ICYMI: Alabama Football, Saban’s Presser Rants are Back
You really have to go back to the 1999-2000 season. Alabama, with a 13-16 record, had missed the NCAA tournament for the fifth straight year. After 20-plus seasons of success under C.M. Newton and Wimp Sanderson, the Tide had fallen on hard times. They were a shell of their former selves. Actually, they were worse.
More like hoopsters on the half-shell.
That’s when third-year head coach Mark Gottfried went out and got one man; Gerald Wallace, a high-flyer in high tops who was considered by many to be the nation’s number one player.