Alabama Football Statistics - 2006 Season Update

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Saban hire means Alabama is back

For the last few years, and especially the last few weeks, the national media has questioned Alabama's relevance. Getting Nick Saban, a much sought after coach from the NFL, proves Alabama is still Alabama. I couldn't be happier with this hire. I haven't been this optimistic about the direction of the Alabama football program since the 1992 national championship.


(photo from TideSports.com's Robert Sutton)

Here's an article from TideFans.com's Editor-in-Chief, Jess Nicholas, that sums up how I feel:

It is difficult to put into precise terms just what the hiring of Nick Saban as head football coach of The University of Alabama means.

On the surface, a coach was hired. Go down to the next layer, and it’s a football coach with a solid, perhaps spectacular SEC resume that includes multiple conference titles and a national championship. Another layer down, Alabama – for the second time in its history – took a sitting head coach away from a NFL franchise.

At the core of this issue, though, Alabama did much more than hire a football coach.

Alabama walked into the batter’s box, looked 10 years or more of horribly bad luck in the eye, and using a bat that has been cracked, torn and otherwise left for scrap, hit a homerun that has yet to land...read the rest of the article here