You really don't have a life do you?
Glass houses? Cast stones!
1 bama scandal- This is a top tier school!
The short version of this scandal,
according to Sports Illustrated, is that Coach Price went to Pensacola for a golf outing, got rowdy in a bar/strip club and allowed a woman (not his wife) to run a room service bill of close to $1,000. Lap dances?
2 bama dirty? No sir!
What many in recent decades have forgotten is that, in some quarters, during his early years in Tuscaloosa, Coach Bryant had a reputation for teaching his players to play "dirty" in an effort to win at all costs.
This charge was loudest after one of Georgia Tech head coach Bobby Dodd's players was severely injured in a game against 'Bama, setting off the Atlanta press.
3 coaches leaving the tide? Never!
That's why the departures of
Wallace Wade for Duke (Duke!),
Bill Curry for Kentucky and
Dennis Franchione for...for wherever hell is came as such a surprise and, yes, scandal.
See, Bill Curry, coaches leave Kentucky for Alabama, not the other way around (even with a detour in College Station). See, Franchione, you don't leave
for College Station; you leave
from College Station.
4 bama players and agent troubles?
Langham, a defensive back, signed early with a pro agent in anticipation of the NFL draft in 1993. Two years later, the NCAA imposed sanctions resulting from this action,
according to Sports Illustrated. The sanctions included probation, scholarship limitations, a postseason ban (1995), forfeit of wins in 1993 and, most harmful, scholarship reductions.
5.ACT cheating, bama no way!
Albert Means was a prep superstar in his hometown of Memphis. Most colleges wanted him to come to them and play defensive tackle. Named Mr. Football in Tennessee in 1999 as well as a high school All-American, Means could go anywhere he wanted.
One problem with that concept,
according to USA Today, was that Means didn't test well and probably wouldn't qualify to play college ball because of low ACT or SAT scores. So, an enterprising Alabama booster named Logan Young came up with a solution.
Have someone else take the tests for Albert.
Oh, and arrange to pay one of his high school coaches $150,000 to insure that Albert would go to Alabama.
Those acts and others caused Alabama to receive a two-year bowl ban and five years of probation from the NCAA. In addition, Alabama lost 21 scholarships and almost received the "death penalty"—having the program disbanded for a proscribed period.
Means played only a handful of games at Tuscaloosa under Coach Mike DuBose. After the scandal broke, he transferred to Memphis, where he was moderately successful on the field.
