Coach Gene Stallings - Football Saturdays
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- This video features Tim Brando travelling to the Hike-A-Way Ranch in Paris, Texas to sit down with Hall of Fame Head Coach Gene Stallings. One of the original Junction Boys, Stallings talks about his early years in Paris and playing for Bear Bryant at Texas A&M and later coaching with him at Alabama. Stallings also tells Tim about his return to Tuscaloosa as the Crimson Tide’s head coach in 1990 and how he coached them to a national title two years later. Stallings retired from the sidelines in 1996, but has stayed close to Tuscaloosa through his work with the Rise School.
Coach Stallings was the portrait of what a father should be and performed that duty while coaching Johnny going with him daily. It's so pleasing and worth the price of a ticket to do the right thing everyday.
Coach Stallings came to my college practice back in 2012 on complete surprise. Our HC called us up and Coach Stallings talked to us for a few minutes. Not a single player spoke or looked elsewhere because coach had the instant credibility. I’ll always respect Coach and never forget that moment he took out of his time to talk to our team!
Hugging a child, protecting them and showing them love is the manliest thing you can do. Thank you Coach Stallings.
Men like Gene Stallings come into your life but once. He and all like him are what made America what it is.
I met Coach Stallings at a plant opening ceremony in 1993 with all of the SEC coaches there.They gave out footballs to all that attended so I had Coach Stallings sign it. After he signed it Coach asked if I wanted anyone else to sign it. I said NO so fast he did one of those deep down laughs. Roll Tide Coach and God Bless you and your whole family.
It’s not often that you hear a story that makes you a better person. I just heard such a story
Coach Stallings and Coach Bryant were the finest men I met in sports anywhere.
What's this shit about a number
I always really liked Coach Stallings
Love and respect for Coach Stallings and his family!
Johnny was so loved by us Bama fans. Coach Stallings was and is a remarkable man of great character.
Class. And integrity. Bear would have been so proud of him. Honest hard work. And the best defense I’ve ever seen in 1992.
Alabama’s 1992 defense is the best defense in college football history.
Coach Stallings brought back class and dignity to the UofA.
Coach Bryant passed when I was very young. This man brought it back to T-town and now Saban has taken it to a whole new level, but it is a different atmosphere now
That's a stand up man right there.....yes sir a real man
They don't make coaches or men like this anymore. Great man!!
Gene Stallings may be the single finest man ever associated with the game of football. Pure class.
No doubt. To me he was almost a mirrored image of Coach Bryant though he didn't hang around that like. Just how he carried himself was such a class act
Dabo Sweeney is an example that they do exist these days. Thank you, Coach Stallings, for your example and mentorship.
I was 10 when Alabama won the title in 92’..... I looked at him like the Bear. Loved listening to him and Pat talk about football on the Finebaum show over the years.
God bless the Stallings family.R.I.P.,John Mark.
I love hearing coach Stallings tell the story about John Mark. It’s just good all around and a great inspiration to anyone with children...Thanks coach for doing it right.
Imagine if he had Reggie Ragland rem that national championship Alabama lost to Ohio st rangeland was out for the sec half and boy oh boy ole Ezekiel Elliot run wild
Coach Stallings! A True Legend ...One That will live on forever in Alabama Lore! Not just for winning football games, but for fighting against SIN! Go Ahead and Laugh. He's a wise man that realizes what's happening and brave enough to express it. YUT! Sir! Coach Saban, Process of winning.
There is a great difference in Stallings and Saban. Talking about character. Stallings has given so much to the world around him. Not just trophies that will collect dust.
That’s the best story I’ve heard in a long time.
You are a good man and father Mr. Stallings ROLL TIDE FOR JOHNNY!!!!!
We love you, Coach Stallings!
I love bear and Stallings they are awesome men
Class act! God Bless Coach Stallings!!
Coach Stallings sounds so much like Coach Bryant
Thought the same thing.
Class act,never really knew much about Gene Stallings but glad he's the way he is.
Gene Stallings came to Tuscaloosa to feed people after historic tornado outbreak
He was a natural cloan he believed in a process that he witnessed that worked on the field and off the field never bad mouth anybody not one ref or other coach
One of my personal heroes.
Great motivator and speaker. Was honored to meet him in 1968 at my High school football banquet.
Mentored by two of the best football coaches Bear Bryant & Tom Landry.
LEGEND.
Love Coach Stallings!!! God bless him.
I remember watching this on TV many years ago. Roll Tide John Mark!
love coach stallings
GOD BLESS Gene Stallings a good man, and I am a Tennessee fan.
God bless you and your family Coach Stallings
The alabama commercial brought me here. Very beautiful story. God bless.
the 16:26 mark is tough to watch without crying....
