2018-2019 Alabama Athletics Results

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2012 - #23 Overall, #6 SEC

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How the frick did this happen?

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Was wondering the same - I assume every sport that didnt win a title was a disaster

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Must've been

Basketball wasn't bad, we finished 3rd in the SEC

Baseball was, well it was baseball, under .500

Yea, unfortunately gymnastics isn't even a big fall. Just another in the slow but steady Tennessee Lady Vol-esque decline of a once elite program.

Gotta wait for Duckworth to have that one bad year before letting her go. But who do you hire?

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Will the women's bball team EVER be consistently decent again?

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At this point I'm really starting to have doubts.

Curry put solid teams on the floor at Purdue (great teams there) and Texas Tech (not as good, but always NIT/NCAAT level). Our hope has to be that 2019 was just a fluke of a year and they get back to the trajectory they were on, but man I don't know.

To her credit, this is clearly by far the best shape the program has been in since 2002, before Moody's last 2-3 years. That's not saying a whole lot, but it's saying something especially if we have to fire her and start fresh again.

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2012 - #23 Overall, #6 SEC

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This still amazes me that we finished that low, considering we won 4 national titles that year (Football, Gymnastics, Softball, Women's Golf). I guess our other programs were just too low...

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We dump money into gym

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This is a huge deal. A couple years ago LSU dumped millions into their gymnastics program. LSU Gymnastics has been an afterthought in the SEC under DD Breaux for 30 years (her last SEC title) and their investment resulted in the hiring of assistant Jay Clark and the building of a lavish, state of the art gymnastics facility, training gym, locker room, athlete lounge, etc.

Alabama Gymnastics hasn't had a major renovation since 1996. Their locker room digs are a windowless box in the bottom of the Coliseum. We began losing girls on the recruiting trail that we'd never lose to LSU, even before Patterson even left. This is a non-revenue arms race and we're losing. The biggest thing Byrne can do,outside of hiring Rhonda Faehn, is upgrade our gymnastics facilities out of the 90s.

I sincerely hope that it's part of the Coliseum upgrade, and it's one of the reason I hate that the stadium work is coming first. I'm sorry but football isn't exactly in need of dire attention the way our gymnastic and basketball programs are.



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Nah, I don't think Football will be in dire need of attention if a giant present to themselves is held off for one (honestly even less than that) year that it will take to bring the Coliseum into the 21st century for Coach Oats whoever is trying to bring gymnastics and W Ball up to snuff.

Hell, we'll probably be able to throw a few more football updates into the major plan by then too.



I honestly wish they would just do both, but yearly budgets and whatever.

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This. Nothing about phase 1 for football is a dire need. They can wait an extra year or two for it.

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So we are now of the football philosophy that we need to wait for the state to be in dire need before we address it?

That sounds terrible to me. To stay on top you have to stay proactive and maintain the to standard. Other schools are constantly upgrading their football, it's way more competitive than other sports.

The fact of the money is, it comes from and for football, not basketball or other sports. And since football generates it, the moment it's in "dire need" will be the moment none of it has the funds.

Have you seen what A&M has planned and has been working on?

All I see are spoiled football fans who now thinks it came easy. It's funny, it's almost the same kind of complacency Saban has to deal with among players. Eh, no need to study the playbook that little extra, it's not in dire need, we'll still win that game easily.