Poor Santonio Beard.
It could not have been an easy job for him in the fall of 2001.
Alabama was a train wreck in-waiting: The Tide had just changed coaches after a disastrous 3-8 campaign that saw the Flop from Opp fired and the university in disgrace from Dubose’s sexual harassment lawsuit. Worse, there was a war fomenting in the fanbase between supporters of incumbent Andrew Zow and those that wanted hyped Hoover product Tyler Watts to be the starting quarterback. It would be a distraction that eventually took on nasty racial tones in some of the darker corners of fandom.