re: Men's Basketball breaks my heart again

Unlike Pete Golding, Nate Oats has this team playing to their talent level. What you see, you get. And we didn't drop off the face of the earth in our usual February swoon. We've been up and down and "swooning" since game one. This is been who we are all-season Bama folks. For my money, a guy like Donta Hall in the middle would have been enough to tip the scale of middle-tier teams a few more times. Enough to get to the big dance.

Everyone should take a quick look around the SEC as a basketball league. Great coaches everywhere you turn, including "Curly," of ATM. He has been good everywhere he's gone. Yet he too has got to get better recruits to get out of their Mid-tier "swoon."

Tell you something else, it's going to make recruiting very hard for Oats in the SEC areas, with so many great coaches at Mississippi schools and around the league. LSU, Auburn, Tennessee, they are staring at the top 10 next season. Georgia has got a great coach and hell-of-a freshmen recruiting class. Florida is still getting bluebloods down there. What White can do with them is another story. This isn't the SEC that Grant and Avery inherited.

Bama alert: Nate Oats will get us to dangerous team staus, sooner than later.