In 2007, the University of Alabama had an enrollment of 25,580. The school’s football team was coming off a 6-7 season that felt ordinary given its mediocre recent standards. Head coach Mike Shula had gone .500 or worse in three of his four seasons at the helm. Shula’s predecessor, Dennis Franchione, had left for Texas A&M after just two years on the job. The coach before Franchione, Mike DuBose, got fired after a 3-8 campaign in 2000. And in the midst of it all, Alabama hired and fired Mike Price: He never coached a game for the Crimson Tide, as the school rescinded his contract in May 2003 after a particularly expensive night at a strip club and a big room service bill that an unidentified woman in his hotel room had run up.
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