re: Alabama Basketball At A Cross Road

I never supported the Battle hiring from day 1 and still don't. It was a "good ol boy" "don't rock the boat" hire that handcuffed the department. Truly high end coaches and executives with many offers don't like to walk into a situation where the person who hired them and evaluates them will likely be gone in a couple years. Anyone older than 30 has probably been in a situation where a new boss rolls into your department and they start to distrust existing employees and begin hiring new ones who are loyal to them. It's an uneasy feeling.

If I'm a hot coaching name and I know there is a big rebuilding project ahead of me, I want to know that the guy who trusted and hired me in the first place is going to be along for the rebuild.

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I never supported the Battle hiring from day 1 and still don't. It was a "good ol boy" "don't rock the boat" hire that handcuffed the department. Truly high end coaches and executives with many offers don't like to walk into a situation where the person who hired them and evaluates them will likely be gone in a couple years. Anyone older than 30 has probably been in a situation where a new boss rolls into your department and they start to distrust existing employees and begin hiring new ones who are loyal to them. It's an uneasy feeling. If I'm a hot coaching name and I know there is a big rebuilding project ahead of me, I want to know that the guy who trusted and hired me in the first place is going to be along for the rebuild.

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This is what happens when one BOT Member controls everything that happens on campus. Most AU fans understand the problem. It will not change until he is gone for good.

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Gregg Marshall- "No" doesn't cost anything
Shaka Smart
Ben Howland
Archie Miller
Ben Jacobson
Michael White
Bobby Hurley

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Not a bad list. I personally don't think Howland would be a good fit. I said it in another thread but I would call Andy Kennedy to see if he is interested. He has to be getting tired of hearing about White.

There are 2 separate sets, the experienced and young camps

Old - Howland, Crean
New - White, Miller, Prohm

Personally, I would love to hire Crean. Howland gives me pause, but I wouldn't be totally opposed. Of the young guys I think Miller and White would work well, though that can be a crapshoot, and I want nothing to do with Prohm.

This measuring stick shite annoys me. I may be in the minority with this, but i consider the state of Alabama to be lucky to have two top tier programs in the same state. it's no doubt that Alabama has a greater history than Auburn in almost everything. At the same time we have a great amount of accomplishments in our on right and exceed a majority of programs in the country.

At this point who gives a flying hell who has a better basketball program overall? We have both sucked it up..pretty badly these last few years and its not acceptable to me. Auburn made a huge step in the right direction with the new facilities and hiring Bruce Pearl. It was quite nice being at a game this year and actually having a good time. its no doubt we will only get better..I hope Alabama makes a great hire and we make the basketball rivalry as fun as the football rivalry is year in year out.

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i consider the state of Alabama to be lucky to have two top tier programs in the same state

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I'll drink my morning joe to that, and not just for sports. As poor as our state is, having two institutions like alabama and auburn is a luxury. I wish that was what the rivalry was based on instead of bitterness and hatred. It's what keeps me out of most dick measuring arguments... Most.

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This measuring stick shite annoys me. I may be in the minority with this, but i consider the state of Alabama to be lucky to have two top tier programs in the same state. it's no doubt that Alabama has a greater history than Auburn in almost everything. At the same time we have a great amount of accomplishments in our on right and exceed a majority of programs in the country. At this point who gives a flying hell who has a better basketball program overall? We have both sucked it up..pretty badly these last few years and its not acceptable to me. Auburn made a huge step in the right direction with the new facilities and hiring Bruce Pearl. It was quite nice being at a game this year and actually having a good time. its no doubt we will only get better..I hope Alabama makes a great hire and we make the basketball rivalry as fun as the football rivalry is year in year out.

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Bama should give Auburn the ultimate frick you and go take Pearl from them




and this from page 2 is not accurate

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Besides UK, UT and Alabama have the most conference championships all time.

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LSU has 11
Bama and Tennessee have 8 each


if you are combining regular season and conference tourney (which i think he is) then

Bama has 14 and LSU and Tennessee both have 12




Auburn has 2, 3 if you combine regular season and tourney

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Go read the PEEGS Indiana hoops message boards about CTC. You want to trade ACAG for this guy??

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We understand the dynamic of a guy not winning enough for an elite program. We are Alabama, in case you forgot. However, we also realize Alabama basketball is not the same as Indiana or Kentucky. So, I take most of that with a grain of salt. If Crean comes to Alabama and goes 22-9 and gets an 8-9 seed in the NCAAs most years we will be pretty happy. If Crean does that at Indiana he is going to get fired. It just isn't the same thing. Crean won at Marquette with a bunch of different teams, not just the Wade team.

And yea, I would trade ACAG for that guy in a heartbeat. I realize everyone seems to have this romantic idea of whatever CAG was, but while he was a great dude he was a bad basketball coach who ran a bad basketball program that didn't produce jack crap.