Coach Gene Stallings - Football Saturdays

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  • čas přidán 21. 09. 2014
  • 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.

Komentáře • 82

  • @jorgemontefusco650
    @jorgemontefusco650 Před 2 lety +4

    Men like Gene Stallings come into your life but once. He and all like him are what made America what it is.

  • @Arientis
    @Arientis Před rokem +5

    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!

  • @sammylacks4937
    @sammylacks4937 Před rokem +4

    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.

  • @TrueLifeAdventures
    @TrueLifeAdventures Před 4 lety +9

    Hugging a child, protecting them and showing them love is the manliest thing you can do. Thank you Coach Stallings.

  • @kitrichardson5573
    @kitrichardson5573 Před 3 lety +5

    It’s not often that you hear a story that makes you a better person. I just heard such a story

  • @thelastjohnwayne
    @thelastjohnwayne Před 3 lety +4

    I always really liked Coach Stallings

  • @79xlch
    @79xlch Před 3 lety +5

    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.

  • @5thtenn
    @5thtenn Před 8 lety +22

    Coach Stallings and Coach Bryant were the finest men I met in sports anywhere.

  • @zippyzipster46
    @zippyzipster46 Před 2 lety +4

    Class. And integrity. Bear would have been so proud of him. Honest hard work. And the best defense I’ve ever seen in 1992.

    • @andrewjean79
      @andrewjean79 Před měsícem

      Alabama’s 1992 defense is the best defense in college football history.

  • @jaysnowden2
    @jaysnowden2 Před 2 lety +2

    Johnny was so loved by us Bama fans. Coach Stallings was and is a remarkable man of great character.

  • @winfordt.mcguillacutty2553

    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

  • @jayjohnson6158
    @jayjohnson6158 Před rokem +3

    Love and respect for Coach Stallings and his family!

  • @Themikeandstacey
    @Themikeandstacey Před 5 lety +6

    Coach Stallings brought back class and dignity to the UofA.

  • @kckc6588
    @kckc6588 Před 3 lety +3

    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.

  • @sloanchampion85
    @sloanchampion85 Před 6 lety +15

    That's a stand up man right there.....yes sir a real man

  • @ckbama17
    @ckbama17 Před 4 lety +6

    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.

    • @troydixzon9771
      @troydixzon9771 Před 2 lety +1

      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

  • @vince065us
    @vince065us Před 9 lety +22

    God bless the Stallings family.R.I.P.,John Mark.

  • @boblasher1
    @boblasher1 Před 9 lety +45

    They don't make coaches or men like this anymore. Great man!!

    • @joeday4293
      @joeday4293 Před 6 lety +4

      Gene Stallings may be the single finest man ever associated with the game of football. Pure class.

    • @winfordt.mcguillacutty2553
      @winfordt.mcguillacutty2553 Před 3 lety +2

      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

    • @juanbarberis7192
      @juanbarberis7192 Před rokem +1

      Dabo Sweeney is an example that they do exist these days. Thank you, Coach Stallings, for your example and mentorship.

  • @turdferguson290
    @turdferguson290 Před 6 lety +9

    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.

    • @zippyzipster46
      @zippyzipster46 Před 2 lety +2

      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.

  • @johngluck6938
    @johngluck6938 Před 5 lety +2

    Class act! God Bless Coach Stallings!!

  • @TheWickerMan1981
    @TheWickerMan1981 Před 6 lety +8

    We love you, Coach Stallings!

  • @kevinashby3784
    @kevinashby3784 Před 2 lety +1

    That’s the best story I’ve heard in a long time.

  • @ignatiusjk
    @ignatiusjk Před 7 lety +9

    Class act,never really knew much about Gene Stallings but glad he's the way he is.

    • @kenperk9854
      @kenperk9854 Před 2 lety +1

      Gene Stallings came to Tuscaloosa to feed people after historic tornado outbreak

    • @troydixson1394
      @troydixson1394 Před rokem +1

      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

  • @johnmoore5294
    @johnmoore5294 Před 8 lety +5

    Great motivator and speaker. Was honored to meet him in 1968 at my High school football banquet.

  • @jaycollins9155
    @jaycollins9155 Před 2 lety +1

    You are a good man and father Mr. Stallings ROLL TIDE FOR JOHNNY!!!!!

  • @sloanchampion85
    @sloanchampion85 Před 6 lety +17

    Coach Stallings sounds so much like Coach Bryant

  • @bengreen564
    @bengreen564 Před 3 lety +2

    I love bear and Stallings they are awesome men

  • @BobSellersSings
    @BobSellersSings Před 3 lety +2

    Love Coach Stallings!!! God bless him.

  • @Amber90125
    @Amber90125 Před 3 lety +2

    Mentored by two of the best football coaches Bear Bryant & Tom Landry.

