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“It’s perfectly reasonable” to assume you are a troll. You’ve been here 6 months and all you’ve done is slam the program, cast doubt about it or offer faint praise. Hopefully, you will be ignored from hence forward.

Can’t find anything on the game. Even checked rolltide.com & Al.com. Was it postponed? Help.

Would someone please update the title line SEC record from 6-8 to the correct record of 7-8?

Thank you

I did a personal look/study a few years ago when conf realignment was hot and heavy. Even UK BB produced less than half of the profit football did. Far less revenues as well. Part of that is that the BB HC salaries take up a larger proportion of the revenues produced by their sport. Alabama men’s BB is definitely a money-maker (one of only two on almost any campus) but it doesn’t compare to football. Same almost everywhere in P4.


No one else makes money. Not baseball, softball, gymnastics, W BB, etc. - nothing. That’s why they all bow to the football program. Sarah Patterson used to acknowledge this all of the time. Great coach and wise and proper lady.

This doesn’t mean the non-revenue sports are illegitimate or parasites or meaningless. A university education is supposed to provide such or similar opportunities. But they are distinguished from football and M BB.

Those %’s are misleading for Mo. It was on 26 shots for the season, less than 1 per game, and they were essentially set shots because he was usually dared to shoot. No one with a lick of sense thinks Mo is a 40% 3pt shooter.

I loved Mo, but acting like he is a 40% 3pt shooter based on last year’s performance is fools gold. Mo is tough, gritty, underrated even offensively gifted around the basket, etc., but considering him to be a 3pt weapon at this point is an illusion.

Thanks for the correction. I simply remembered wrong. I didn’t realize it was that long ago.

The essence of the post still stands as far as I know :-).

Frankly, only a moron or anti-Bama bigot (there are many) would question it.

Probably as healthy as they are going to be this year, more so than the end of the reg season. That’s after losing their two best perimeter defenders and best 3 pt shooter and another Holloway type shooter with size and grit.

Alabama may be the only team that can beat Duke, refs and the media, though it will probably be tough.

Actually, it was Wallace “Bear” Wade, who won 3 NCs in 1925, 26 & 30. Took Alabama to the only bowl in the country at the time, the Rose Bowl, and went 2-0-1 in 3 tries. Teams overall going 10-0, 9-0-1 and 10-0 respectively. He left after the ‘30 season.

He not only put Alabama football on the map, but Southern football. It was only 60 years after the Civil War - you can’t image the contempt with which the South was held (if you understand that it is bad now, it doesn’t compare to then - WW2 changed it some). There were many who whined about choosing a team from the South, assuming they could not compete, with some predicting a 50 point loss. After the 20-19 win, as the team travelled home by train they stopped at other places in the South to be treated as conquering warriors returning victorious from Chancellorsville. It meant a lot to the South, hence the beginning of the South’s passion for the sport: They could compete with the rest of the country.

Again, one can’t overstate the social significance of that victory. Of course it has no effect like that anymore. But that is the genesis of Alabama’s great passion for football and to a lesser extent the Souh’s. To the rest of the nation Alabama has always represented Southern football, though that has diminished some with the success of other programs in the last 20 years.

Frank Thomas succeeded Wade and won at the same rate as Wade, 81% vs Bryant @ 82% and Saban @ 86%, and 1 NC (I don’t count the bogus ‘41 claim) in 1934 with Dixie Howell, Don Hutson and Paul Bryant, among other great players on that team. He also won the first two SEC championships, 4 overall in 14 years. Thomas also coached Harry Gilmer and the 1945 team to a 10-0 season, winning the 1945 season’s Rose Bowl in a blowout over USC in their first loss in 10 Rose Bowls, but finishing 2nd behind Army in the AP. He was 2-1 in 3 Rose Bowls.

In the 21 years from Alabama’s first Rose Bowl, of 6, in ‘25 till the last in ‘45, the last open Rose Bowl, Alabama was 4-1-1, the rest of the country was 4-11 vs the host West coast teams.

Don’t need him to beat UT.

Alabama has won 18 of 20 vs UT in football and you own them?