re: I am extremely proud of this Alabama basketball team.

True. Pearl can definitely recruit and coach them up and Auburn should be a legitimate NCAA tourney threat next year. The point being made though is that he'll be going into his 3rd season. Some of you are downplaying Johnson and giving him crap for not improving on the win total of Grant despite playing both a tougher non-conference schedule and an improved conference schedule and losing the top 3 scores from last year's team. By any objective standard, Johnson's first year at Alabama was much more successful than Pearl's first year at Auburn.