  • @jorgehz127
    @jorgehz127 Před 9 lety +8

    LEGEND.

  • @thomasayer7511
    @thomasayer7511 Před 2 lety +1

    One of my personal heroes.

  • @staciecarter5361
    @staciecarter5361 Před 9 lety +12

    love coach stallings

  • @williampomeroy3576
    @williampomeroy3576 Před 6 měsíci

    I remember watching this on TV many years ago. Roll Tide John Mark!

  • @burjazz
    @burjazz Před 6 lety +3

    Thanks Coach and John.

  • @oranculpepper9008
    @oranculpepper9008 Před 4 lety +1

    GOD BLESS Gene Stallings a good man, and I am a Tennessee fan.

  • @sloanchampion85
    @sloanchampion85 Před 6 lety +3

    God bless you and your family Coach Stallings

  • @burjazz
    @burjazz Před 6 lety +4

    Good job, Tim Brando.

  • @abbyboyone
    @abbyboyone Před 9 lety +2

    The alabama commercial brought me here. Very beautiful story. God bless.

  • @michaeliovine2462
    @michaeliovine2462 Před 3 lety +1

    Coach Stallings love him damn good man

  • @SteadyWaters
    @SteadyWaters Před 9 měsíci +2

    I hated it when he left, and still can't believe some people actually wanted him gone

  • @nathantaylor-gk5qm
    @nathantaylor-gk5qm Před rokem

    Great story teller.

  • @mookie449
    @mookie449 Před 3 lety

    yeah boy...listening to these good ol' grits...

  • @brucefranklin1317
    @brucefranklin1317 Před 2 lety +2

    Nick saban bear bryant.
    Gene stallings. All great guys.

  • @chefpablo2000
    @chefpablo2000 Před rokem +1

    My Father went to Bible study with Gene Stallings, at Texas AM in college station.

  • @thehonksterkadunedalickyda7036

    He seems like he is my Grandfather, a great role model to look up to

  • @kenaldrup2148
    @kenaldrup2148 Před 6 lety +4

    I wish I could have met Johnny!

  • @wrightpress
    @wrightpress Před 6 lety +2

    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.

  • @dougfarrer1693
    @dougfarrer1693 Před 3 lety

    Great man

  • @jeffharrison1277
    @jeffharrison1277 Před 5 lety

    Love u,Coach Stallings!!RIP,Johnny.

  • @lcrane5241
    @lcrane5241 Před 7 lety +1

    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"

  • @1972ibleedcrimson
    @1972ibleedcrimson Před 4 lety +1

    Man, that choked me up bad about Johnny.
    You can even see Tim Brando about to lose it at 16:25

  • @pauljonessoftware
    @pauljonessoftware Před 5 lety +1

    If this is the man who mentored Dabo Swinney, I got to know more about him.

  • @maxpuppy96
    @maxpuppy96 Před rokem

    Wish I could be half the man as coach Stallings.

  • @swampfuel20
    @swampfuel20 Před 8 lety +1

    16:26 got me as well... Cheers Coach!!

  • @jaysnowden2
    @jaysnowden2 Před 2 lety

    Hats off to the older man on horseback working cattle

  • @mrlaw711
    @mrlaw711 Před rokem

    There are hose good men....and then a few great ones.

  • @cbarkwell1000
    @cbarkwell1000 Před 4 lety

    Paris, Texas is not 2 hours North of Dallas. It's South of Dallas off of I-30.

  • @perryheatherly4241
    @perryheatherly4241 Před 3 lety +1

    I was at the Sugar Bowl when Alabama stomped Miami.

  • @user-dt8lf2pk6y
    @user-dt8lf2pk6y Před 9 měsíci

    ❤ g

  • @troydixon3396
    @troydixon3396 Před 2 lety

    Her I like

  • @halbennett6256
    @halbennett6256 Před 9 lety +3

    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.

    • @badbishopgoesgood
      @badbishopgoesgood Před 9 lety +1

      Hal Bennett there's always somebody around to put a turd in the punchbowl. What a did shit

    • @badbishopgoesgood
      @badbishopgoesgood Před 9 lety +1

      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.

    • @thomasbryant3315
      @thomasbryant3315 Před 9 lety +1

      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.

    • @halbennett6256
      @halbennett6256 Před 8 lety +1

      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?

    • @ajk
      @ajk Před 3 lety

      @@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......

  • @user-tg3ey6sm1o
    @user-tg3ey6sm1o Před 8 měsíci

    Cuddle me pls

  • @NVRAMboi
    @NVRAMboi Před 7 lety

    Brando can screw up an anvil. Had I known he was in this I wouldn't have clicked on it.

    • @paleo704
      @paleo704 Před 5 lety +1

      NVRAMboi what did he do wrong

  • @michaelnelson1128
    @michaelnelson1128 Před 2 lety +1

    If you don't shed a tear watching you have no soul