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re: Why is Alabama so bad at basketball?
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:09 pm to CapstoneGrad06
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:09 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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What am I missing?
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While the number 20 will remain in circulation
We retired the jersey, but we haven't retired the number.
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Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:14 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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That doesn't exist anymore either
Explain.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:18 pm to AU4real35
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Explain
We spent $8M to buyout a coach whose previous 2 seasons had been a Round of 32 NCAAT appearance (first in 6 years) and a 18 win NIT season.
An administration that doesn't care about a sport doesn't spend $8M to fire a guy who averaged winning 19 games a year. Add to that our AD is a self-noted basketball guy who spent 3 years at Kentucky and 7 years at Arizona. We spend tons of money on recruiting (top 1/3 of the SEC).
We spend money and make decisions like an administration that cares about the sport. It's just up to the guy there now to win.
This post was edited on 2/17/20 at 2:22 pm
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:21 pm to thatthang
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Sure, why not? And I know the above makes it all the more frustrating for you that Bama is the 3rd winnigest program in the SEC. Imagine what we would do if we cared?!?
Well that’s great and everything, the trajectory of your team is downward. If you cared, you might have actually made it to a final four game or past the sweet sixteen in the last 15 years.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:22 pm to AU4real35
quote:No it's not. At worst, we've plateaued as a perennial bubble team and have been for the last 12-13 years.
the trajectory of your team is downward.
This post was edited on 2/17/20 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:22 pm to SummerOfGeorge
I can smell the fear. Oats doing an amazing job coaching up a young team, with lots of injuries. Folks are really gonna lose their sh!t when Bama wins 5-6 more games and gets into the Big Dance in Oats 1st season. 
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:24 pm to AU4real35
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Well that’s great and everything, the trajectory of your team is downward.
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If you cared, you might have actually made it to a final four game or past the sweet sixteen in the last 15 years.
Ah, sorry, I didn't realize this was a troll thing. My bad.
This post was edited on 2/17/20 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:25 pm to AU4real35
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AU4real35
As if Auburn fricking cared before lucking into Pearl being too hot for any other relevant program to touch at the time. The Auburn b-ball program is historically one of the very worst in the SEC. But hey, look what a great coach can do.
I love that Auburn now tries to act like they “cared” about b-ball all along. GTFO
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:39 pm to Frac the world
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As if Auburn fricking cared before lucking into Pearl being too hot for any other relevant program to touch at the time. The Auburn b-ball program is historically one of the very worst in the SEC. But hey, look what a great coach can do. I love that Auburn now tries to act like they “cared” about b-ball all along. GTFO
Ohhh we have a heater here... sorry man, before Pearl was even a thought, we spent almost 100 million on a new gym and practice facility. We might have lucked into Pearl, but at least we cared enough to take a chance when nobody else would.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:41 pm to AU4real35
quote:We built the largest practice facility in the nation around 2010.
we spent almost 100 million on a new gym and practice facility.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:42 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Our arena itself sucks, but our basketball facilities (practice, weight-room, offices, locker rooms) are top of the line.
This. The arena itself has barely been touched. But anyone that has been there knows everything else is among the best.
Many of the athletic dept. offices and offices of many sports are housed in Coleman. Majority of Coleman has been renovated at some point in the last 10 years.
The arena is about to be demo'd to the ground and a new arena built in its footprint, exactly like Sewell-Thomas.
This post was edited on 2/17/20 at 2:48 pm
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:42 pm to tider04
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can smell the fear. Oats doing an amazing job coaching up a young team, with lots of injuries. Folks are really gonna lose their sh!t when Bama wins 5-6 more games and gets into the Big Dance in Oats 1st season.
Same thing was said with Grant and Johnson. Yalls excitement was so overboard, sorta like right now.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:43 pm to pvilleguru
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We built the largest practice facility in the nation around 2010.
That’s great, with all the Renos and other facilities, y’all could’ve built a new gym by now.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:44 pm to AU4real35
Grant and Johnson didn't have these injuries to deal with.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:45 pm to pvilleguru
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Grant and Johnson didn't have these injuries to deal with.
Good grief, man.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:51 pm to AU4real35
quote:What? You keep trying to compare these different seasons, and this one is nothing like those. We are without 3 of our top 6 or 7 players, another one of those 7 is playing with only one hand, and another one of our forwards is getting knee surgery right after the season ends. These next 6 games are the easiest stretch of our conference schedule.
Good grief, man.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 2:57 pm to pvilleguru
I’m comparing coaches more than teams, Grant was the savior when he came in, then his offenses was awful, per Bama fans, them Johnson was the savior, he turned out to be awful, per Bama fans, now Oates is the chosen one but the injuries are holding him back. Guess what Grant has his team in the top 5 at Dayton after a few years. I see a common denominator in all of this, maybe you’ll see it when Oates is shown the door in a couple of years.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 3:06 pm to Canyon16
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losing to a team led by its 1 handed rebounder/free throw shooter.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 3:10 pm to AU4real35
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Grant was the savior when he came in,
It was a universally praised hire.
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them Johnson was the savior
Hardly. He was panic hire after whiffing on bigger candidates. But fans are going to be hopeful of most any hire at first. He recruited well enough to think he might be successful. But once the honey moon was over, things soured quickly.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 3:12 pm to JCinBAMA
Anthony Grant will be the first to tell you that he had room for improvement. He's a mid major coach, that's all. Avery Johnson got the gig after Bama whiffed on Gregg Marshall.
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