You know, fs4l, you're very right on this. Hardly anyone under the age of about 30 would remember a time when Alabama football was a job no one wanted. Mike DuBose was fired in 2000 after covering up an affair with his secretary. Dennis Franchione had a less-than-stellar record there following him. Mike Price was hired and then canned before ever coaching a game in 2003 (after the "Roll Tide" scandal with a stripper) and Mike Schula was not the second coming of his dad, Don. The program was a mess. So, yea, anything's possible...