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How Do You Rate Mal Moore?

Dixiedawg

Dixiedawg

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A few short seasons ago, a number of folks seemed ready to lynch Mal Moore because of their perceived view of how he was doing his job and especially in the football side of things. So we know how we are doing in football,but how are we doing athletically in other areas? :cheers2:
 
Things were tough during the Shula Era, but they righted themselves when Mal decided to go get the best coaches. Mal has also played an integral part in our stadium expansion program.

Mal has turned into a 9.5-10 since the hire of Coach Saban. It appears that everything he's done lately has been an unqualified success. :)
 
Dixiedawg said:
A few short seasons ago, a number of folks seemed ready to lynch Mal Moore because of their perceived view of how he was doing his job and especially in the football side of things. So we know how we are doing in football,but how are we doing athletically in other areas? :cheers2:
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With the exception of Football, Womens Gymnastics, Mens swimming, Mens Basketball and baseball, and Mens Golf I don't see the other sports mentioned in the National rankings. Think Mal probably has not done a good job in the other sports. He has recently hired Wendell Hudson (recently signed the #5 prospect in nation according to ESPN) and Anthony Grant in Basketball. I believe these coaches will bring home the bacon in a few years. Facilities need no defending as we have excellent facilities in all sports and getting better. Fund Raising has been great.

BUT, at Alabama by far an athletic director is judged by how he is doing in Football. With the Saban hire Mal gets a grade of 100.

ALSO, Mal has more championship rings than any man standing. He must know something about winning to be a part of so many championships. Would give Mal an overall B+ as Athletic Director. He has a long and illustrious career at Alabama and we all owe him a debt of gratitude for all he has done for our University.
 
Clubfitter said:
With the exception of Football, Womens Gymnastics, Mens swimming, Mens Basketball and baseball, and Mens Golf I don't see the other sports mentioned in the National rankings. Think Mal probably has not done a good job in the other sports.
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Since you decided to list out the sports...

Men's Cross Country just finished 3rd in the National Championship Meet. That's their best finish ever. While I was manager of the track team down there (2000-2003) our Indoor Track team finished 2nd at the National Championship Meet. I believe we were only a few points from winning the whole thing...and me getting a giant ring. I also remember the softball team making it to the Final Four in the Women's College World Series.

We have done quite well this decade in all sports and I think we are on our way to even better results. Football can fuel or take away success. Right now it's bringing in a lot of other great athletes because watching a championship team play football in the best stadium in the country is a big draw for a teenager wanting to run track, play softball, basketball, etc. It's why Florida was able to dominate the 90s and part of this decade in so many sports.

It's our time now...and Mal has helped us get here. I am not sure how much farther he can take us...but I would consider this the "Fourth Quarter" of his tenure here. You don't always win the ball game in the first 30 minutes. He's going to finish strong...because that's the way he was taught.
 
theBIGyowski said:
Since you decided to list out the sports...

Men's Cross Country just finished 3rd in the National Championship Meet. That's their best finish ever. While I was manager of the track team down there (2000-2003) our Indoor Track team finished 2nd at the National Championship Meet. I believe we were only a few points from winning the whole thing...and me getting a giant ring. I also remember the softball team making it to the Final Four in the Women's College World Series.

We have done quite well this decade in all sports and I think we are on our way to even better results. Football can fuel or take away success. Right now it's bringing in a lot of other great athletes because watching a championship team play football in the best stadium in the country is a big draw for a teenager wanting to run track, play softball, basketball, etc. It's why Florida was able to dominate the 90s and part of this decade in so many sports.

