re: UA Basketball Recruiting

On Court results is the only thing that’s gonna help us land these top guys. I’ve got faith in Oats to fill out the rest of the roster with quality Juco players and Grad Transfers If worst case scenario happens.

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You have to understand none of these kids have seen Alabama basketball do shite. How long has it been since Gottfried’s lucky Elite Eight year? Those recruits were probably in diapers. We’ve got to show some improvement on the court for some of these guys to take us seriously.

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Avery was able to recruit though. Sexton was a five star. Petty was also five star I think. Petty was originally seen as a possible one and done guy by some folks.

Avery was a big name who played in the NBA, coached a team to the NBA Finals, obviously impressed recruits on visits, and probably demanded Coleman get upgraded. We probably should have kept him around another year or 2 just to keep pressure on the arena upgrades.

Then, we signed Oats, who won a few games at Buffalo. no one knows him. He’s probably just happy to be here at a big college, so he’s not rocking the boat at all about a new arena.

With that shytty of an arena, we’ll get one or two 5-star guys every 5 years or so, make the tourney 1-2 seasons every 5 years, & we’ll be sitting here 5 years from now excited about the next small college guy we’ve hired because he “likes to play fast” and “travels a lot to watch recruits”

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We probably should have kept him around another year or 2

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I think you’re the only dumbass who would’ve liked that.

Who do we have a realistic chance of signing this year.

We should have all known that offering every 5 star under the sun ws a longgggg shot.

I’ve never seen you be this negative. You stayed positive for nearly all of Johnson’s tenure but have waved the white flag before Oats coaches his first game

I don't want to do the I told you so thing again but this is why people shouldn't have been running around acting like we signed a Coach Cal class because we made some Top 10s. Because now everyone is acting like this is some huge disaster that we didn't get the kids.

Newsflash, we were never getting them. It's what me and Bryant said 2 months ago. We are the hot name with the fun scheme and the hard charging coach, but that does not matter in the end when you are battling Carolina and Kansas.

Its fine to be excited, but letting your own unreal expectations then make you negative about the state of things is just silly. There is zero to be upset or concerned about right now.

Damn it I knew there was someone else in there.

I'm really not trying to be all "see we were right", my bigger point is it's insane to act like things are falling apart because we.....didn't live up to self created insane expectations.

I don't care, honestly. The guy knows guys who fit his system. Until that proves false I'm not even going to pay attention to recruiting to be completely honest.

And kids are going to want to see a year of it in action at Alabama before they pull the trigger.