Question: What was the deal with Bill Curry??

Curry was a center in college, and it seemed like he never cared much for defense.
I know after Stallings came, our defense got a lot tougher...maybe because he made them that way.
To quote DeMeco... "We play defense at Alabama." Even Shula had better defenses than Curry did.

The main problem was that he tried to win in the SEC with an ACC coaching staff.

Curry had promised his GT coaches that if he ever took another job, he would offer them the chance to come with him. He never dreamed that the next job would be at Alabama.

Here's the list:
(all coached from 1987-89 unless otherwise noted)

Tommy Bowden
Andy Christoff
Jeff Fitzgerald
Jack Fligg
John Guy
Rob Ianello
Don Lindsey
Mac McWhorter (1987-88)
Larry New
Rip Scherer (1987)
John Thompson (1987)
Rich Wingo (Strength & Conditioning)
Chip Wisdom (1987-88)
Homer Smith (1988-89)
Walter Lewis (1989)
Rick Rhoades (1989)
Al Kincaid (1989)

RJ YellowHammer said:

It doesn't matter where you're from. If you lose to the Barn 4 years in a row, then after the bowl game, you should begin packing up the things in your office.

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This my friends is the only statement needed. Everything else is opinion.

He was an averagecoach at best. He was a horrible game day coach and his next win over Auburn will be his career first. Mostly I hate the "myths" that have sprung up about him, the brick.., that he was a great recruiter..., that we "ran him off". Bottom line, he quit on Alabama and ran away to Kentucky. And if the "pressure to win at Alabama" was part of his problem here; why wasn't he a great recruiter at Kentucky? Since he was a good coach, why didn't he win, even modestly, at Kentucky? You take the personnel on that '92 defense and give them to that Curry defensive staff for a year and Miami would have eaten them alive.

bamachile said:

Relativism 101 - Table of Excellency​

Outstanding
Excellent
Good
Fair
Acceptable
Bill Curry
Franchione
Dirt​

The man does outrank dirt and despicable life forms, I'll give him that.​

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How dare you insult dirt like that?

I think the difference between Curry and Stallings was summed up well by Roger Schultz. He said if under Curry a player got in a fight he would be assigned to a 12 step behavior program. If they got in a fight under Stallings, he wanted to know one thing -- did you win?

There was no comparison between Curry and Stallings.

bamachile said:

Relativism 101 - Table of Excellency​

Outstanding
Excellent
Good
Fair
Acceptable
Bill Curry
Franchione
Dirt​

The man does outrank dirt and despicable life forms, I'll give him that.​

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:rofl:

1. Last man drafted in NFL draft.
2. GT guy.
3. Liked sweaters...
4. Average coach
5. Couldn't beat Auburn.
6. Couldn't stand the heat at Alabama and fled to KY.
7. I think he was asked to leave at KY.??? Not sure...
8. Poor announcer, and let his dis-like for Alabama show.

I won't go into 9 &10 because it might show my true feelings about him.

Bill Curry had two things in common with CPB.

1. Both coached at KY.
2. Both went on to be 'All that they could be'...

Bill Curry was a horrible excuse for a coach. He got shot in the butt with good luck when he got the Bama job, it was the only comparatively bright spot in a distinctly below average career. His combined record at GTech and Kentucky was 57-95-4.

The only remarkable thing about him as a HC is that he managed to pull it off for 17 years.

You guys are holding back. Tell us what you really think about Curry. :biggrin:

The Donald Trump hair do just never really fit in.

Curry was like 0-8 against auby if you throw in his GT games. He was hired to try and rid UA of being perceived as a "football factory"

GulfCoastTider said:

I always thought that Oliver Stone should have done a movie about the Magic Brick.

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Give me three more years and I'll do it.:biggrin:

Bill was nothing more than a "empty sweater". Good riddance. :mad2:

bobstod said:

My brother Tom Stoddard wrote a very good book about Coach Bryant's first season, called "Turnaround". He did personal interviews with many of the players from that year. He was at Bama then, and wrote sports for the Crimson-White newspaper. Later went to the AJC. It's on Amazon...

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Great book! Every Bama fan should read this book. For that matter, every person that is any kind of a sports fan should read this book.

IMALOYAL1 said:

Curry was like 0-8 against auby if you throw in his GT games. He was hired to try and rid UA of being perceived as a "football factory"

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BINGEAUX!

Indeed, Dr. Joab Thomas, Holt, Tuscaloosa County nativee, tenure as biology professor, prior to return as UA president may provide clues of possible resentment of football. Or, perhaps, he just wanted improvement in academics. Link to Dr. Thomas' bio: [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joab_Thomas]Joab Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Nevertheless, an article in The New York Times, Jan 10, 1987, makes his goal for hiring Coach Curry quite quite clear:
"NOW, FOR CRIMSON TIDE, WINNINGS'S NOT ENOUGH"
NOW, FOR CRIMSON TIDE, WINNINGS'S NOT ENOUGH - The New York Times

Though Coach Bill Curry is a fine gentleman, he was a bad match for the head job at the Capstone. His main Bama connection on his resume was, as GreenBay center, Bart Starr, QB, during games frequently putt his hands on Curry's butt. That was not enough to overcome his GeorgiaTech & Atlanta connection. BTW, sportswriter Furman Bisher, Atlanta Urinal Constipation, retired recently. At lot of crap, from 40+ years ago, was stirred up again. Google bisher retirement at ajc.com. Dr. Thomas should have known better.

For more info on Furman Bisher's misdeeds , google bear, butts, bisher and holt, granning. No not bare butts.:biggrin2:

:BigA: ROLL TIDE! ROLL!

I remember hearing from people who at the time were informed somewhat with some things thar went on at the capstone and mostly Ala. Football and they were telling that Curry and his asst.'s would always wear GT shirts or caps to team meetings and practices and that rubbed people the wrong way and when Alumni such as Billy Neighbors wanted to watch practices they were nixed by Curry. My girlfriend at that time saw Curry at Archibalds BBQ and said "Hi! Coach Curry", and he just turned his head as if he was up a notch over every one else. These are the things I remember about why Curry ran after the brick incident. I remember piloting up the Ohio River at that time and someone in a pleasure boat talking to me on the marine band and said, "we stole you guys coach away from the mighty Alabama HAW HAW HAW", and I replied "you're very welcome to him cause I don't think you stole very much, HAW HAW.

capnfrog said:

I remember hearing from people who at the time were informed somewhat with some things thar went on at the capstone and mostly Ala. Football and they were telling that Curry and his asst.'s would always wear GT shirts or caps to team meetings and practices and that rubbed people the wrong way and when Alumni such as Billy Neighbors wanted to watch practices they were nixed by Curry. My girlfriend at that time saw Curry at Archibalds BBQ and said "Hi! Coach Curry", and he just turned his head as if he was up a notch over every one else. These are the things I remember about why Curry ran after the brick incident. I remember piloting up the Ohio River at that time and someone in a pleasure boat talking to me on the marine band and said, "we stole you guys coach away from the mighty Alabama HAW HAW HAW", and I replied "you're very welcome to him cause I don't think you stole very much, HAW HAW.

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If someone standing on the ground could have thrown that brick through his window, a decent coach would have run outside, tracked the man down, and immediately offered him a scholarship for QB at the University of Alabama.