Pat Dye confirmed to AL.com on Monday afternoon Gene Stallings suffered a stroke earlier Monday.

The former Alabama coach suffered a "minor stroke" earlier in the day at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, awaiting a flight to Huntsville for a speaking engagement with Dye.

Dye confirmed the Legendary Coaching Events, "An Evening with Legendary Coaches Pat Dye and Gene Stallings," scheduled for Huntsville Monday night and Montgomery on Tuesday night, have been postponed, Dye said.

The former Auburn coach said the stroke happened "around 10:30 or 11 a.m."

(1/3) "This morning, awaiting his flight to Huntsville, Coach Gene Stallings suffered a minor stroke @ Dallas-Ft Worth airport." — Coach Pat Dye (@CoachPatDye_) August 14, 2017

(2/3) "He has been taken to the hospital, but is in good spirits. He is looking forward to rescheduling his Legendary Coaches Events... — Coach Pat Dye (@CoachPatDye_) August 14, 2017

(3/3) with Coach Dye in Huntsville and Montgomery as soon as doctors release him." Please keep him & his family in your thoughts & prayers. — Coach Pat Dye (@CoachPatDye_) August 14, 2017

Lynn Huggins, Dye's personal assistant, confirmed to AL.com that Stallings is stable and communicating.

"He's resting comfortably," she said. "He feels bad about putting everyone out. He feels like he let everyone down."

Huggins said Stallings said he is making it a point to re-schedule the event.

"We've been friends for a long time," Dye told AL.com. "We've done speaking things together. We're good friends. He's been active in the state of Alabama. He has a good name as anyone."

Dye, via Twitter, asked for people to keep Stallings and his family in their prayers.

Stallings suffered a slight stroke in May and was hospitalized in Montgomery.

Stallings, 82, was in Montgomery to attend the Jimmy Rane Foundation charity golf tournament dinner, where he introduced Clemson coach Dabo Swinney, one of his former players and assistants.

Following the function -- and approximately at 10 p.m. -- Stallings went to receive medical attention.

Doctors, he said in June, told him to stay away from "anything work-wise" for six weeks. The timetable would have set that time frame more than a week ago.

"They said quote, 'just rest my brain for a while," he said in June. "(The stroke) effected the left side of my brain, which effected the right side of the eye."