phil4bama

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They would be fools not to do this. I love Oats but the rock to his scissors is having your tallest player guard the rim and telling the other four guys to stay around the 3-pt line and try to clog potential kick-out lanes.

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And Mara is like having a 7’2” Spanish octopus in the lane. For a big guy, he has some of the quickest hands I’ve ever seen. He contests EVERYTHING and swats at the ball, getting a hand on it more than you would think is possible and he doesn’t pick up fouls. He gets away with a lot of player contact because he makes contact with the ball almost every time. Everyone talks about Yaxel but in their last game, he wasn’t a factor and really disappeared.
My biggest fear is this game is going to resemble the Duke game last year a lot. We had no answer for their big men and I don’t see how we have an answer for Michigan’s unless Allen just goes beast mode and gets some help from Bowen and Williamson and Sherrell has a career game against Mara. Michigan will struggle to contain our back court but the drive and kick out game is not going to be there. They don’t have to collapse on the lane to help out, Mara can protect the rim all on his own. We just have to stay hot from 3 but usually after games like the T Tech game, Bama reverts to the mean and goes ice cold from deep.
I’m not into moral victories but if we stay close and have a real shot in the second half, I will be proud of our guys and consider it progress. I do NOT want to watch another beat down like we took from those Duke pricks to reiterate that Bama hasn’t gotten over the hump from pretty good to can hang with the elites. Gonna be watching and pulling hard for ‘em! Roll Tide!

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The governor decided that he wants LSU athletics to be competitive. It's Louisiana so no doubt there is quite a lot of state and childrens' hospital money being funneled under the table to help make it happen.

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That’s the politically correct way to say it. Try this instead: the corn dogs have adopted a “win at all costs“ mentality. Nobody is governing anymore, nobody is punishing the rule breakers, so frick it! Let’s go balls to the wall and win erything! Kiffin and Wade! Hookers and blow! Laissez les bons temps rouler! Geaux Tigas! frick the NCAA and frick Bama! That is a more accurate description of what they are doing.

I don’t see women’s basketball becoming a revenue sport any time soon, but it’s popularity make it one of the fastest growing sports in the world. And the contract the WNBA just made with the players will only enhance that popularity. Those women are being paid like true professional athletes now.
I’m not saying give them a blank check or anything but it might be time to re-evaluate where some of the non-revenue money is being spent and potentially re-allocate some of it.

Why Kansas? That’s probably the toughest blue blood basketball job out there. Midwestern school in the middle of nowhere, sparsely populated state with no local recruiting base although they recruit nationally, in a tough league…I may be wrong, but it just feels like Kansas basketball is one bad hire away from following Nebraska football down the road to has-been status.

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It's even tough pull for TJ. I think they end up with Vandy coach.

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Man from Ga Southern to James Madison to Vanderbilt to UNC in a little over 6 years is a pretty meteoric rise. Is he ready for that big of a stage?

I think Golden is a possible candidate.

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Other than the normal names, I think T.J. Otzelberger is a strong possibility.

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The guy has an impressive resume but he’s done it in the Midwest. Moving to the East Coast basketball hotbed of North Carolina may be a bad geographic fit. That would be my only concern.

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She definitely turned the program around but the fact that she had 3 WNBA draft picks last season (out of 38 total picks) and couldn't A.) secure a top four seed which would have had them hosting first and second round games in Tuscaloosa and B.) could never get over the second round hurdle tells you all you need to know. Maybe I'm misremembering but it also felt like in a lot of our loses the last few years we had a half time or fourth quarter lead and blew it late.

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And let me add, there’s no doubt that the SEC is the toughest womens basketball league in the country but when was the last time we upset one of the SEC upper crust like Carolina or LSU or Texas? Hell, when was the last time we even kept those games close? I don’t expect to win the conference and beat everybody but every now and then you need to upset the big dogs just to show you can compete. She seemed to have Tennessee’s number and posted an impressive record against the Vols but they are a shell of what they were under Pat Summit. It was time for a change.

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Like to know the full story on this move.

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If you watched her final game yesterday, you would know. She either knew she was already fired or she is a terrible end game coach. Either way, she mailed it in.

If making the tournament is all we want to do, Curry is fine and will keep doing that more often than not. And she’s not going to make it to the second weekend very often either. If we want to make the Sweet 16 or better, we’ve got the wrong coach. It’s extremely rare that she upsets the upper crust of the SEC too. When was the last time we beat S. Carolina, LSU, or Texas? I’m just saying Curry has hit her ceiling. If everyone is ok with that, we’ve got our gal. If we want more, we don’t. Personally, I’m glad she’s not Wendell Hudson, but I’m ready to take the next step and I don’t think she can. Today’s end game was atrocious coaching. The Sweet Sixteen was there for the taking and Curry sits there with her thumb up her arse just letting the team play it out.

Convince the FOGs we need to spend more NIL money on basketball. Good luck with that!