re: Possible coaching candidates

With Pearl next door going to need some serious brand name to recruit

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Many people on here were very much against him being hired. Maybe 2-3 more years of Grant has changed some attitudes

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I can't speak for others but just looking around college basketball and realizing the very low success rate of "hot" mid-major coaches with limited track records seems the reason people prefer someone like Howland.


Grant was almost unilaterally considered a home run hire at the time. When one rationally looks at his tenure at Alabama --all the extreme exaggerations of him being an "awful" or even "bad" coach aside-- he actually did better than a large percentage of hires with similar resumes.

It's just my two cents but I think it's influenced people to think more of coaches that have already proven they can win big over a longer period and not be as interested in coaches who have have taken over already solid mid-major programs and had a couple of good seasons.

Looking at Grant, and all around the country, it seems that keeping the ball rolling at a good mid major for a couple of seasons can be done by many "slightly above average" coaches and tells you little about how well they're going to be able to recruit at a program like Alabama.