I was thinking exactly what Boston Bengal said, Charlie Mac. ...Saban was more like an equalizer for having to suffer through Curley Hallman.
Saban was a good coach, and he brought us the NC. Charlie Mac was our Bear, and we ran him out of town--only to suffer through 20 bad years before Saban arrived. The trigger happy people around here this week are making me feel sick.
I hope LSU never has a "Bear". Bama certainly has a right to be proud, but . . . the hero worship at Bama is so strong it is a little disturbing. No other coach will ever measure up at Bama. LSU has Bernie Moore, Paul Deitzel, Cholly Mac, and Nick Saban. That's LSU's tradition and there ain't a damn thing wrong with it.
I don't know man, I think we'd all welcome a Bear Bryant like coach with open arms. Anyone that wins that many games and national titles for a school certainly deserves some kind of "hero worship". We would certainly have "worshipped" Saban in a similar way had he stayed and won a few more national titles.
My interest has been aroused. I decided to look up the two(Bear and McClendon) and make a little comparison, not including ties. McClendon 18yrs.........137-59 Bear 25yrs.........232-46.......6 NC's
