Womens team didn’t get a ticket to The Dance

I don’t see us firing her after how we ended the season and I assume going to the WNIT again.

Is there anyone who would be remotely interested in this job? One that is for sure better than Curry? We are without question a bottom-tier program- landing Curry in the first place was something of a miracle

Alabama Women's Basketball Selected for 2022 WNIT (SI)

The Crimson Tide will be participating in the tournament for the first time since 2018.

The date, time and opponent for Alabama will be announced on Monday. As of the writing of this story, the full field of teams has been announced, but no matchups have been set.

1- Football

2- Men's Basketball

3- Women's Gymnastics

4- Women's Softball

5- Men's Baseball

6- Women's Basketball

Curry has steadily but slowly improved every year. This year being the first step backward. Covid and injuries early hurt the team and they lost a few games they should have won.

They will be back in the tourney next year. Solid group returning.

Curry isn’t winning a title but the lack of fan support won’t allow the admin spend big bucks to get a proven winner.

And to think Dawn Staley openly campaigned for the job before landing at USC. What could’ve been.

Curry got the team back in the tournament for the first time in 20 years last season.

She's not an amazing coach, but for a program of our caliber she's good. It would be hard to get an upgrade, we'd have to swing on high upside which means the most likely outcome is it fails.

Let her keep rolling. Her big picture trajectory with the program is moving in the positive direction.

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why not just fire her and hire someone at half or less of her salary and call it a day for womens bball.

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Easy to say that from the comfort of your recliner. Most people don't care about women's athletics... I get it. How many people actually like softball and gymnastics? Or do we just like that they wear the script A and win so we can brag about it? If not many people care, why should the University care? Spend the money elsewhere on sports like Football or Baseball.

The reality is that the University has to show some degree of care and support for women's athletics. It's important for many reasons: including legal ones, like Title IX. Not showing adequate or comparable support for women's athletics can open up the University to a lot of liability (for reference, I practice law in an area that touches upon a lot of this, I have been engaged in litigation with women's athletics programs at universities). It's also important for PR and press: nobody wants their school to be labeled sexist or discriminatory in the state news paper. You also have to worry about donations. While you may not think about it, most university's have at least a few large donors who take on more obscure athletics programs, like women's basketball, as their passion project. Perhaps very wealthy women alumni with an interest in promoting women's empowerment and similar issues, a man with daughters who love basketball and thinks about these things, or just a B-tier donor who can't have the longest swinging stick in the football world but can for a sport like women's basketball.

There are a lot of factors that prevent the university from just throwing in the towel. The only justifiable way to fire Curry at this point would be to go in the opposite direction. Double down on women's basketball, go poach a high level coach, and throw a bunch of money into the program. Similar to what LSU did.

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Justin Thomas. He's more popular than any of our basketball alumni and probably only exceeded by a few of our football stars.

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I hope Spree doesnt hear you say that...gonna get backhanded.

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How many people actually like softball and gymnastics?

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I don’t disagree with your sentiments about WBB - and especially agree with the notion that the only reason to make a change is if you’re going to double down on elevating the program.

Although not on the attendance scale of football (what is?), Bama fans have shown a tremendous amount of support for women’s athletics. Softball is home to the largest on-campus softball facility in the NCAA and has already sold out multiple games through the pre conference schedule this year. I believe all the SEC weekend games are also sold out. Gymnastics attendance has dipped in recent years but Bama lead the nation in attendance for many years, including Coleman Coliseum sellouts that were the largest ever crowd to watch a college gymnastics meet. The atmosphere for both of those can be incredibly exciting.

I think the fan support would be there for WBB if it wasn’t so torturous (at times) to watch. For long stretches of the season, it’s been just plain bad basketball. Hard to watch even on line. It was at rock bottom when she came, but I’m not sure Curry can elevate the program any higher than it currently is. But I do trust Greg Byrne to do what he thinks is best for the WBB program and for the athletes who wear the script A.