re: Possible coaching candidates

What is your source or reasoning? You have 11 posts and most of them are claiming Crean to Bama. Not saying you're wrong just curious. Can't blame me for not taking what you say as fact.

The rumor has been out there for weeks, even before Grant was fired. I thought it was just some crazy rumor floating around. Then you hear Crean is on the hot seat at IU and they are ready to fire him but he gets a gift from the committee in the form of a ticket to The Dance so they can't let him go just yet. Then Grant gets canned when, by all indications, he was getting another year. Meanwhile, there's the incident with Crean being heckled at his kid's game and his radio show last night where he practically said goodbye on the air. I think Crean is pushing for the job hard from the other side because he wants out of Bloomongton at all costs and the Bama job is probably the best out there from a dollar standpoint at the moment. And the cherry on top of the sundae? Tom Crean is represented by CAA Sports, which happens to be the firm that employs Jimmy Sexton. With Sexton's clout in Tuscaloosa, you don't think he could make a call to Battle to solve his problem of needing a basketball coach?

This is not my favorite candidate by far but all the pieces of the puzzle fit together nicely. It will be spun as Bama poaching IU's basketball coach, what a coup! When in reality, it's Crean getting the hell out of Dodge while he can and Bama being a very convenient and lucrative landing spot. I would go in a different direction but I hope that if I'm right, he can be successful at Bama. We need him to be.

As far as Prohm goes, I'm starting to get a little irritated at continually hearing his name bandied about for this job as some slam dunk guy. That was Grant's description too and how'd that work out for us? Just what exactly has Steve Prohm done in his oh so brief career? Well, he has ties to Bama and God knows we are addicted to the good ole boy method like a crackhead. And he's had a good record at Murray State. Well he should have as they are the 800 LB gorilla in that league. And he has one tourney appearance in 4 years. Yep, and three upset losses in the OVC tourney to knock him out of the tourney the other three years. And the one appearance was in his first year...with the previous coach's roster. All that adds up to me to a disaster in the making if we hire this guy. At a time when we can ill afford to mess this up. He should be on the bottom of the list in the "if desperate, call" category, not at the top.