Thanks Coach and John.
Good job, Tim Brando.
Coach Stallings love him damn good man
Great story teller.
yeah boy...listening to these good ol' grits...
I hated it when he left, and still can't believe some people actually wanted him gone
Nick saban bear bryant.
Gene stallings. All great guys.
He seems like he is my Grandfather, a great role model to look up to
My Father went to Bible study with Gene Stallings, at Texas AM in college station.
Raymond Emmett Berry, NFL Hall of Famer, Four time baseball all star Eddie Robinson, and Bebes may be questionably the most well-known sports figures from Paris, but John Chisum and Admiral J.O. Richardson and even W.J. McDonald lead the crowd. The town is fortunate to have many who went out into the world.
I wish I could have met Johnny!
Great man
The last line says it all " If I did one thing in my coaching profession it was to make the awareness that a child with special needs was not as bad as what they would see because they saw Johnny"
Love u,Coach Stallings!!RIP,Johnny.
My sister and 2nd brother in law, have a girl with Down syndrome. They had the perfect life before that. At the hospital in Ames Iowa, we were talking. He was full of questions and he was scared to death. I said, " it doesn't matter, you are going to Love her no matter what." That's 17 years ago.
Man, that choked me up bad about Johnny.
You can even see Tim Brando about to lose it at 16:25
Wish I could be half the man as coach Stallings.
If this is the man who mentored Dabo Swinney, I got to know more about him.
16:26 got me as well... Cheers Coach!!
Hats off to the older man on horseback working cattle
There are hose good men....and then a few great ones.
Paris, Texas is not 2 hours North of Dallas. It's South of Dallas off of I-30.
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I was at the Sugar Bowl when Alabama stomped Miami.
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Tim Brando had a great opportunity here to do something that really has never been done thoroughly, and that is to cover in sufficient detail Bear Bryant's time at Texas A&M. But he didn't do it. It has been a great disappointment to me to see that since the death of Birmingham News sports editor Benny Marshall in about 1969, there has been no one who could get to the meat of an Alabama football story like Marshall and two on his staff, Clyde Bolton and Alf Van Hoose, could. The meat of Gene Stallings' story in football, in my opinion, includes first and foremost the Junction Boys story. That was one of the unique events in college football history. Stallings was one of the Junction Boys, and Bear Bryant was his head coach. Benny Marshall had his personal problems, but since he died we have not seen the quality of college football reporting in the state of Alabama that he and his staff did. Brando is an LSU guy (and really a basketball guy) and he has never been able to tell a story about Alabama football without revealing that he's really not that interested in it. This interview he did of Stallings once again shows that.
Hal Bennett there's always somebody around to put a turd in the punchbowl. What a did shit
Hal Bennett and furthermore you dipshit this is a story about a father much more than a football coach. Look up the word obtuse - fits you to a tee.
badbishopgoesgood I'm from Philadelphia and I loved this video. It was great. It even softened me to the Cowboys almost and that is saying something. It's about the man and his son and a legacy and it is beautiful and awesome. I'm glad I could see it without too much " Inside information " like Hal Bennett. Thanks.
I'm sorry you guys feel this way. This interview and my comments were several years ago. I wonder at this point if I saw an edited, abridged version of this interview. I cannot understand it any other way. This (above) version clearly includes a discussion of the Junction Boys discussion. If I had seen THIS version I doubt very seriously if I would have said what I did (above). I would encourage the "bishop" to clean up his language at least in a public venue like this. I will stand by my opinion of Tim Brando as an LSU guy. I have kept up with him for years. His father was a Louisiana sports guy -- from Shreveport, I believe -- of some sort, and Tim Brando's supposed objectivity when he talked about either Alabama or LSU football, particularly in the earlier stages of his career, was painful for me, being an Alabama fan living in Louisiana -- I was there for a total of 28 years. As Brando has aged, he MAY have tempered his bias in favor of LSU. But I will maintain until my dying day that sportswriters are just as biased as ANY fan who ever had a favorite team. And Tim Brando certainly comes into that discussion. The thing I most remember about Brando and the Alabama-LSU rivalry was his prediction, when Saban was at LSU, that LSU would dominate the SEC for years to come. My conclusion here is that I am the unwitting victim of a network editor who didn't feel it necessary to include the Bear Bryant/Junction Boys part of the Interview. How about taking it a little easier on me next time, Bishop?
@@halbennett6256 Ever hear of the Mandela Effect Hal? Seems odd you'd see the same video two times within a year, and each one is different yet was not changed seemingly physically. It might be one of those......
Cuddle me pls
Brando can screw up an anvil. Had I known he was in this I wouldn't have clicked on it.
NVRAMboi what did he do wrong
If you don't shed a tear watching you have no soul