It's our time now...and Mal has helped us get here. I am not sure how much farther he can take us...but I would consider this the "Fourth Quarter" of his tenure here. You don't always win the ball game in the first 30 minutes. He's going to finish strong...because that's the way he was taught.
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great post
 
Wish Mal would do something about the ticket office - they sent my BCS tickets to an address I have not resided at in four years. Of course, they have no explanation how the screw up occurred, and no one in charge is around Saturday or Sunday apparently. Sadly, they never even bothered to contact UPS to fix the address before the tickets left for Florida yesterday evening at 8:45 p.m. - although the person I spoke with (at 8:15 A.M.) said it would be taken care of. UPS says no one from UA contacted them to change the order, and it is very easy to do - the shipper has to make the notification (I cannot.) They had 12 hours to easily correct the mistake. Now, who knows where my tickets will end up - or when I will get new ones. :frown:
 
it's hard to give moore credit for the anthony grant hire. gottfried should have been fired years ago. dave hart was brought in to handle the basketball situation.
 
Moore has National Champion rings as [1] a player and [2] a coach (assistant).

It would be valid to rate him a champion.

Hope he adds one soon as an AD. :biggrin2:
 
theBIGyowski said:
Since you decided to list out the sports...

Men's Cross Country just finished 3rd in the National Championship Meet. That's their best finish ever. While I was manager of the track team down there (2000-2003) our Indoor Track team finished 2nd at the National Championship Meet. I believe we were only a few points from winning the whole thing...and me getting a giant ring. I also remember the softball team making it to the Final Four in the Women's College World Series.

We have done quite well this decade in all sports and I think we are on our way to even better results. Football can fuel or take away success. Right now it's bringing in a lot of other great athletes because watching a championship team play football in the best stadium in the country is a big draw for a teenager wanting to run track, play softball, basketball, etc. It's why Florida was able to dominate the 90s and part of this decade in so many sports.
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Thanks for straightening me out on the facts. I tried to do some research but my search skills obviously need some work.

Some of the successes you listed I did not know about. Maybe we need to be discussing the work our Public relations Dept does.
 
theBIGyowski said:
Since you decided to list out the sports...

Men's Cross Country just finished 3rd in the National Championship Meet. That's their best finish ever. While I was manager of the track team down there (2000-2003) our Indoor Track team finished 2nd at the National Championship Meet. I believe we were only a few points from winning the whole thing...and me getting a giant ring. I also remember the softball team making it to the Final Four in the Women's College World Series.

We have done quite well this decade in all sports and I think we are on our way to even better results. Football can fuel or take away success. Right now it's bringing in a lot of other great athletes because watching a championship team play football in the best stadium in the country is a big draw for a teenager wanting to run track, play softball, basketball, etc. It's why Florida was able to dominate the 90s and part of this decade in so many sports.

It's our time now...and Mal has helped us get here. I am not sure how much farther he can take us...but I would consider this the "Fourth Quarter" of his tenure here. You don't always win the ball game in the first 30 minutes. He's going to finish strong...because that's the way he was taught.
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Amen to this. His recent ability to upgrade the sports facilities since Franchione was hired has been a step in the right direction for us for all athletics. No wonder he has a building with his name on it.
 
no body loves UA more than CMM. the football program allows the other programs to exist. i'd say CMM's done a good job overall. especially leading the program through the sanctions. he gave shula a chance when bascially no one else wanted the job. shula didn't take advantage of it.
 
I think he screwed up a bunch. But I think he finally figured it out.

He finally saw that we no longer needed to be a training ground for future head coaches in football, and he finally saw that "family" doesn't qualify you to be the Head Football Coach at The University Of Alabama.

So I'll give him a BIG A-PLUS.

I was so sick of that family crap that I was about to puke.

sip
 
I think the Shula thing was his biggest mistake, not just the hiring but if I'm mistaken he wished to keep him but it was the booster clubs and sponsors that wanted Shula fired. And then we were going to hire Rich, not sure how that would've worked out, but just the fact he saw and took advantage of the Saban opportunity is enough to get him an A in my book. He was at a point when he knew he had to get the best this time, no more couple-of-year tenures.
 
Clubfitter said:
ALSO, Mal has more championship rings than any man standing. He must know something about winning to be a part of so many championships. He has a long and illustrious career at Alabama and we all owe him a debt of gratitude for all he has done for our University.
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You said it before I had a chance but when I saw this post, this is the first thought to come to mind.
 
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