re: How does Alabama feel about Anthony Grant?

How many years does he get? He took us to the NCAA tournament last year. And I don't think done Perle understand exactly how far Gottfried had run this program into the dirt his last few seasons. Grant is doing just fine thus far. Yea, we need help on offense, but his teams are very good defensively and always play hard and fight like hell. We're also young, Steele is our only senior and we're starting three sophomores.

Hired the wrong vcu coach should have hired Shaka.

my point was that you can be successful with underclassman. At least our young bucks so plenty of PT last year and we are young in age but not young in experience

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Bama fans have to be honest here. If the SEC was even an average league this year, we would be in the bottom half. Our offense is stagnant and we have no low post presence. Grant yet to get a decent big man in four years.

Hell we wish he could develop a guy like Tony Mitchell

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You need to be honest with yourself, who do you think we can hire that's better?

Bama fans also need to realize that this Bball program has ALWAYS thrived on in-state talent which has been extremely thin outside of the 2011 class in Grant's tenure. As far as recruiting goes he just finished year 3 with last year's class, so he hasn't found a decent big man in 3 years. In those 3 years the state of Alabama has yet to produce one high-major quality post player. Grant may have not done too great with the 2012 class, but Grant has recruited better out-of-state than any coach I can remember. We have been and currently are high on a lot of top guys' lists from as far west as Texas too as far north as New Jersey and New York. It is only a matter of time before we start landing a few of them, and with the 2014 in-state class looking pretty solid we might be back on track as far as in-state talent goes as well. The main problem I have with him recruiting wise is his roster mismanagement with signing so many guards in 2011 that we were in need of 2 posts with only 1 guaranteed open scholarship in the 2012 class.

As for the Tony Mitchell comment, he got massively better through his career here, even though he was a fricking head case with a pre-madonna syndrome. So I fail to see your point with mentioning him.

I agree with a lot of that. His big man recruiting has been disastrous though.

It's strange, he seemed to love Chris Hines which would make you think he might go after a similar type player, whether in JUCO or not.

Of the big men he's signed none have been skilled and none have been athletic. You would think we'd at least sign one guy who fits one of those bills.

This would be a really good team if we still had Jamychal (as much as we, myself included, bitched about him). We finally have a talented perimeter, just no big man (although Gueye and Jacobs have made some strides).

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As for the Tony Mitchell comment, he got massively better through his career here, even though he was a fricking head case with a pre-madonna syndrome. So I fail to see your point with mentioning him.

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Just mentioning he was a polarizing player, but Grant has yet to develop a player of his caliber. Releford has gotten slightly better, but it is up and down with him as a pg.

Of course we all know moving forward it will be about how Lacey continues to develop and whether or not he finds a serviceable big man.

Grant walked into a shite storm. I think he is still the right guy. Just has had some unfortunate breaks.

First year, he had to implement his coaching philosophy. Not a ton of talent.

Second year, no offensive talent + won the west. NIT Runner Up

Third year, unfortunate turn of events. Had the talent. Immature fricks ruined the team. Still made it to 2nd round of NCAA tourney.

This year, lack of big men doomed the tide.


So honestly, the only thing he has done wrong is recruiting/develop big men. Doesn't help that injuries have taken place this year, as well. I think Nick Jacobs would be much better if 100%

Last year the post play was awesome with Green. The 3pt shooting was horrible. Now the perimeter players are good and Bama has the worst big men in the SEC. The team is just a decent big man away from being a top 25 team with sweet 16 aspirations.

He ain't no Pearl