30 biggest college football scandals of all time
By Ethan Lee
Mike Price and a Pensacola strip club
The Alabama Crimson Tide has always been one of the proudest programs in all of college football, but there was a time when the Tide had difficulties holding onto a head coach. Mike Price seemed promising, but a scandal cost him the opportunity to coach in Tuscaloosa.
Price had been a successful coach in Pullman, Washington and had turned the Washington State Cougars around. In 2003, Alabama was in need of a head coach, and so athletic director Mal Moore came calling.
Price arrived at Alabama and started making hires and then he was spotted at a strip club in Pensacola, Florida.
Reportedly, he spent hundreds of dollars at the club and then a woman spent about $1,000 for room service, charging it to Price’s hotel bill.
And then Price was fired.
Alabama then needed a new head coach. The Crimson Tide went on to hire Mike Shula, who failed to win more than he lost, and then went on to Nick Saban, who can’t seem to lose at all.