Gene Stallings

TidePhin · April 11th, 2006, 01:49 AM

Do you think Gene Stallings will ever have the field named after him (Bryant-Denny Stadium at Gene Stallings Field?) It was interesting that Awbarn named theirs after Dye. Just some off season talk.

Personally I think it would sound great: Bryant-Denny Stadium at Gene Stallings Field.

RTR

Dr. Know · April 11th, 2006, 06:38 AM

God knows we love him @ our house!

Baldbass · April 11th, 2006, 09:18 AM

I like Gene Stallings a lot. He coached the only National Championship team, that I remember, at Alabama (I'm 30). I make this point with all respect to Coach Stallings.

The situations at UA and AU are totally different. Pat Dye is arguably the best coach the barn ever had. Coach Stallings is not the best coach Bama has ever had. He was a very good coach at Bama.

I don't see the appeal of naming the field at a stadium that is already named. It seems to be a fad that is going around the country.

RTR!!!

SavannahDare · April 11th, 2006, 09:27 AM

I've never cared for the whole field naming thing. It seems pointless to me, like the stadium and the field are two separate entities that have nothing to do with each other.

bamabryan · April 11th, 2006, 09:37 AM

I personally don't think it will ever happen. It sort of like retiring numbers, we just don't do that sort of thing at Alabama.

No disrespect toward Gene Stallings because I love him and think he did a great job, but I believe Wallace Wade and Frank Thomas would rank ahead of him as greatest coaches at Alabama. Obviously, we all know who number one is.

jthomas666 · April 11th, 2006, 10:28 AM

Didn't they name the new weight room after his son? My guess is that's more than enough as far as Gene's concerned.

theBIGyowski · April 11th, 2006, 10:35 AM

	Quote:	bamabryan
	No disrespect toward Gene Stallings because I love him and think he did a great job, but I believe Wallace Wade and Frank Thomas would rank ahead of him as greatest coaches at Alabama. Obviously, we all know who number one is.

I agree. Those two coaches were better than Stallings. If it weren't for them we would not be who we are today. Coach Bryant probably wouldn't have played at Bama...imagine that. We'd only have 7 National Championships...assuming we would have won the last 7. I do think that we could name a street or something to that effect after Coach Stallings. I think the new stuff at the stadium will be a great tribute to our great coaches though. It's nice when you can talk about a whole handful of coaches when talking about excellence.

RTR!

rkwilkerson · April 11th, 2006, 11:07 AM

I wouldn't mind naming the field after stallings...

I think it would be pretty cool, I'm a student, and while I think that Thomas and Wade are GREAT

I'd like to be able to take my kids to Bryant-Denny and explain to them who Gene Stallings was

that I met him once, ect.

Football has changed alot since Thomas and Wade,

" no more leather helmets, or tights"

and I think, if one day we recognize the field, our program should not only reflect what we were

but what we are, and NO ONE can display that fact more than Gene Stallings

the only coach that can claim a national title for Alabama, In the Modern Era

roll tide

RT3413 · April 11th, 2006, 11:09 AM

Isn't this why we now have the Walk of Champions - to specifically honor those coaches who won NC's at Bama? You didn't see them proposing an "Ears" Witworth or DuBose statue out there, nor a Shula. I think that's the standard to having your statue out there..... Which I like as I, too, don't favor the So-and-so field at Such-and-such stadium. Its a bit too much for my taste.

CapstoneStan · April 11th, 2006, 12:45 PM

Stallings was at the helm at the beginning of our NCAA problems. I like to believe that he just made a mistake, but I don't really care to have the field named after him because of it. I am not saying he is a bad man, but he did cause the university some problems with the Langham thing.

And what is this modern era crap? Is CPB not of the modern era?

bamabryan · April 11th, 2006, 01:01 PM

	Quote:	RT3413
	Isn't this why we now have the Walk of Champions - to specifically honor those coaches who won NC's at Bama? You didn't see them proposing an "Ears" Witworth or DuBose statue out there, nor a Shula. I think that's the standard to having your statue out there..... Which I like as I, too, don't favor the So-and-so field at Such-and-such stadium. Its a bit too much for my taste.

I agree with you.

I think having the four statues of Stallings along with Bryant, Wade and Thomas is an outstanding tribute.

I also agree with jthomas666. I guarantee you that Coach Stallings is happier about the weight room being named after John Mark than he ever would be if the field were named after him.

I don't think we'll see the field name for him. I just don't think we'll see it named for anyone.

BamaCarol91670 · April 11th, 2006, 01:57 PM

I think the field naming thing is odd but I do love Coach stallings. Does anyone know how John Mark is doing? I read an artilce a while back but nothing over the past few months.

rkwilkerson · April 11th, 2006, 02:21 PM

	Quote:	CapstoneStan
	Stallings was at the helm at the beginning of our NCAA problems. I like to believe that he just made a mistake, but I don't really care to have the field named after him because of it. I am not saying he is a bad man, but he did cause the university some problems with the Langham thing. And what is this modern era crap? Is CPB not of the modern era?

The Modern Era, is everything from 1990 -- to present day

I'd like to know where all of this hostility comes from??

whenever I display an opinion, It's always flooded with negative, sarcastic comments

I'm trying to participate like everyone else, and I'd appreciate a little less sarcasm, b/c it's hurtful and nobody likes it....

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