RandySavage

It's a different landscape for sure but the status of the program is still a significant factor in attracting talent. We had less than zero clout as a program when Bruce took over. We've made multiple final fours, won numerous conference titles, earned a reputation as one of the best home court environments in basketball, hosted multiple college gamedays, put guys in the league etc

The program Bruce took over vs what Steven took over are not the same in any way whatsoever. The covid season with Coopers issue and postseason ban is an obvious one off outliner for a number of reasons

This might surpass senior night champions as their highwater mark outside of football

Bama taking so many Ls on here today

Two workouts a week even with a race that weekend? I agree with needing to run fast to get faster just not sure what kind of load a 14 year old girl can handle.

If we need to win 3 that's as good a draw as we can hope for though i doubt it will matter to this team.

Alabama fan vs. IQ Test
Alabama basketball star vs.young mother
Alabama fan vs. buffet
Courtney Upshaw vs. girlfriend
Nate Oats vs. judge
Charles Bediako vs. professional basketball
Kalen DeBoer vs. Indiana
Tyrone Prothro vs. grass
George Wallace vs. national guard
Alabama fan vs. wife
Cam Newton vs. 24-0
Pat Dye vs. Bear Bryant

Senior night champions! Hall of fame moral victory banner. Not quite Tenn champions of life sad but it's close

Out rebounded 41-26 by a Nate Oats team, just pathetic. I'm sure we have to bring Steven back but it would take a miracle for him to be able to turn this around. I see two options...

1. Most of these guys come back because they don't get better offers and they've already shown they will quit on him.

2. We replace almost the whole team and our boosters won't support Steven financially when are going to have to overpay because of our coaching situation and our talent level sinks further.

quote:

---

It’s just a bad team. All there is to it.

This is a bad basketball team. Full stop. End of story.

---

Compared to last year yes, good coaching and team management and this is a low seed early out tournament team. We aren't even competing anymore and losing to teams significantly worse than us, with major stakes on the line, at home. That's not a roster issue that's a coaching/culture issue.

There are probably less than 10-12 teams with, on paper, a 1-2 punch like Hall and Pett. The leading scorer from a top 3 conference and one of the top handful of returning freshmen in the county. They have both significantly regressed under this staff and dragged the rest of the team down with them. Murphy has emerged as an above average big and Freeman, Overton, Jovic, and sometimes SWA are mid level role players. There are going to be way worse rosters that make the tournament.

So her last two 800s she's basically gone 35, 40, 40, 39-40 to finish 2:34-2:35. She's only run one 1600 this season and ran 5:42 but a couple of kids she was beating comfortably in XC season and even by 3-4 seconds in her last 800 ran mid 5:30s today so she's frustrated.

I guess my biggest question is if we were to implement a little strength work what days is it best to do it on, especially trying to navigate it with meets on the weekend? Should she be doing more pace work? I think maybe she's still training more like a XC runner than a 800/1600 track runner.

Typically right now if she has a Saturday meet she does-

Easy 4ish on Mondays maybe a couple of strides
Tuesday rest/maybe light core work
Wednesday 3 easy with a mile or so of 200/400 pace work
Thursday 4-5 easy.
Friday shakeout maybe 2 total with strides
Saturday race
Sunday 4 easy

If no race Saturday-

Monday- 4-5 easy
Tuesday- rest/core
Wednesday- 4 w/2 or 3 at Tempo
Thursday- 4-5 easy
Friday- rest/core
Saturday- 6
Sunday- Track workout