🏀 Time may be now for Tide to fire Grant
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Typical Pearl team, defensively. He coaches them to hold on the inbounds plays. Tarrant's methods for getting out of the holds was what got him in trouble. Kareem used to hack the arms of defenders holding him. If I were Grant I would complain to the SEC office about the non calls on their holds.
Great that we found a way to win when we were so flat emotionally for much of the game. Maybe Levi should start taking over the game earlier.
Great that we found a way to win when we were so flat emotionally for much of the game. Maybe Levi should start taking over the game earlier.
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Exactly, Our best and talented players, what few there are, Randolph and Cooper is not getting the ball enough to help push other teams in the second half.
Best of luck to this team and I am 100% TIDE, but Grant probably won't win 8 SEC games at the end. Time to so called hire the search committee and get a real COACH, not one in waiting and no real experience as a Head Coach of a major college. I know Mark had his problems at Alabama when he was there but he is looking pretty good ever since he left. maybe it was good for him and ALABAMA. We all know that from what i understand that it was Newton that saved Grant's job last year and to give him one more year. Pay the money and get a real Head Coach who knows basketball
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Any suggestions...you want a head coach with experience at a major college. CMG took the program right to the toilet, beginning right after he got his big contract.
Of our successful HC'S-- C.M. Newton was HC at Transylvania College, not exactly a major program.
Wimp was never anything but an assistant until he replaced Newton.
Gottfired coached the Murray State program.
I would rank Grant's experience at VCU ahead of all three of those.
In addition there were character issues with Wimp and with CMG, which caused, or hastened their exits.
The team looked much better, I thought, against Arkansas. I think that game, just two days before, drained them, emotionally and physically. Goes to show how bad and talent deficient Auburn really is. It didn't seem, to me, that Bama was ever very worried they wouldn't win against the Barn. I know it was close, but I guess it didn't seem like it was that big a deal.
And, Alabama has never been past the Great Eight. Coaching means something.
Don't count out this year's team.
Was Alabama in contention and could they have possibly won every single game this year? I think the answer to that question is yes to all but two. Those were the Kentucky and the Iowa State game and Bama was never close. This team is really, really close to being exceptional.
That being said, me and everybody else is an expert. We'll see. I like this year much more than last year or the year before.
Furthermore, how many of Bama's players last year or the year before exhibited anything resembling genuine emotion? When Tarrant was ejected in the Barn game, that was genuine emotion. He cares. It's been a while since we've seen that. I sort of like the fact that players on this team have a little bit of a chip on their shoulder. They don't just take it lying down. They fight back.
Coleman and Tarrant seem to be the kind of players that take their game to another level whenever an opponent runs their mouth. I like that. Get mad sometimes. Use that energy.
Coleman and Tarrant seem to be the kind of players that take their game to another level whenever an opponent runs their mouth. I like that. Get mad sometimes. Use that energy.
Chief, you are spot on.
I saw someone mention on another site that six of the guys they have in their rotation are players Pearl brought in.
Considering you live in Tennessee, this shocks me a bit—shocks me seeing it coming from you. The state in itself has some talent in the high school ranks. Hell, Nolan made his living off of kids in Memphis. Tennessee, as a program, was pretty damn strong when he came in. A good portion of that was living off of Summit's coattails. If you look at them now they've got some talent on their squad this season.
I haven't looked at their roster in that much detail so I don't know what kind of cards he's playing down there. There's already stories about assistants and transportation issues with recruits.
That has been a huge problem for them for the last four or five years. The program brings in a half dozen players from wherever, usually transfers, or jucos, very few out of high school. Mostly they don't work out for reasons similar to what led them to transfer to Auburn in the first place, so most of these are run off or choose to leave in the off season, and a similar batch is brought in. Wash, rinse, repeat. I will give that they seem to play hard under Pearl, but playing hard was not an issue under his predecessor. Every program has its turnover, but the boogs have had so much turnover in basketball over the last five years that it was turmoil.
I was just mulling on our own situation and the attrition factor. When we signed Devontae Pollard we thought that we had an athletic big man who would be a real force for us however long he stayed. It was impossible to foresee the bizarre circumstances that led to his departure.
We expected Nick Jacobs to be a wide body who had some low post scoring skills. Indeed he showed that he could do this, and expectations, at least my own, were for him to be a real factor for us, a guy who could post up, get the ball and either score or force the defense to help on him so that he could kick it out to the open man. Circumstances led him to leave the team as well.
If you plugged Jacobs or Pollard into this team as an effective player it would change our dynamics considerably. Because there are only thirteen players permitted on basketball scholarship at the time, a recruit who does not pan out hurts much more than it would in football.
@TerryP Later in his tenure at ut (and probably much due to what got him in trouble), he got better players. He had walk-ons starting in the first year or two he coached. ut has never touched many of the recruits from Memphis. This state is divided into thirds. Memphis is not really part of the section that is East Tennessee. ut has a couple of quality players this year. High quality. Past that... eh.
Not hearing much about Williams yet.
Not hearing much about Williams yet.
We pulled Shannon Hale out of East Tennessee, and as I remember UT was never in the picture for him. Memphis is to basketball in Tennessee now, and has ben for years, what Birmingham was to basketball in this state throughout the seventies and eighties. It was where the best coaches, teams, and most of the best players were.
Chris Lofton was really the player that put UT in the spotlight under Pearl. Lofton was actually at UT because UK turned him down. His players came from all over the country, only a few from the Memphis. area.
Chris Lofton was really the player that put UT in the spotlight under Pearl. Lofton was actually at UT because UK turned him down. His players came from all over the country, only a few from the Memphis. area.
1983, the Memphis Melrose (high school) basketball team was taller than the University of Tennessee team. Melrose had Bedford that played at Memphis and in the NBA. Two 7 footers on that high school team. Their pg was 6'5". Tennessee would love to go get players from Memphis. It doesn't happen too much though. Players in Tennessee don't get much attention from in-state schools. It's bizarre. Ronnie McMahon wasn't recruited heavily and when he graduated at Vandy he had the all time school record for scoring.
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