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Applewhite Confirmed !

At first, I wasn't sold on Applewhite, but he's growing on me. I hate to grow attatched to a coach based on one season, but what he did at Rice was impressive. He took an option run team, still equiped with only option players and transformed it into a potent spread attack. It goes without saying that the increased offensive production was huge in going from 1 win to 6 wins.

Hope he's at least a Co-OC.
 
XXL TideFan said:
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All I can say is WOW. Major has always wanted to come to Alabama. Applewhite was named after Morgan Olsen Ogilvie (Major). The BAMA staff is different in many ways. Experience would blend them all together. The older are proven and the younger have proven. Should be something special in the making. ;)

Comment by Major Applewhite on Coach Brown:

"Coach Brown’s enthusiasm for the game of football is what makes him a great coach. It’s evident by the coaches he’s brought in and also by the enthusiasm his players show. That enthusiasm transcends all the way from the head coach and the assistants to the players and ultimately the fans."
-- Major Applewhite, former Longhorns quarterback and current Syracuse University quarterbacks coach.
 
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I didn't know he was from Baton Rouge. Pretty impressive for Coach Saban to pull him from his hometown. Of course Major is very bright, after all, he grew up a BAMA fan. ;)
 
Crimson Hawk said:
Read somewhere he was going to be QB coach, with possibility of earning co-oc. Saban's not much for giving anything to anyone..........makes 'em earn it ........the old fashioned way! :cool: ;)
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It looks like Kevin Steele is going to be DC. Won the job playing rock, paper, scissors.
 
Found this article written by a much younger future coach. This philosophy sounds like CNS's comments about becoming the kind of team that everybody hates to play.....

My Somebody by Major Applewhite

My freshman football coach, Sid Edwards, put new meaning into the term “work like a dog”.

I was a quarterback for Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the two-a-day practices under the hot August sun would make even the strongest guys feel like dirty stray dogs. Which was exactly what Sid wanted. He’d tell us over and over that we should be the dogs nobody wanted. The hungry dog. The dog that had to fight for every scrap and wasn’t welcome at any door. Sid didn’t want us to ever be the kind of dog you see riding in the front seat of an air-conditioned car. He taught us that pampered dogs grow lazy while desperate dogs fight harder to survive.

Sid ignited passion, helped build confidence and just made people better. He insisted that we never become complacent with the successes we had. It didn’t matter if I had thrown four touchdown passes the game before; I was never assured I would be the next week’s starter.

I owe a lot of my success to Sid, but he’s not the kind of guy to bask in a player’s success. He’s the kind of guy who says, “Y’all go ahead, there’s work to be done here.” The work ethic and values Sid taught me are things I still carry around with me, whether it’s on the playing field or not.

I’ll always be Sid’s dog.
 
This is just really poignant. A kid who really wanted to play for Bama, named after an outstanding Bama player, turned down by one of our biggest coaching busts, finally comes home to coach. Any Hollywood screenwriters paying attention?
 
TIDE-HSV said:
This is just really poignant. A kid who really wanted to play for Bama, named after an outstanding Bama player, turned down by one of our biggest coaching busts, finally comes home to coach. Any Hollywood screenwriters paying attention?
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Not so fast, the script is still incomplete. When he helps us win "lucky" number 13 we can sell the script for a movie of the week. I've always pulled for this kid since I found out he was named after old number 42. I am still surprised that he is such a hot commodity at his incredibly young age, but he must be doing something right. Let's hope that continues. Roll Tide!
 
This is a GREAT hire guys!!! Everything I've heard about Major Applewhite is that he is a TIRELESS worker who has a passion for the game of football and a passion for the University of Alabama. You can see it in the way he played football...just a real solid guy that works his tail off. You can bet your bottom dollar if Saban has enough faith to hand him the keys then he's more than qualified and he'll do a great job. In 2 years after we've won a national championship our main concern will be trying to keep every major college football program in the country with a head coaching opening from trying to hire him away from us.

I'd almost rather take him and his 28 year old mind over a proven offensive mind that maybe wouldn't work as hard as him (i.e. Spurrier). I really think we have something VERY special going on with our football program once again. I go to sleep smiling every night once again thinking about the future of 'Bama football!!!
 
MikeUT00 said:
Hook 'em and Roll Tide indeed! Congrats y'all. I'm very happy for 'Bama. Y'all are getting a GREAT young coach. Next season should be a lot of fun!
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Thanks UT....very excited about the future, as a matter of fact..the future is so bright....
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TIDE-HSV said:
This is just really poignant. A kid who really wanted to play for Bama, named after an outstanding Bama player, turned down by one of our biggest coaching busts, finally comes home to coach. Any Hollywood screenwriters paying attention?
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in hollywood the head coach becomes incapacitated 2 days before the start of the season and major takes over to leads us to a national championship.
 
Yes! Welcome Major! It's great to have him as an assistant coach. Do you think we will be able to grab some recruits out of the fountain of recruiting they call Texas?

RTR forever!
 
tru2thaduce said:
Glad to see a young inovative mind leading the O.The players will really be able to relate to Major.
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Isn't this the same type of comments made when CMS was hired. I recall many saying of his hiring that it presented an opportunity for the program to grow under a new, younger coach...and vice versa. Don't want to spoil the parade as I just excited about CMA's hire and the thought of what he can achieve with our caliber of players and future recruits, but the don't forget that CMS ran the O just as much as CMA will get to. That is if he does get the OC title initially.
 
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