gangster" running through their heads now?

In my barely-scrapin’-by days I stole a whole box of “Who Moved My Cheese” from [EMPLOYER REDACTED] and sold them on eBay. The saddest part was not that I was reduced to stealing for beer money, but that I found buyers willing to pay MORE than the retail dust-jacket price.

I’d like to move us right along to a Sparky Woods. Now we had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that’s just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.

Comment #13 wins the thread.

Kevin Scarbinsky writes in the B’ham News this morning that Saban has a standing offer from Alabama

Comment #13 wins the thread.

Absolutely. JD gets an extra piece of flair.

You’re a very bad person, Mike.

Y’know, the SEC west is no picnic. Shula’s in there right now. He says the trick is: kick Ole Miss’s ass the first season, or become Auburn’s bitch.

On the count of three all of your losses to AU will just slip away………1… deeper and deeper…..the fact that your wear a gold chain will disappear……2…. deeper and deeper…….. the memory of tossing Mal Moore’s salad to get a bullshit extension……..3

Mal Moore: Mike, we’re gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?

Mike Shula: Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler…

Mike Shula: Mal Moore told me to talk to payroll and then payroll told me to talk to Mal Moore and I still haven’t received my paycheck and he took my stapler and he never brought it back and then they moved my desk to storage room B and there was garbage on it…

Saban’s going to Alabama1 w00t

Eh, maybe. But if Nicky saying no means Shula sticks around, I’m going to load up on painkillers for next season.

honestly, with 3 minutes left in the Tenn game, and 4.30 left in the auburn game, shula didn’t know what he was going to do. he was an absolute pussy and gave away the arkansas game, you can’t even blame that loss on tiffin, you have to blame shula for running tiffin back out there to miss either A a third consecutive easy feild goal, or B his fourth striaght kick (a botched PAT)… Shula is lost out there and i dont care about who calls the plays, shula call(ed) the shots, and we weren’t scoring pretty much all year. does anyone know what jimmy johns’ yards per touch is? and why he didn’t get oohhhh i dont know, 100 more touches this season?!?! and what’s shula’s carrer red zone percentages? I dont know what they are for the last 4 years, but I’d bet 100 bucks we’ve scored TD’s less than 50% of the time. we’re never going to win the SEC until we fix that problem, i say mike kines hte interim coach, maybee even let him take over for next year, see how it goes. get a coordinator from the NFL who’s proven he can score points, not a legacy hire (jeff bowden IS available).

I confess that I was a Shula band-waggoneer until the MSU game. You can blame it on luck, probation, youth, etc. ‘till your head caves in; but the fact of the matter is that the guy is damaged goods right now. People can talk all day long about how there’s no such thing as a one-game-season, but I personally never saw how Tubby holding up five fingers in Bryant-Denny could be a survivable situation…..

Re: #21

Shula’s only 0-19 when trailing going into the 4th quarter. You malcontents are relying on statistics….leave Shula alone.

“There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

I wanted to believe he could follow Chan’s example (and no, I never thought I would say that) and hire a real OC to hand the headset to… but the more I think about it, it’s not really the play calling. Yeah, we ran the ball up the middle too much, but it wasn’t really the play that was wrong in those cases, it was the runner who consistantly tripped over the grass.

It’s the going/not going on fourth down, horrible clock-management, inability to judge talent at all (why, why, WHY isn’t Chris Capps on the scout team?) that’s really at the root of the problem. Hiring a new OC isn’t going to fix that, unless it gives Shula time to go to Head Coaching school (kinda like Richt did after his first season).

Forgive me GeoTiger—the number grows so quickly, I have a hard time keeping it straight.

And just NewAZ—so transparent. I’d want Shula to stick around if I were you too.

should read, “And just like NewAZ”

Saban said no.

A waterhead could have coached Bama to seven wins this season.

It wasn’t necessarily the games we lost that cost Shula his job. He lost his job during the Duke and FIU games. We were physically matched by two of the worst teams in college football. Absolutely pathetic.

Forget the record; Shula had tremendous off the field issues that he created and has failed to address.

And oh, by the way, Saban has said no.

Spurrier, Petrino and Johnson have not.