I agreed Fire Mal Moore! He is a disgrace to Alabama and Alabama Fans. Mike Shula was the best thing that has happened to Alabama Football in a while!! He should have been given the chance to prove himself as a valuable coach, I mean last year 10-2 come on! Mal Moore is gutless and heartless. When him on board we will never get a decent recruit or Coach. I mean why would they. As a Coach if you loose you get fired!! What a disgrace! FIRE MAL MOORE and hire MIKE SHULA IN HIS PLACE!

[danton.j]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I agreed Fire Mal Moore! He is a disgrace to Alabama and Alabama Fans. Mike Shula was the best thing that has happened to Alabama Football in a while!! He should have been given the chance to prove himself as a valuable coach, I mean last year 10-2 come on! Mal Moore is gutless and heartless. When him on board we will never get a decent recruit or Coach. I mean why would they. As a Coach if you loose you get fired!! What a disgrace! FIRE MAL MOORE and hire MIKE SHULA IN HIS PLACE!

Wrong, Unregistered....Now, the facts!


Alabama corrects a mistake and fires Shula!

Alabama has corrected one of its biggest mistakes by firing Mike Shula as its head football coach.It's a shame it came to this because Shula should always have a special place in the hearts of Alabama football fans for his days as a quarterback of the Crimson Tide. The drive he conducted in the final seconds of the 1985 Auburn game to lead Alabama to victory remains one of the classic drives in Alabama football history.
He should be a hero. Instead, he's a symbol of failure and unfulfilled hopes.It is said that athletic director Mal Moore would have let Shula stay if he had been willing to make sweeping changes to his staff, but Shula refused to fire anyone and planning only to shuffle assignments. That might be true. If it is true, then Alabama made the right move but with the wrong motivation.
Shula needed to go. He was a mistake from the beginning. Four years ago Alabama hired an unqualified coach with the hopes that he would grow into the job. He did not. He was just as lost in the Auburn game as he ever was and that was with four years of experience behind him. He never grew. He was still as lost as he appeared the day he was hired and faced the news media in a disastrous opening press conference.There are some that say he did Alabama a favor when he took the job. Alabama was facing the effects of probation and that Shula rode in on a white horse as the salvation of the program. That is, so much fiction. It's not like Shula was the only coach who wanted the job. It is just that he was the most inexperienced coach who wanted the job. And it's not like he donated his services. Shula was paid well beyond his worth from day one. And what does he get now for going away now? Alabama will pay him $63,000 a month for the next four years not to work. Don't shed any tears for Shula. If the truth be known, Shula will be laughing every month when he cashes that check and heads for the golf course.For that kind of money, he can even afford to eat at Shula's Steak House a couple of times a month. Remember the old saying, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me"? Well Shula fooled 'em twice. Once when he got hired in the first place and second when he got the biggest raise and contract extension Alabama has ever given after having one winning season in his first three years.Shula did not do Alabama a favor by taking the job. Alabama did Shula the biggest favor of his life by hiring him and turning a soon-to-be out of work NFL assistant into a multi-millionaire. Alabama entrusted its program to Shula and Shula turned a team that was 10-3 the previous season into a 4-9 embarrassment, then a 6-6 and finally a 10-2 team in 2005. It was his high point, but he couldn't hold that level and slipped to 6-6 again this season.But Alabama, who has not shown a lot of common sense in hiring coaches over the past few years, did the right thing by pulling the plug on the coach that has taken the Alabama Crimson Tide to the point where it is only the fourth best team in the SEC West.Now that Shula is out, the next question is who will replace Shula? The normal names are being tossed about, but nobody knows for sure in which direction Mal Moore is looking other than Moore's directive that Alabama is going to conduct a national search and hire a proven head coach. Some media pundits would have you believe the Alabama job is not an attractive job any longer, but that's not true. Alabama is still Alabama. The traditions are still there. The facilities are about as good as there is any school in the country. And the first team the new coach will inherit is not without talent. In fact, there is enough talent on hand that with the right leadership Alabama could move back into a position of challenging for the SEC West championship as soon as next season.Alabama needs immediate authoritative leadership and discipline, two things that were missing during Shula's tenure. A proven head coach, not an inexperienced rookie, would immediately infuse these qualities into the Alabama football program, two things that were staples under the Paul Bryant regime and very much in evidence during Gene Stallings' tenure. They have been missing since and the program has suffered for it.If Alabama was content to be a middle of the road, average program in the mold of an Ole Miss or Mississippi State, then it could have given Mike Shula another four or five years to grow into the job, accepting the fact that it would not even challenge to be No. 1 in its own state. But if Alabama wants to be a contender for SEC and national honors again, then this move is about four years overdue.

Originally Posted by Lefty Noob

Wow, so I'm guessing Moore's a rather unpopular guy in the state of Alabama these days, eh? Besides firing Shula, what other crimes has this guy committed against Crimson Tide Football? And who would you like to see replace him as AD, if and when he gets canned?

Fired Shula after 4th loss to Auburn. why not fire Malfunction Moore after four coach losses?

[rmjvol]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Fired Shula after 4th loss to Auburn. why not fire Malfunction Moore after four coach losses?

LOL! Sounds fair to me!

The Next Coach Will Last 3 Years. Piss Poor Mal Moore Will Be Gone Too.

