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Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:15 pm
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:15 pm
Is it time for Kristy Curry to part ways with the program? The women basketball team has been mediocrity. Too many top players from the state are going elsewhere and its the same thing every year. We need Madonna Thompson or Brittney Ezell, somebody familiar with the program that knows what it take to have success. Maybe Dominique Canty or Niesa Johnson. I really miss the Rick Moody days. I remember we had a chance to hire Dawn Staley before South Carolina and blew it. We need some excitement in the program. Should Curry go? Is it time? I think so!
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Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:18 pm to Adam Pruitt
I do not think that we should fire the woman who took this program from Kansas Football levels to competitive and finally to the 2nd round of the NCAAT immediately after she achieved the NCAAT, no.
She's gone 35-21 (16-16) the last 2 seasons in the toughest basketball league in the sport and just made the schools first NCAAT appearance in 20 years (and won a game in it).
If we don't stay at this NCAAT level the next couple of years? Sure.
She's gone 35-21 (16-16) the last 2 seasons in the toughest basketball league in the sport and just made the schools first NCAAT appearance in 20 years (and won a game in it).
If we don't stay at this NCAAT level the next couple of years? Sure.
This post was edited on 3/24/21 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:19 pm to Adam Pruitt
Wait what?
She has finally built it back after the incredible shite show Wendell Hudson left and you think she should be canned?
I don't get it
She has finally built it back after the incredible shite show Wendell Hudson left and you think she should be canned?
I don't get it
This post was edited on 3/24/21 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:21 pm to Adam Pruitt
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Madonna Thompson
Women's JuCo Basketball and Women's SEC Basketball are 2 entirely different things
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Brittney Ezell
She can't even win in the SoCon?
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Dominique Canty
Isn't a coach?
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Niesa Johnson
Also isn't a coach?
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I really miss the Rick Moody day
Moody had a nice run but his last 3 years Alabama went 39-46 (10-31).
Moody didn't make a single NCAA Tournament in his last 6 years as head coach. He went 28-56 in the SEC those last 6 seasons.
This post was edited on 3/24/21 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:24 pm to gumpinmizzou
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Wait what?
She has finally built it back after the incredible shite show Wendell Hudson left and you think she should be canned?
I don't get it
Yea I'm not convinced she is some sort of super coach who is going to win a national title, but to dump her after the clean up she has done with this program right as they finally get back to the NCAAT would be pretty damn cruel...and probably not looked at kindly by the coaching community you are trying to then hire from.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:26 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Dawn Staley wasn't a coach either smart guy.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:27 pm to Adam Pruitt
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Dawn Staley wasn't a coach either smart guy.
Neither was Wendell Hudson, and he took a collapsing building and burned it down with nuclear fire.
Also - Dawn Staley was a coach before she got hired at South Carolina. She coached at Temple for 8 years before she got an SEC job. She also never got out of the 2nd round in those 8 years.
Firing a coach who re-built your program from the ashes to be a competitive program in the SEC to go hire an ex player who has never coached before doesn't seem like a wise move. Unless we think the risk of heading back to 13-18 (2-14) and being the worst program in a major conference sounds appealing.
This post was edited on 3/24/21 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:28 pm to SummerOfGeorge
I mean, she takes us to our first tourney since 1999, but yeah, let's totally fire her. Just a terrible look.
Like you said, if we drop off again, I'm sure Byrne will take a look and possibly make a move, but now is not the time.
Like you said, if we drop off again, I'm sure Byrne will take a look and possibly make a move, but now is not the time.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:30 pm to SummerOfGeorge
35-21 the last two years with most of those wins coming from non conference. She's been here long enough to have more success than that or maybe you're to young to remember the success they had under Rick Moody. I'm not talking to children.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:33 pm to gumpinmizzou
She's been here long enough to have taking us to a championship. If not for non conference wins in the past years her record would awful. She beats the mid majors sometime plus she don't make in state talent a priority. She looks for juco talent and transfers.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:35 pm to Adam Pruitt
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35-21 the last two years with most of those wins coming from non conference
We went 8-8 in the SEC both of the last 2 seasons.
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She's been here long enough to have more success than that or maybe you're to young to remember the success they had under Rick Moody.
(a) She inherited the worst program in high major women's college basketball. The worst. Alabama women's basketball was equivalent to Kansas Football when Curry arrived. That's not hyperbole.
(b) We now have 2 straight seasons of NCAAT or near-NCAAT teams. We've had non-losing records in conference play for 2 straight seasons. We just finished a season where we made it to the round of 32.
