re: Alabama Basketball At A Cross Road

Only thing I'm worried about and all Bama fans should be, is the jackass involved in making this crucial hire. This is the same idiot that had to be exposed to extreme pressure both financially and by the fanbase before he realized Grant had to go. I'm deathly afraid he is going to take the easy way out, the coward's way, and pick up the phone and place a call to either Mike Davis or Steve Prohm and give them the job and overpay them in the process. We can and should do much better, but I won't feel comfortable unless I know the hiring decision has been taken out of Battle's hands. The OP is right, this is a hire we cannot screw up or our basketball program takes a backseat both in state and in conference. If I were making the hire, here is the list I would call and in this order:

Gregg Marshall- "No" doesn't cost anything
Shaka Smart
Ben Howland
Archie Miller
Ben Jacobson
Michael White
Bobby Hurley

After I had exhausted this list, then and only then, would I call either Prohm, Davis, or hell, Mike Anderson while we're desperate.

I just wish some news would leak from somewhere indicating where we are trying to go with this search as I don't trust the searcher.