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From Wikipedia...the Bama story..


Recent history

Following the death of Bear Bryant, the Crimson Tide football program has had its high points and its low points. Since the retirement of Bryant, the team has had seven different head coaches: Ray Perkins, Bill Curry, Gene Stallings, Mike Dubose, Dennis Franchione, Mike Price, and Mike Shula. The Tide won its last national championship in 1992 against the University of Miami Hurricanes during the Stallings tenure.
Following Gene Stallings's retirement in 1996, defensive coordinator Mike Dubose was named head coach. He proved to be an excellent recruiter of defensive linemen, though as a head coach he wasn't as effective. He benefited tremendously from the leadership of Shaun Alexander and Chris Samuels, winning the SEC championship in 1999. Expectations quickly rose for the Tide, which started the season as high as No. 3 in some polls.

The Tide quickly lowered, ending up 3-8 in a season best exemplified by a last-second loss to Central Florida. Dubose was fired and replaced by an up-and-coming coach from TCU, Dennis Franchione.
The media-savvy Franchione gained popularity quickly with his coaching style and media-friendly press conferences. He led Alabama to two winning seasons in 2001 and 2002, going 7-5 and 10-3, respectively.
After NCAA sanctions hit in 2001, Franchione was rumored to be interested in other jobs, including the Kansas opening. One year later, under much media scrutiny, Franchione left for Texas A&M.

After the well-documented Mike Price fiasco [3], Miami Dolphins quarterbacks coach Mike Shula was hired after a rushed search. It was his first head coaching job at any level. Shula went through many first-year pains, ending up 4-9 after suffering heartbreaking narrow defeats to Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Slight improvement during his second season sent the Alabama Crimson Tide to a 6-6 record and the Music City Bowl, its first bowl in three years. The season started off with great promise as the Tide rolled to a 3-0 start, but ultimately season ending injuries to the entire st arting backfield doomed the Tide's chances of any great successes.

The
2004 recruiting class was Alabama's first "full" recruiting class since
2001 due to the harsh penalties imposed on the program by the NCAA resulting in the loss of 21 total scholarships over 3 years.

The NCAA penalties were caused by questionable recruiting tactics by an Alabama booster. The booster, Logan Young Jr. (an alumnus of Vanderbilt University), was sentenced to three years in prison for paying high school coach Lynn Lang $150,000 to get his Prep All-American defensive lineman Albert Means to go to Alabama. After the investigation was over, in addition to the loss of scholarships, Alabama was banned from bowl games for two years and was put on five years probation. Young later died in his Memphis home. Investigators initially concluded Young was violently murdered. However, the investigators ultimately concluded that Young's death resulted from a fall he sustained while walking up the stairs in his home.
In 2005, Alabama was indeed back. Alabama rolled to a 10-2 record including a thrilling 13-10 win over pass happy Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl. They had a dominating defense that shut down Texas Tech's offense.
The most points they gave up was 28, in a 28-18 loss to Auburn in the Iron Bowl. The Tide had trouble scoring at times because of a season-ending injury to Tyrone Prothro, Brodie Croyle's best target and because of poor play on the offensive line. They opened the season with a dominating 9-0 record, including beating the hated SEC rival, the Tennessee Volunteers, and manhandling the Florida Gators by a score of 31-3. A number 3 ranked LSU team ended their streak with a home-defeat in overtime, and the Tide lost to Auburn in the Iron Bowl the next week after the defense surrendered 21 first quarter points.
On November 27, 2006, after a regular-season campaign that ended in a disappointing 6-6 record (including losses of 8 points or less to conference opponents Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi State, and Auburn), head coach Mike Shula was fired and defensive coordinator Joe Kines was announced as Alabama's interim head coach.