Rush: My Hoover Team can beat Louisville, easy

Hall of Famer Joe Namath, an Alabama alum, told Fox Sports Radio on Monday that the Crimson Tide made a mistake firing Mike Shula. “I do not think it’s the right move . . . and I am suddenly ill about it. I don’t believe he got a fair shake. I don’t believe he should have been let go at this stage because as the youngest team in the league, he’s only been there three years. He’s building this team. He won 10 games last year, 10 games! . . . You take away from the kids a leader that is interested in developing the boys for life as well as a football team and you get rid of them because they didn’t beat Auburn? What other reason do they have? I think it’s screwed up. I’m very disappointed. I should not be saying what I’m saying, but I feel it. It stinks!”

“it unofficially ended late in the iron bowl when shula had to call a timeout in the most critical juncture of his head coaching career. suddenly, a big “ding” went off in bryant-denny stadium as well as with those playing the home version of the “mike shula can’t coach” game. as the television zeroed in on shula at that moment, there was no emotion, no eye movement, no sound or fury emanating from alabama’s nearly $2 million-a-year head coach. instead, it looked like a scene out of the infamous movie “weekend at bernie’s,” where two guys prop up the corpse of their boss, bernie lomax, for days on end to avoid being questioned about his murder. except bernie, even at room temperature, was the life of the party. shula has always been dead man walking.” HT AuburndominatesBama