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re: Why does the Alabama basketball team feature so few native Alabamians?
Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:03 pm to SidewalkTiger
Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:03 pm to SidewalkTiger
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I don't really follow college basketball.
ETA I also wasn't referring to recruiting or anything, just found 4/19 curious. If anything, one would think that you'd get more in state walkons than out of state, just so a local kid could say he played on his favorite team.
So why the fascination with Alabama?
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Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:05 pm to BamaGradinTn
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So why the fascination with Alabama?
Y'all are a 2 seed with a legit shot at the Final Four this year?
Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:06 pm to BamaGradinTn
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So why the fascination with Alabama?
If one were to read the OP, they'd realize I had looked at various rosters.
I don't really get into college basketball but was attempting to watch some of the SEC tournament games, in doing so, I was trying to figure out who played for who.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:12 pm to SidewalkTiger
Wouldn’t it make more sense to look at maybe the conference as a whole? I would wager that most rosters are regionally, nationally diverse. Especially in this day and age. Transfer portal and all.
It’s like football. Alabama won a national title in 1992 with something like 17 of 22 starters from the state of Alabama. It was down to like 12 of 22 in the 2009 season. And more like 5 of 22 in 2020. It’s just so much easier in 2021 to fill out a roster based on needs and not just proximity.
It’s like football. Alabama won a national title in 1992 with something like 17 of 22 starters from the state of Alabama. It was down to like 12 of 22 in the 2009 season. And more like 5 of 22 in 2020. It’s just so much easier in 2021 to fill out a roster based on needs and not just proximity.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:15 pm to SidewalkTiger
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If one were to read the OP, they'd realize I had looked at various rosters.
You listed two other teams besides Alabama. But like I said above, I’d likely wager most rosters are diverse regionally, nationally. Unless you’re from a larger state like Texas, California, or Florida. Or maybe some of the programs in the northeast/Carolinas where basketball is king.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:17 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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You listed two other teams besides Alabama
I was just looking at teams that survived the first round. I didn't watch any of the first round games.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:29 pm to BamaGradinTn
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BamaGradinTn
You are responding to a very lonely person in Sidewalk. He needs and craves attention hence the nonstop obtuseness
Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:32 pm to SidewalkTiger
UK has very few players from Kentucky on their basketball team and haven't the past several years
Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:32 pm to SidewalkTiger
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If one were to read the OP, they'd realize I had looked at various rosters.
I don't really get into college basketball but was attempting to watch some of the SEC tournament games, in doing so, I was trying to figure out who played for who.
Maybe you were trying to start a serious thread who knows. Starting a thread I'm not trolling or serious question.
Is not a good ice breaker.... Bama posters are willing to discuss a broad spectrum of basketball topics.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:32 pm to SidewalkTiger
We are a nationwide brand mofo.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:36 pm to Leto II
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Yet my point stands. Alabama is not traditionally not a strong state for high school basketball.
But your point is wrong. Alabama is not traditionally a strong state for college talent. But the high schools have produced their share of talent. It just often goes out of state to either UK, or an acc team, like FSU.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:45 pm to SidewalkTiger
non-typical melt
Posted on 3/23/21 at 12:53 pm to SidewalkTiger
The best players from these southern states always go OOS. Same for Louisiana, Mississippi, etc
Posted on 3/23/21 at 1:01 pm to SidewalkTiger
quote:Oats developed ties to Canada while at Buffalo.
Hell, 3/19 Alabama players come from foreign countries.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 1:15 pm to Leto II
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Alabama isn't really a basketball statequote:
There you go...
Alabama has historically produced a great deal of talent per capita, but it struggles keeping elite talent in state and has a lot of all around competition with the state and in the region for that talent.
Louisiana roughly has the same # of instate players, but it seems as if that would be higher given they have had more recent BB success and they are the only major instate school.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 1:23 pm to SidewalkTiger
You sure post a lot in Bama basketball threads to claim to be a fan of neither.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 2:03 pm to bama1959
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We are a nationwide brand mofo.
Hell, we’ve gone international in both football and basketball.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 2:04 pm to SidewalkTiger
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Posted on 3/23/21 at 2:05 pm to SidewalkTiger
Because frick you. That’s why
Posted on 3/23/21 at 2:22 pm to SidewalkTiger
Alabama produces NBA players at an acceptable rate given its population and the fact that, like everywhere else in the South, football is king. The University of Alabama has done a very poor job of fencing off the state from other schools in the region over the last decade or so.
Additionally, Alabama seems to take a more regional/national approach to recruiting historically speaking in all sports and that probably explains why a small state like Alabama can have two very high quality P5 athletics programs.
Edit: I'd also note that this has been changing since Avery Johnson pulled Alabama's recruiting program out of the ditch Anthony Grant left it in upon termination. Avery was not a good all-round coach but he's got a fantastic eye for talent. Hell, he recruited two of the P5's conferences PotY to Alabama but one left due to home sickness or failure to adapt in some way.
Additionally, Alabama seems to take a more regional/national approach to recruiting historically speaking in all sports and that probably explains why a small state like Alabama can have two very high quality P5 athletics programs.
Edit: I'd also note that this has been changing since Avery Johnson pulled Alabama's recruiting program out of the ditch Anthony Grant left it in upon termination. Avery was not a good all-round coach but he's got a fantastic eye for talent. Hell, he recruited two of the P5's conferences PotY to Alabama but one left due to home sickness or failure to adapt in some way.
This post was edited on 3/23/21 at 2:34 pm
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