timNem
12-10-2006, 01:43 AM
A very good letter to BOT and AD
http://alabama.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=427&tid=85042912&mid=85042912&sid=885&style=2
Dear BOT members and Athletic Department bureaucracy,
I am ashamed and saddened as I write this correspondence to you as a fan and follower of our beloved Alabama Crimson Tide. This has been a dark day in the history of this university’s athletic program. Not because of the public humiliation and national ridicule that we have received over the rejection of our offer to Coach Rodriguez because who are we to judge where a man’s heart lies. I have no ill will toward a man for doing what is best for his family and himself. This is the darkest day at the University of Alabama in my thirty-five years of life because I found out today that we had two chances to restore our glory and shake the pillars of heaven in the college football universe, but our meddlesome Board of Trustees and Athletic pencil pushers chose not what was best for our football program but what was best for their own self interest and petty grievances. I learned earlier this evening of a conspiracy by athletic department bureaucrats to thwart the attempts of our President and Athletic Director to sign Miami Dolphins coach Nick Saban, because of his desire to have total control over the football operations and as Coach Moore has said “reevaluate every aspect of our program” (i.e. remove non essential personnel from the department) Upon sharing this finding to a highly connected friend and alum. He shared with me a story that Steve Spurrier could have been hired except for it was nixed by Board of Trustee members that wanted to approve of his staff and leave out his choice of defensive coordinator Bill “Brother” Oliver over personal reasons.
Tonight I sit concerned about the future of something that has been a wonderful diversion from everyday life called Alabama football. My beloved Crimson Tide sits teetering on a precipice between the peek that it once knew and canyon floor where the Ole Misses, Minnesotas and Texas A&Ms sit trying to regain their long faded glory. To you BOT and AD elites in your long white ivory tower looking down on I the average Alabama fan. For that is what I am. I have grown up in this state and did not attend the University. I attended Samford University. I do not pay my donation to Tide Pride and go to every game. I go with friends who have spare tickets or I purchase them from a broker when I have the chance. I and most others like me take in most of the games on Saturday in front of our televisions or while listening on the radio tending to the in and outs of our lives. I and the ones like me represent what Richard Nixon new well, “the silent majority”. I may be louder than most of that majority because I have called into a radio talk show or posted on the internet, but I speak for many with the same beliefs as I have stated. We believe that the ignorance and hubris of the elite will propel us off that precipice which we sit to a tragedy of Shakespearean proportion. It will be the unraveling of one the threads that make up the cultural tapestry that is woven into the fabric of the state of Alabama.
It has been almost a quarter century since the passing of Coach Bryant. What are we left with? A program that resembles ancient Roman Empire in her last days run by fat aristocrats and pointy headed bureaucrats seeking an emperor that they can control not one that can provide leadership to restore the empire to it former glory. We have become like Miss Scarlett ripping down the curtains in Gone with the Wind with that one last chance to present ourselves to Rhet Butler to prove that we are worthy , when the response will be “Frankly my dear. I don’t give a damn!” I call on the members of the Board Trustees remember your love for your school and do what is right return us to the glory of Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, and Paul W. "Bear" Bryant", so that we shall rise out of the ashes like a Crimson phoenix .
Roll Tide Roll
Charlie Giles
http://alabama.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=427&tid=85042912&mid=85042912&sid=885&style=2
Dear BOT members and Athletic Department bureaucracy,
I am ashamed and saddened as I write this correspondence to you as a fan and follower of our beloved Alabama Crimson Tide. This has been a dark day in the history of this university’s athletic program. Not because of the public humiliation and national ridicule that we have received over the rejection of our offer to Coach Rodriguez because who are we to judge where a man’s heart lies. I have no ill will toward a man for doing what is best for his family and himself. This is the darkest day at the University of Alabama in my thirty-five years of life because I found out today that we had two chances to restore our glory and shake the pillars of heaven in the college football universe, but our meddlesome Board of Trustees and Athletic pencil pushers chose not what was best for our football program but what was best for their own self interest and petty grievances. I learned earlier this evening of a conspiracy by athletic department bureaucrats to thwart the attempts of our President and Athletic Director to sign Miami Dolphins coach Nick Saban, because of his desire to have total control over the football operations and as Coach Moore has said “reevaluate every aspect of our program” (i.e. remove non essential personnel from the department) Upon sharing this finding to a highly connected friend and alum. He shared with me a story that Steve Spurrier could have been hired except for it was nixed by Board of Trustee members that wanted to approve of his staff and leave out his choice of defensive coordinator Bill “Brother” Oliver over personal reasons.
Tonight I sit concerned about the future of something that has been a wonderful diversion from everyday life called Alabama football. My beloved Crimson Tide sits teetering on a precipice between the peek that it once knew and canyon floor where the Ole Misses, Minnesotas and Texas A&Ms sit trying to regain their long faded glory. To you BOT and AD elites in your long white ivory tower looking down on I the average Alabama fan. For that is what I am. I have grown up in this state and did not attend the University. I attended Samford University. I do not pay my donation to Tide Pride and go to every game. I go with friends who have spare tickets or I purchase them from a broker when I have the chance. I and most others like me take in most of the games on Saturday in front of our televisions or while listening on the radio tending to the in and outs of our lives. I and the ones like me represent what Richard Nixon new well, “the silent majority”. I may be louder than most of that majority because I have called into a radio talk show or posted on the internet, but I speak for many with the same beliefs as I have stated. We believe that the ignorance and hubris of the elite will propel us off that precipice which we sit to a tragedy of Shakespearean proportion. It will be the unraveling of one the threads that make up the cultural tapestry that is woven into the fabric of the state of Alabama.
It has been almost a quarter century since the passing of Coach Bryant. What are we left with? A program that resembles ancient Roman Empire in her last days run by fat aristocrats and pointy headed bureaucrats seeking an emperor that they can control not one that can provide leadership to restore the empire to it former glory. We have become like Miss Scarlett ripping down the curtains in Gone with the Wind with that one last chance to present ourselves to Rhet Butler to prove that we are worthy , when the response will be “Frankly my dear. I don’t give a damn!” I call on the members of the Board Trustees remember your love for your school and do what is right return us to the glory of Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, and Paul W. "Bear" Bryant", so that we shall rise out of the ashes like a Crimson phoenix .
Roll Tide Roll
Charlie Giles