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Was Bill Curry fired, or did he "resign"?

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Curry had a contract offer from the University on the table when he left. If he had signed it, he would have been the head football coach. He (apparently) didn't think it was enough money. I have heard most of the dispute centered around what he would be paid for the weekly coach's show, but it's immaterial. I'm not certain whether his existing contract had actually expired when he left; I've heard both ways.

He took the position that it was a low contract offer that wasn't worthy of him, therefore he was "fired". If it was that bad, I'm not sure why he needed two weeks to think it over, but....

Sounds like he quit to me, but you can make your own decision. I have good reasons to believe I'm pretty close on these points.
 
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uaintn said:
Curry had a contract offer from the University on the table when he left. If he had signed it, he would have been the head football coach. He (apparently) didn't think it was enough money. I have heard most of the dispute centered around what he would be paid for the weekly coach's show, but it's immaterial. I'm not certain whether his existing contract had actually expired when he left; I've heard both ways.

He took the position that it was a low contract offer that wasn't worthy of him, therefore he was "fired". If it was that bad, I'm not sure why he needed two weeks to think it over, but....

Sounds like he quit to me, but you can make your own decision. I have good reasons to believe I'm pretty close on these points.
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You'll find those answers on the first page of this thread. He thought it was low...but little did he understand how "high" it was considering the $ coming from external sources like shoe contracts, TV/media.

It was the first contract of its type at UA...one of the first in the NCAA...he just "didn't get it."
 
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TerryP said:
I think you've missed the point of some of the posts here Alan. It wasn't whether or not a window was broken, but whether or not it was broken in the manner in which you'll find it being described.
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Terry, you are correct and I had to go back and read them again to better grasp what the discussion was all about.

As for Curry himself...I too got very tired of the "death threats" and how he claimed they were really against his wife and family and blah, blah, blah! I seriously doubt he got death threats going 10-1 (regular season)...even though he did lose to AU each time he coached against them! His worst coaching job in my opinion was against Miami in the '89 Sugar Bowl and not against Auburn prior to that! We should have beaten Miami, while we never really seemed to be in the AU game...we were playing catch up that game, where in the Sugar Bowl, we had that game before blowing it.
 
imauafan said:
One thing I noticed when Stallings arrived was that we became a much more physical team, especially on defense. One of the reasons we lost to Auburn 4 straight years is because of being soft. I still remember Stacy Danley and James Joseph running over our defense. By the end of the game we would be physically worn out. I blame Curry and Lindsey for that. Plus, how many times did our DB's get burned because they never looked back for the ball? (e.g. John Mangum against Michigan was one of many examples) The one great move that Curry made was hiring Homer Smith and allowing him to run the offense. If he could have hired Bill Oliver to run the defense, Curry might have coached at Bama for a long time. For those that said that Curry was a great recruiter, that is not true. I believe that perception remains because we won a NC 3 years after he left and some folks have given credit to "Curry's recruits" for that which is baloney. A few of the guys were signed by Curry (Teague, Lassic, and Eric Curry) but the nucleus of that team was made up of guys that were signed by Stallings (Langham, Palmer, etc.). To be such a great recruiter, when Stallings arrived we were in desparate need of QB's so he out of necessity signed 3 right away, Jay Barker, Steven Christoper, and Jason Jack. Thankfully out of that group Barker turned out to be pretty good.
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Most of the players on the 92 team were recruited by Curry
 
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bamahuey1 said:
I'm bored, and it's offseason so I got to thinking about some of the Tide teams and players from the '80's. That got me to wondering what was the deal behind Curry. Why wasn't he liked, and did he resign under pressure? Or was being the HC for Bama just too much for him? Personally, I liked the guy, but I'm not old enough to remember all the history from that era. I've heard there was more to the infamous "brick through the window" incident than what was reported. The guy seemed to be a good recruiter, ran a clean program, and had a good record while at Bama. I do give him credit for bringing in Homer Smith, and letting him do his thing. The '89 offense was the best I've seen on a Bama team to this day. The next year, with almost the same personnel, we had trouble scoring points after leading the conference in scoring the previous year. The only drawback to Curry was he couldn't beat Auburn; however, he was going up against some of the most talented AU teams in their history and we just walked into a buzzsaw in '89. Anyway, just curious as to what the deal was.
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Those were the best au teams money could buy as pat dye was running a pay for play scheme with a payroll which eventually for him fired
 
bamahuey1 said:
I'm bored, and it's offseason so I got to thinking about some of the Tide teams and players from the '80's. That got me to wondering what was the deal behind Curry. Why wasn't he liked, and did he resign under pressure? Or was being the HC for Bama just too much for him? Personally, I liked the guy, but I'm not old enough to remember all the history from that era. I've heard there was more to the infamous "brick through the window" incident than what was reported. The guy seemed to be a good recruiter, ran a clean program, and had a good record while at Bama. I do give him credit for bringing in Homer Smith, and letting him do his thing. The '89 offense was the best I've seen on a Bama team to this day. The next year, with almost the same personnel, we had trouble scoring points after leading the conference in scoring the previous year. The only drawback to Curry was he couldn't beat Auburn; however, he was going up against some of the most talented AU teams in their history and we just walked into a buzzsaw in '89. Anyway, just curious as to what the deal was.
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Those were the best au teams money could buy as pat dye was running a pay for play scheme with a payroll which eventually for him fired
 
Alanbama27 said:
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Terry, you are correct and I had to go back and read them again to better grasp what the discussion was all about.

As for Curry himself...I too got very tired of the "death threats" and how he claimed they were really against his wife and family and blah, blah, blah! I seriously doubt he got death threats going 10-1 (regular season)...even though he did lose to AU each time he coached against them! His worst coaching job in my opinion was against Miami in the '89 Sugar Bowl and not against Auburn prior to that! We should have beaten Miami, while we never really seemed to be in the AU game...we were playing catch up that game, where in the Sugar Bowl, we had that game before blowing it.
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Never in the game? We led at halftime
 
bamaslammer said:
who cares, as long as he's gone.

I don't know about the brick incident, I was a student at the time and I thought it was in the papers as truth, but I drank a lot of beer back then, especially after THAT game, and things are kind of fuzzy.
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Lots of people care. Good or bad it's part of Bama history
 
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