re: Tony Barbee has been fired

Unless Charles becomes our coach

And make Chuck Person the assistant coach. Charles is the flash, Chuck is the brains. Bring back the best of the 80's.

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I remember when it was API, do you?

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Lulz...old fricker.

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Totally agree. We need an X's and O's guy who can spot overlooked players who fit his system. We aren't going to get any 4* and 5* players until we have multiple years of success.

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X's and O's is over-rated in basketball, most of the guys who are said to be x's and o's whizzes are exactly the type of coach Auburn doesn't need. They generally play slow methodical sets that require a high basketball IQ of their players. It is also important for them to be able to out muscle front courts.

Bobby Knight would be said to be a "bad" x's and o's coach because he ran an offense not sets. He focused on fundamentals which are more important than drawing up plays, as well as making good basketball decisions on the court. Running an offense allows players to react instead of think, the south is full of athletes who can play if allowed to be in a system that flows and allows them to "just play". Up north the players are not as athletic so they have had to learn to out think/ out smart their opponent to make up the physical disadvantages. Its a matter of race horses and plow horses, they have plow horses, we have race horses, don't ask one to do what the other is best at.

It won't happen, but Northwestern St's HC would be a great get for several SEC programs, yes he is older, but he could groom a replacement that if hired would add continuity to the program.

BTW: TO give a visual example of what I'm talking about as far as style of play needed for the SEC.

Turn on ESPN and watch Florida St. The players on their team was available to every SEC team, equal/better players are likely at these programs, but it is all in how you use them.

Take Tennessee, easily a 5+ seed lock if Martin wasn't trying to make race horses into plow horses as an example.

Maybe x's and o's was the wrong way to say it. My bbal IQ ain't high, but I love to watch them play when they are competitive. What you describe is Sonny Smith from the 80's. He had good in bounds plays ready to call in late game situations, but otherwise he let the players play in a general system, with him making the right substitutions to match up with the other team.

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Maybe x's and o's was the wrong way to say it. My bbal IQ ain't high, but I love to watch them play when they are competitive. What you describe is Sonny Smith from the 80's. He had good in bounds plays ready to call in late game situations, but otherwise he let the players play in a general system, with him making the right substitutions to match up with the other team

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The sets didn't become popular until here recently. Sets were usually used in BLOB plays or late game situations for a set shot in a close game. (designed to get an open 2 or 3 depending on the situation) Coaches who draw up sets are said to be X's and O's coaches, while coaches who coach offensive systems are said to be lacking in X's and O's. This isn't necessarily true as far as the stereo type.

You see the sets in the NBA more so along with a bastardized version of the beautiful Princeton offense. Teams that runs sets you have 2-3 guys standing around watching at any time, the play is usually only ran on one side of the court. If a team has great shooters or ISO players, it is OK to great to watch (why it works in the NBA), with the lack of shooters coming up, the amount of players leaving school early and not developing into good shooters while on campus, most of these teams end up playing a bad, boring style of basketball as a result, it is hurting college basketball as a whole, a deterioration of fundamentals and knowledge to play fundamentally sound basketball.

Honestly, you hear about the scouting of opponents and some of these coaches trying to make the game similar to football in preparing for an opponent and it is really a waste of time. You need to know who the teams scorers are, what they like to do offensively and defensively, but other than that it is just basketball, there isn't anything a coach can draw up or have his team run that you haven't seen before you reach the high school level as a player.

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He is a slimy snake that could sell any kid on coming to Stark-Vegas in his hey day and I'll still feel that way for all the kids he stole away from UAB and Bama whether AU even gets him or not.

He'd have AU relevant and easily competing in the SEC West inside of 3 years with his ridiculous connections in this state and nastiness against Grant and Haase on the trail.

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Standsbury only made 2 NCAA's in his last 7 years as State coach- and one of those was a team that won the SEC Tourney and had no chance outside of that.

I hope like hell ya'll hire him- his time has passed

I know it's weird.

I'm wondering if someone else got a hold of denton's password.