TIDE COACH DID A OUTSTANDING JOB...
Some people think Alabama should have kept Mark Gottfried. Their story line is that Anthony Grant is half the coach that Gottfried was when he was Alabama. I'm happy for Mark and his run of success at NCST. Who isn't happy to see a 'Bama man succeed? I think the reason that Mark is a better coach now than before is pretty simple.
- He got big time wake up call about how not to run a program when he was fired by Alabama
- His television gig gave him access to the best coaching and coaching techniques that not everyone has access. I never said that MG wasn't smart. How can you not improve when you go from coach to coach and learn how they coach? Seriously, if any of us did the same thing for three years we'd have picked up a lot of things as well.
What I noticed in watching State play the other night was how improved his players are with fundamentals. You might win a lot of games in the SEC on talent, but everyone in the ACC has good players. So you better have good athletes and they better be fundamentally sound. And it seems he's got that throwing the ball inbounds figured out now. I pulled for State because Mark Gottfried is a good guy who lost his way, and it appears he's found his stuff. That is a great story.
But anyone who thinks that Mark Gottfreid is a better coach than Anthony Grant just doesn't get what happened to Alabama this season. Why didn't Alabama beat the BlueJays? We didn't have Tony Mitchell on the team. You don't lose your most explosive and talented player and expect good things to happen That's it. That's all it is. When you lose 20% of your starting lineup things aren't going to be perfect. If you talking about football that would 4.4 players. That might be Trent, AJ, Barrett, Hightower, and throw in Mark Barron for a second half. What Grant did with this team after the suspension of four starters for various lengths of time is nothing short of miraculous. So all you guys out there who want Grants head use your own.
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