re: Alabama in top 3 sports

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If Bama had the NCAA tournament success of a program like Arkansas... or Florida... not a single bama fan would be talking about wins, or conference tournament titles, or any other metric. All evidence would be from your NCAA Tournament success.

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See, I just disagree with the overall premise of this. I think that most of us acknowledge that the ultimate goal is the tournament. It weighs more than anything else. However, I think that the other items still have some weight, especially when the tournament successes are roughly equal. Florida is a perfect example. Alabama leads Florida in most all non-NCAAT Final 4/NCAAT categories. I can't imagine any Alabama people telling you Alabama is better than Florida historically in basketball. The chasm between what Florida has done in the postseason and what Alabama has done is large and more than wipes out any regular season, historical leads we have.

However, I think that regular season success counts a fraction of postseason, and when you take all that into account we are somewhere in the middle with Tennessee.

Tier 1 is Kentucky
Tier 2 is Arkansas, Florida
Tier 3 is LSU, Missouri
Tier 4 is Alabama, Tennessee
Tier 5 is Vanderbilt, Mississippi State
Tier 6 is South Carolina, Ole Miss, Auburn, Georgia, Texas A&M