re: *** Official Fire Anthony Grant Part Deux ***

If u only support a winner, u are not much of a fan.

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Fans that can't support the players don't deserve a winning team or good players.

Saban believes that fans have a big impact on recruiting, on the games and on the overall health of a program. He has said this repeatedly since day one. I guess some "Bama bball fans" know better. Wimp never stopped saying the same while he was Bama's coach.

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Right now, we have an inept coach and an AD who doesn't care, and just wants us to swallow it. I guess my question is: in what other way can a fanbase show that it isn't satisfied? Clearly the answer isn't to buy more season tickets, $6 cokes in leftover football souvenir cups and $8 chicken fingers while we watch the program take more and more steps backwards.

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Saying players who don't win don't deserve support is ignorant and childish. They are playing their best that they are taught. Sure it is frustrating to see the wY we lose some games but taking it out on the teams at UA is not the answer IMO

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I agree with this, and I dfinitely don't think that the players don't deserve the support. I think they deserve more. They deserve an athletic department that supports their sport and wants to invest in it. They deserve a coach that won't waste their only college career. Me saying to stop buying tickets isn't about taking any anger out on players, it's just the only way I know to make a statement to people in charge who only see dollar signs. I guess the players are collateral damage, and that sucks, but if someone has a better suggestion I'm all ears.

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Right now, we have an inept coach

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yes, always has been

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AD who doesn't care,

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I can't agree with this until after he doesn't fire Grant this year. Even then he may still care but just not be qualified or misguided. Not many ADs in the country would have done any differently than Battle did after the previous season.

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in what other way can a fanbase show that it isn't satisfied?

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Making contact is a start and can't really hurt anything. In reality, there are a few that have the ADs ear. They are the ones that can make things happen. The casual fan has no say in the matter really.

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Clearly the answer isn't to buy more season tickets,

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Buying season tickets or single tix, filling up Coleman is the absolute answer to becoming a great program. It's all part of "the process", that some may be familiar with.

What selling out Coleman does:
- energizes the players, which results in more wins.
- Helps recruiting
- Shows the AD/players/prospects that Bama fans do care about basketball.


I've already noted Saban and Wimp, but every great coached has told anyone who would listen how important butts in the seats are. Not sure why so many people overlook the "responsibility" of the fan to help a program when all the great minds in their respective sports state the importance.

If Coleman sold out every game this year, but miraculously had the same bad results or even worse. Does that mean the few people with influence would be happy with Grant, simply because the place is packed, no. They want a winning team and great coach, they don't donate etc. based on attendance.

Shula still played for a full house, a change was still made. Wins matter, not attendance.

Boba Fide

Excellent post. Not showing up to me just means we don't care. It is frustrating to watch those early December games on tv and empty seats are everywhere

What Auburn and Pearl are doing this week does not have a direct effect on what happens in Tuscaloosa, but I can assure you if Auburn was any good over the past decade or so, Bama sure would have stepped it up, too.

Bama needs the change and it must be done now.

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Saying players who don't win don't deserve support is ignorant and childish. They are playing their best that they are taught. Sure it is frustrating to see the wY we lose some games but taking it out on the teams at UA is not the answer IMO

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Can agree to disagree. You arent entitled to fan support just because you took a scholarship to play a sport at Alabama. Yall keep bringing up Wimp and Saban....THEY WERE WINNNERS. People didnt support the basketball program because Wimp told them to. They did it because Wimp's teams won.

Im not saying you shouldnt go to to basketball games and cheer for the team. Im saying that the sheer fact that the players wear a jersey that says Bama on it doesnt mean they have earned any fan support.

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Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. Players that dont win dont deserve anything. Empty arenas mean absolutely nothing when the fanbase has proven they will support a winner.

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I don't care win or lose, but you have got to try. Keeping AG is just not trying in my eyes.

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There is plenty of unofficial word, of course, and you can choose any version of that you want. My observation on Friday night was that UA director of athletics Bill Battle was getting plenty of 11th-hour pressure from people seeking to make their position on the UA basketball program known. That was still the case Saturday and shows no sign of relenting.

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I've heard that too. Got a friend, who's father is a respected doctor, and he said this; Bill Battle and the interim president do not want to fire him, but they are getting tons of pressure from wealthy boosters from Birmingham to give him the boot.

We'll know who wins soon enough I guess.

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The SEC kind of fricked us over with our home schedule this year. The only home game on a Saturday that started before 6PM was against Kentucky.

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Is this the revised version "Well, attendance is low on Wednesday because of church,"?

Average length of a game is two hours. If you wanted to go, you could watch the game an be back in time for the 9:00. 9:30, 10:00 and 10:30 evening news programs.