What’s it like to win 31 conference titles and 17 national titles? You can ask Alabama.
The 1920s. The 1960s. The 1970s. 2009 and on to the present. Alabama has had a dominant presence in every iteration of college football thanks to being able to hire elite - and iconic - coaches. Sure they have their clunker hires as well — Mike Price, Dennis Franchione, and Mike Shula come to mind — but that doesn’t really matter. Every program in the country makes terrible hires at some point; the important part is that you nail a hire or two and keep that guy around for as long as possible.