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1) It's amusing to watch the primary concern being "how them Bama folks gonna react"
2) That was in 2003. That's 19 years and three Presidents ago. If "well 2003" is any kind of argument, well, let's look at what happened AFTER Price and AT Auburn
a) Jetgate
b) Tuberville either getting fired or resigning when a booster allegedly called Houston Nutt to inquire about his availability and was too dumb to know Nutt and Tubs had the same agent, the story then being "he resigned, but out of the goodness of our hearts, we're gonna pay his buyout"
c) hiring a guy who went 5-19 at Iowa St and getting accused of racial discrimination in hiring by no less than Charles Barkley, who isn't the kind to make that accusation as a tactic
d) firing the 5-19 guy after a national championship and only four seasons
e) hiring a guy who only got into college ball in the first place because the coach at Arkansas wanted his QB, and who never showed much advanacement beyond backyard trick plays and hurry up offense
f) getting held hostage by same mediocrity to fork over a 7-year, $49M contract out of fear he might go "back" to Arkansas
g) getting a 23-15 record right after that contract got signed and firing that guy
h) hiring someone well down the list as head coach and the mess we've seen the last year
3) As far as the clueless QB, let's compare records using cherry picked Auburn math:
a) Malzahn on field last 38 games: 23-15
b) Shula on field last 38 games: 22-16
When you consider we didn't pay this guy $7 million a year, he had far more obstacles than Malzahn, and that includes one season where his starting QB missed almost the whole year and another where his best receiver missed 3/4 of the year, there's a compelling argument that that clueless former QB is a better offensive football coach than the high school genius.
Yes, Auburn, we've had some of the same problems that seem inherent in college football as an entity that you have, that's true. Boosters and fans wanting to run the program and folks in positions of power without the backbone to do the right thing.
But going with "almost 20 years ago Alabama had all these problems" as a defense for this past several days is ludicrous and pretends this hasn't been a problem continually over that same time frame.
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