Click here for linkAlabama's greatest sports year is over. Four national titles in very different sports -- football, women's gymnastics, women's golf and softball -- plus a runner-up finish in men's golf qualifies as one of the great years ever by any athletics department.
Stanford holds the NCAA record for most national titles in one year -- six in 1991-92. Alabama tied the SEC record shared by Arkansas (1993-94) and Georgia (1998-99).
Once the celebrating ends, there's an intriguing question for the Crimson Tide. Was 2011-12 an aberration, or was it the push needed to challenge Florida as the best all-around SEC sports program?
What the Crimson Tide lacks in state population it can make up for with money. Alabama's $124.5 million in athletics revenue ranked third among public universities in 2010-11, behind only Texas and Ohio State.