Former Alabama quarterback and longtime college football coach Steve Sloan has died. Sloan, who won two national championships while playing under legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, was 79.

Steve Sloan was dubbed 'Kid Coach' after he took over the Red Raiders in 1975. A year later, he led one of the great teams in school history.

Steve Sloan, the youthful coach who led the Texas Tech football program to a 10-win season in 1976 and jolted the Red Raiders a year later by returning to his Southeastern Conference roots, died ...

Steve Sloan, who helped UCF football transition into a Division I program, passed away on Sunday in Orlando. He was 79. The Texas native spent nine years (1993-2002) as UCF’s athletic director ...

Alabama coach Bear Bryant, left, talks with his former star quarterback Steve Sloan, right, after practice in Miami for the Orange Bowl game New Years' night against Nebraska, Dec. 29, 1968.

UPDATE: Funeral arrangments can now be found at the bottom of this story. Steve Sloan, an All-American quarterback at Alabama who went on to a long coaching and administrative career, died Sunday ...

FILE - Alabama coach Bear Bryant, left, talks with his former star quarterback Steve Sloan, right, after practice in Miami for the Orange Bowl game New Years' night against Nebraska, Dec. 29, 1968.

Former two-time national champion Alabama quarterback and long-time college football head coach Steve Sloan has died at the age of 79. Sloan started his football career playing quarterback at ...

Steve Sloan, the former Alabama football quarterback and athletics director, died Sunday in Orlando, Florida at the age of 79, according to an obituary written by Wayne Atcheson, ...

Steve Sloan, who died April 14 at the age of 79, spent five autumns (1978-82), mostly unsuccessful, as the head football coach at Ole Miss. I covered those last two ...

Steve Sloan, who coached Texas Tech to a 10-2 season in 1976, died Sunday at age 79. Sloan is pictured on the cover of the 1975 Tech football media guide when he was starting the first of his ...