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Article: Curry: Riding Out the Tide; And Facing His First Big Game as Alabama Coach
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 10, 1987
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To coach at Alabama is to taste catfish, hominy and black-eyed
peas.
It is to know the gorgeous assault of magnolias, to be celebrated
by a state that is part antebellum and part glass towers and, above
all, to feel the heart-seizing drum roar of Roll Tide Roll.
In a state of such rich emotions, it is no surprise that the
hiring of a coach from Georgia named Bill Curry was received with
pure outrage and a death threat.
Steeped in the tradition of a university that has won more
football games than any other school in the last 65 years
(505-154-30), Alabama alumni were stunned at the hiring of an
academic-minded coach with a losing record. Since Curry didn't even
have the decency to be a ...