Even if Bama wins the basketball title... I wonder if they'd rather have a football title and a .500 season in basketball like UGA did or have a non-playoff football season and win a basketball title.

From a UGA perspective, we'd take the football title and irrelevance in other sports if that was the choice. I think most other teams would too. Not sure about Bama as they have a lot of football titles... maybe that makes basketball more appealing for them.

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Posted by SummerOfGeorge

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Posted on 3/20/23 at 12:09 pm to DawginSC

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Even if Bama wins the basketball title... I wonder if they'd rather have a football title and a .500 season in basketball like UGA did or have a non-playoff football season and win a basketball title.

I'd literally trade a Saban era football national title for a basketball one no questions asked. So yea, I'd be cool with going 11-2 and finishing in the Top 5 and winning a basketball national title.

But Alabama has had a legitimate basketball fanbase for 50 years (since CM showed up). It isn't Arkansas or Kentucky, but there are a ton of Alabama people who LOVE Alabama basketball. We have had very good to great crowds consistently for decades - in a terrible arena with very average to slightly above average teams. It does not take much for Alabama basketball fans to buy into the program (see crowds during Grant and Avery's tenures).

The notion that Alabama fans don't care at all about basketball primarily comes from the massive sidewalk fanbase who, for the most part, only cares about Alabama football. Compared to most of the SEC we have a large basketball fanbase, and have for a really long time.

This post was edited on 3/20/23 at 12:15 pm

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