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re: Regarding the whole Bruce Pearl/Nate Oats comparison
Posted on 5/2/24 at 9:00 am to BamaBravesPackers
Posted on 5/2/24 at 9:00 am to BamaBravesPackers
Goddamn BamaBraves getting absolutely dragged in this thread by AUUSCgrad.
Lots of points being intentionally ignored:
Oats under performing last year despite the easy path.
Oats having incredibly easy paths in the tournament this year, last year, and COVID year.
Pearl is the driving reason Avery was fired and Oats was hired.
Oats Covid year success where there were no true road games and players were opting out or being held out left and right.
Bruce’s 2019-2020 team was playing its best ball going into March and gearing up to make a run in the SEC tourney and big dance before the postseason was canceled.
But keep hammering the 5-6 year semantics like it’s such a super serious point.
Lots of points being intentionally ignored:
Oats under performing last year despite the easy path.
Oats having incredibly easy paths in the tournament this year, last year, and COVID year.
Pearl is the driving reason Avery was fired and Oats was hired.
Oats Covid year success where there were no true road games and players were opting out or being held out left and right.
Bruce’s 2019-2020 team was playing its best ball going into March and gearing up to make a run in the SEC tourney and big dance before the postseason was canceled.
But keep hammering the 5-6 year semantics like it’s such a super serious point.
This post was edited on 5/2/24 at 9:03 am
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Posted on 5/2/24 at 9:37 am to au4you
Great points. As I have said earlier, I think many UAT fans are bandwagon basketball fans and literally have only been watching the past 3-4 years. I have actually found in general many SEC fans equate basketball and football success as the same, when in reality, they’re completely different in terms of success. Too many variables come into play when it comes to basketball. The best examples are ironically Auburn and UAT’s run to the final 4, moreso UAT. Auburn was struggling at the end of the year until they won their last 4 SEC games I believe and then won the SEC tournament. Got hot at the right time. I remember where I was thinking Auburn might miss the tournament altogether. Then UAT this year had lost 4 of their last 6 games, all by double digits, lost in their first game in SEC tournament but then got the most favorable matchups in the NCAA tournament and made it to the final four.
My point is that that is basketball in a nutshell. You can have a mediocre regular season but then get hot for 4-5 games and be in the final 4 and then you call it a successful season. Then you can be ranked in the top 15 the whole year, win your conference tournament and lose the first round and people will say it was a bad year. That’s not how basketball success works. Auburn didn’t do well in the postseason, but doesn’t mean their season was bad. And vice versa, just because you made the final four doesn’t mean you had a great season, like UAT. They still had double digit losses and got blown out in most of their losses. That’s why when I read these posts about trying to compare Auburn and UAT basketball, I have to just laugh at the ignorance of what basketball success really is.
My point is that that is basketball in a nutshell. You can have a mediocre regular season but then get hot for 4-5 games and be in the final 4 and then you call it a successful season. Then you can be ranked in the top 15 the whole year, win your conference tournament and lose the first round and people will say it was a bad year. That’s not how basketball success works. Auburn didn’t do well in the postseason, but doesn’t mean their season was bad. And vice versa, just because you made the final four doesn’t mean you had a great season, like UAT. They still had double digit losses and got blown out in most of their losses. That’s why when I read these posts about trying to compare Auburn and UAT basketball, I have to just laugh at the ignorance of what basketball success really is.
Posted on 5/2/24 at 5:27 pm to au4you
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Goddamn BamaBraves getting absolutely dragged in this thread by AUUSCgrad. Lots of points being intentionally ignored: Oats under performing last year despite the easy path. Oats having incredibly easy paths in the tournament this year, last year, and COVID year. Pearl is the driving reason Avery was fired and Oats was hired. Oats Covid year success where there were no true road games and players were opting out or being held out left and right. Bruce’s 2019-2020 team was playing its best ball going into March and gearing up to make a run in the SEC tourney and big dance before the postseason was canceled. But keep hammering the 5-6 year semantics like it’s such a super serious point.
lol…that’s a whole lot of words to admit in your last statement that Oats has been a better coach than Bruce since he arrived at Bama. It pains you guys so much, you write paragraph after paragraph trying to make it not true, half of which is factually incorrect (btw, you guys probably don’t even recognize that you’ve literally argued that Bama is a materially better overall program than AU in trying to prop up Bruce.)
If you guys are so confident in Bruce as a coach, how about we do a 1 yr SECRant self ban on who has the most NCAAT success in the next 3 seasons between Oats and Bruce? It would give somebody a good rest from April 2027 to April 2028. If not, you should ask yourself why you’re spending page after page defending Bruce when you clearly don’t think he’s on par.
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