Why would you fire Mal Moore?? Let's not forget what he has done for the Athletic Dept. as a WHOLE... Renovations to Bryant Denny Stadium and Coleman Coliseum... and what about the basketball program? ( ranked #5 currently)... and the golf team is the ranked #1 nationally... Lets look at the bigger picture here... the Athletic Program as a whole is not struggling, so why would you throw him under the bus like that and blame him for all of the football problems?

Mal Moore should be fired. He is the problem. Shula had a good thing going. He is ruining Alabama football and is a disgrace to the University and a poor example of character ( or lack of ) to those boys.

PLEASE remember the problems of the last years were not Shula's fault but Dubose's! Mal should have been gone after running Stallings off, letting Dubose get away with all he did, not being able to keep Franchione, and hiring Mike Price. Now everyone says Shula shouldnt have been hired and if you believe that, then there's another Mal mistake. The truth is in all that fiasco, hiring Mike Shula was the only smart thing. And he caved in when things got tough instead of being a man and standing by his decision to hire Shula and giving him a raise. Moore has embarresed us all!!!

[magnam1953]

Alabama used to have one of the greatest reputations in college football. Thanks to Mal Moore, the school is like a "Death Sentence" to the career of any coach that might consider going there. If Mr. Moore had any class at all he would resign immediately!

It's so refreshing to read there are some out there that actually do realize how insane it was to fire a class act like Mike Shula. Mal needs to go because he has no clue how to make decisions about the football program!!!
I'm so disappointed we let go such a great peron and coach.

[koko1]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Why would you fire Mal Moore?? Let's not forget what he has done for the Athletic Dept. as a WHOLE... Renovations to Bryant Denny Stadium and Coleman Coliseum... and what about the basketball program? ( ranked #5 currently)... and the golf team is the ranked #1 nationally... Lets look at the bigger picture here... the Athletic Program as a whole is not struggling, so why would you throw him under the bus like that and blame him for all of the football problems?

Finnally a person who see's it the way I do. The AD's job is not football. It is all of the sports. He has done wonders for all of the other programs. And do you really think he is the one behind all of this football stuff. NO... He is just a puppet for all the boosters and Alumn in T-town. Football is the biggest business at most major colleges. Shula had to go. He had 1 fluke winning season over 4 years. With the scedule they had lined up for him this year I think Hoover High could have won more than 6 games. If they would have played lets say Florida's schedule I would be saying give him another year, but he didn't. And in business if someone is not producing you don't keep them just because they are a good guy. If you ran a business like that you probably will not have one for long. Alabama football was something to be proud of, and when you seen the players on the field they were fired up and ready to go. Since Shula has been their I don't see that. He just stands their lifeless and he looks like he would rather be on the golf course rather than coaching the ALABAMA CRIMOSON TIDE.

Originally Posted by koko1

Finnally a person who see's it the way I do. The AD's job is not football. It is all of the sports. He has done wonders for all of the other programs. And do you really think he is the one behind all of this football stuff. NO... He is just a puppet for all the boosters and Alumn in T-town. Football is the biggest business at most major colleges. Shula had to go. He had 1 fluke winning season over 4 years. With the scedule they had lined up for him this year I think Hoover High could have won more than 6 games. If they would have played lets say Florida's schedule I would be saying give him another year, but he didn't. And in business if someone is not producing you don't keep them just because they are a good guy. If you ran a business like that you probably will not have one for long. Alabama football was something to be proud of, and when you seen the players on the field they were fired up and ready to go. Since Shula has been their I don't see that. He just stands their lifeless and he looks like he would rather be on the golf course rather than coaching the ALABAMA CRIMOSON TIDE.

Thank you for that very good point... it's a business ,not a popularity contest!! So for all you people who think that Shula should not have been fired, what do you think he would have done next year with the schedule we have lined up?, with no offensive mindset??? another disappointing season... Don't get me wrong, i love Shula as a person, but IT IS A BUSINESS!!!

If I were a prospective coach, I would make the firing of Mal Moore a condition of accepting an offer at UA. The guy has a disasterous record! BTW, what kind of idiot gives a coach a huge raise, then fires him 6 months later? What are our trustees thinking in keeping Moore???

On the other hand, I think I would be happy with Rodriguez being AD & Coach - we need one person running the show in Tuscaloosa, NOT THE OLD COMMITTEE!!!!!!!!

Note to Mal Moore: you've tested your teflon backside about as much as anyone ever should. You need to let the Bama Nation know that coach Rod wins because of a complicated offensive scheme that takes time to install and smooth out. Mr. Moore, you didn't even let Mike Shula get out of official probation, so how much time are you going to give an outstanding, but very expensive, complicated football mind to perfect his system? PLEASE, Mr. Moore, take a one way trip anywhere for an extended period of time, then come home and smile. Mr. Moore, if coach Rod gets the time he needs, He'll make the Tide family forget your last 4 consecutive horrendously bad personnel decisions.
If Coach Rod comes to T town, Leave him ALONE!

[OswaldTheOsprey]

Originally Posted by rmjvol

With the recent opinion in the Mobile Press Register, many Tide fans are calling for the University to fire Mal Moore.

We've just seen Mike Shula fired after 4 years as head coach. Was that Mal Moore's decision? Do you think Moore should be fired or should he stay as Athletic Director?

Wow! I thought Mobile Press-Register would be a Paul Finebaum
column-not an editorial!

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