re: Who should Alabama go after when Grant gets fired

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Gottfried signed tons of elite players and elite classes. More of them were underdeveloped, but even he coached quite a few solid NBA players

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Yeah, Gottfried started off recruiting with a vengeance. I suppose that he did even still have Green and Mitchell when he was fired.

I always considered recruiting to be Gottfried's strong point... by a long shot.

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Grant's class that are now seniors were a Top 5 class. Lacey, Cooper and Randolph were all Top 75 guys. Lacey and Cooper were top 40 guys. We just haven't developed them.

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I think the failure, for whatever reason, to have a legitimate big man for his entire tenure is what will doom Grant. Other than that he's seemingly had similar talent to the Alabama teams in the past that at least made the NCAAs consistently.



I don't think Grant's a great coach but probably "good enough" if he could have recruited only 1 or 2 actual power forward types during the entire 5 years. Though maybe "development" has been more the issue in this regard.




Alabama has legitimately been one strong rebounding PF (not All-SEC, just solid) away from probably being a Top 20 team this season but that seems to have been pretty much the same story for his entire tenure.