I agree with you about saying that Grant's certainly not an awful coach. I also agree that he could have won more with better players.

He actually had a pretty strong team when Green, Mitchell, Hillman etc were there even if those weren't his recruits and there was some depth to run his pressing defense.

I would also love to see him get another chance and succeed. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

However, I do think that potential success may come due to him growing as a head coach by addressing the things he could have done better at Alabama.

1) getting his players better organized on offense, looking confident and actually enjoying what they're doing

2) simply recruiting enough players to make a difference.

This last part may well be his reluctance to "get his hands" dirty in the recruiting meat market.

However, like I said earlier, all the previous Alabama coaches before him managed to always have a couple of high caliber big men (all SEC, at least borderline NBA talent) on the roster from the 1970s until he took over.

Five years was long enough to at least bring in one player that contributed to the level of which 2 or 3 had been doing on the roster for the previous 30 years.

This post was edited on 2/11/16 at 5:06 pm