Ex-Bama Coach Mike Dubose Hospitalized After Accidental Shooting

OPP, AL - Former Alabama football coach Mike Dubose has been hospitalized after accidentally shooting himself in the stomach on Monday. According to the sheriff's office, it's believed Dubose's injuries are non-life threatening.

According to a report by WSFA, the Covington Country Sheriff's Office said Dubose accidentally "shot himself once in the abdomen shortly before 2 p.m. on Monday." Officials said DuBose was able to drive himself to Mizell Memorial Hospital in Opp, located in the same southern Alabama town as his farm, and then was airlifted about an hour away to the Southeast Medical Center in Dothan.

No further details were released regarding the accident. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Patch morning newsletter.)

DuBose went 24-23 overall and won a SEC title in 1999 while a head coach at Alabama but was run out a year later after his third losing season in four years and amid an NCAA investigation that resulted in a two-year bowl ban and five years of probation, among other penalties.

He earned another head coaching opportunity at Millsaps College from 2006-09, where he went 33-10 and twice earned a berth in the NCAA Division III playoffs.

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