Talk:Bear Bryant

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Contents 1 Bear All-Americas 2 "Bear" 3 Bryant's military career 4 Number of Junction survivors 5 This page needs to be slimmed down 6 Link Removal 7 Fansite Template

[edit] Bear All-Americas

I assume this section is meant to include players coached by Bryant who received "All-American" honors. I think it would be more useful to further describe what "All-Americas" are (are these AP All-Americans? Kodak? Playboy? McDonald's? Parade?). And it's probably more useful for Wikipedia to list all of these in another article and link that one to here rather than just to put forth a small list as evidence of Bryant's accomplishments. Dystopos 16:29, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

• This might be the sloppiest Wikipedia page I've ever seen. References to "Bama" are inappropriate, there's lots of horrible English, and the formatting is quite poor. unsigned comment by User:69.109.164.234

All that sloppy stuff was written by a Bama fanboy. Expectations must be lowered accordingly. I've cleaned up the stuff that was worth keeping, and deleted the rest. Microtonal...(Put your head on my shoulder) 18:39, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Remember, no personal attacks. Keep up the good work. Dystopos 20:00, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Bear"

This nickname has been reported so many times. Please cite your source for this information. -Scaife ^(Talk) Don't forget Hanlon's Razor 07:31, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

There are any number of sources that report the bear-wrestling story[1] (ignoring the Wikipedia back-citations, of course). The MSN Encarta article might be slightly more authoritative. Whether the story is actually true and not just an oft-repeated folk-legend, I can't say, at least not without doing further research. Microtonal 07:52, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Bryant himself recounted the story in his autobiography, Bear: The Life and Times of Alabama's Coach Paul Bryant 128.158.14.42 21:59, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bryant's military career

Someone needs to clarify exactly what the sequence was in respect to his military service in WWII - First the article says he enlisted in the Navy; then it says he served in the North African campaign which was early in the war; ok; then it says he was Honorably Discharged in order to train recruits in North Carlina; ok; and then it says he attained the rank of Lt. Commander. Someone please do a better job of explaining how an enlisted man who was discharged attained the rank of Lt. Commander.--Hokeman 16:57, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Number of Junction survivors

The number of Junction "survivors" was recently changed from 35 to 29. An (admittedly brief) web search turned up 35 as the most commonly cited number - this page, for example, lists 35 names. (I also saw the number 34 cited.) I put a {{fact}} label on it. Pawl 16:58, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This page needs to be slimmed down

This page is starting to read like a book which not the purpose of this site. Excessive unsourced narration removed on 11/30/06

There is no length requirement for articles. He is an important subject for college football and needs to be discussed throughly and completely. If that takes a lot of space, then so be it. I resorted the ratings back to B and High as the WikiProject College football has set criteria for ratings and he is high priority. --MECU≈talk 03:50, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link Removal

I have removed from the "External Links" section the links to "Bama Dog Home Page," "TideFans.com Home Page," and "Planet Tide Blog." These are not Bryant-related sites; these are Alabama football fan sites, and while Bryant is known mainly as the coach of Alabama, those sites deal with Alabama football, and not necessarily Bear Bryant. I have deleted these links before, only to find that they have been put back in the "External Links" section. I do not know if it is the operators of these sites trying to increase publicity for their sites, but either way those links do not belong here. They have been removed, and if re-posted, they will be removed again.

[edit] Fansite Template

I removed the fansite template. It looks like most of the offending material has been removed since the template was applied. Cogswobble 15:37, 22 March 2007 (UTC)