(c) Ricky Moody's good Alabama teams were 20+ years ago. This NCAA Tournament was our first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1999. Women's college basketball and the SEC are WAY more competitive than they were in 1999. It's hard to stay good in the SEC - just ask Mississippi State.
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I'm not talking to children.
I'm a 35 year old man with 3 children of my own, so no, you aren't talking to children.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:35 pm to Adam Pruitt
In his career Moody went to 8 tournaments. Curry is coaching in her 10th.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:36 pm to Adam Pruitt
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She's been here long enough to have taking us to a championship.
Well damn you would have fired Rick Moody too, then? Because he never won any championship. He only finished better than 4th in the SEC 3 times in 16 seasons.
Rick Moody went 96-101 in the SEC. He had a losing record in the SEC for his career.
This post was edited on 3/24/21 at 1:37 pm
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:40 pm to Adam Pruitt
First tourney appearance in the y2ks, and this guy wants them fired 
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:43 pm to gumpinmizzou
She's leaving a shite show also. She can't recruit and first off the program was at a downward spiral in Coach Moody's last years. Every we go on a win streak with non conference foes then in the SEC reality hits. If you don't know anything about basketball you'd probably ask Mr. Byrne's to give her a raise. She's been here since the Grant era. She is not the one that is gonna turn this program around. Kudos to the players but Curry has been here long enough.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:44 pm to Adam Pruitt
On average, how much of your chaw would you say you spray on the people sitting around you in the North endzone upper deck while you scream at the OC to run the ball on 2nd and 9?
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:45 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Listen, I'm all for wanting to win national championships in everything that we do. And I'm not convinced Curry can do that.
However, I also realize what Curry took over, the job she has done to clean it all up, and that having 2 straight very competitive and solid SEC teams and making the NCAAT is an accomplishment that at the very least should guarantee an opportunity to build on.
Here is what Alabama Women's Basketball did for the 20 years from 1999 to 2019.
- Overall Record: 305-339 (47.4%)
- SEC Record: 83-231 (26.4%)
- 0 NCAA Tournaments in 20 seasons
- 1 NIT in 20 seasons
- 6 winning seasons in 20 seasons
- 1 winning SEC season in 20 seasons
Here is what Alabama basketball has done for 2020 and 2021
- Overall Record: 34-22 (60.7%)
- SEC Record: 16-16 (50.0%)
- 1 NCAA Tournament in 2 seasons*
- 1 NIT in 2 season*
- 2 winning seasons in 2 seasons
- 0 losing SEC seasons in 2 seasons
So, in conclusion, no. I am not firing that person.
However, I also realize what Curry took over, the job she has done to clean it all up, and that having 2 straight very competitive and solid SEC teams and making the NCAAT is an accomplishment that at the very least should guarantee an opportunity to build on.
Here is what Alabama Women's Basketball did for the 20 years from 1999 to 2019.
- Overall Record: 305-339 (47.4%)
- SEC Record: 83-231 (26.4%)
- 0 NCAA Tournaments in 20 seasons
- 1 NIT in 20 seasons
- 6 winning seasons in 20 seasons
- 1 winning SEC season in 20 seasons
Here is what Alabama basketball has done for 2020 and 2021
- Overall Record: 34-22 (60.7%)
- SEC Record: 16-16 (50.0%)
- 1 NCAA Tournament in 2 seasons*
- 1 NIT in 2 season*
- 2 winning seasons in 2 seasons
- 0 losing SEC seasons in 2 seasons
So, in conclusion, no. I am not firing that person.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:46 pm to Adam Pruitt
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Every we go on a win streak with non conference foes then in the SEC reality hits
We've gone 8-8 in the SEC the last 2 seasons. What are you talking about?
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If you don't know anything about basketball you'd probably ask Mr. Byrne's to give her a raise. She's been here since the Grant era. She is not the one that is gonna turn this program around. Kudos to the players but Curry has been here long enough.
Ok, well, I'll keep having my uneducated basketball opinions I guess.
And no, I don't want to give her a raise or an extension. I also don't think she should be fired for the 100 reasons I've laid out.
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Should Curry go? Is it time?
If you don't like to hear opposing opinions then don't ask the damn question.
This post was edited on 3/24/21 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:47 pm to gumpinmizzou
Were talking about Alabama here not her previous stops and what she did in kindergarten.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 1:49 pm to Adam Pruitt
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She is not the one that is gonna turn this program around.
How exactly is making the tournament for the first time since 1999, and coaching a likely first round WNBA pick in Jasmine Walker, not turning the program around?
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