How did the weekend effect Alabama?
Tide is not dead for NCAA...
If you watched the game on Saturday you can see just how close we are to being real contenders in the SEC and NCAA. Say what you will about Anthony Grant but twice in the last three years he has take a team down to the last week in a quest to win the SEC. You can whine about not all the scholarships being given. I don't care. You can say that Grant can't coach. You would be wrong. You can say its time to find a new head coach. And if you believe Grant needs to go, you fall into the idiot category. Some fans clearly don't understand basketball. If you did you could point to many indications of a program on rise. We are one injury away from a fantastic season. When Engstom went down the team stumbled but didn't fall. It took a while to get adjusted to a new lineup. Once we adjusted, we've done well.
I don't know about the rest of you but I'm sick and tired of having our team demeaned and our coach demonized by a bunch of that couldn't pick a basketball out of a police lineup. It's almost as if they want Grant to fail. Check out Coach K's first three years as a head coach. He had two losing seasons and the fans wanted him fired. Bobby Knight talked with AD at Duke and told him to be patient. The rest is history. Alabama is on the cusp of another twenty win season. How long has it been since that happened? 15 years or so? I'm writing down names of the naysayers and when we explode I want to tell each of you I told you so.LOL Some of you might remember that when Mal Moore decided to let Gottfried have one more season I predicted 5 years to get things corrected. We are right on track. I still stand by that assumption. Our basketball program doesn't have the same brand name to cash in like football. We should try to understand that. The name Alabama doesn't guarantee success. Ask Wendall Hudson
What a crazy weekend. We lost. No major surprise. That we had a chance to win was. Kentucky got beat by Arkansas. No surprise there. The Big Blue are officially the Big Through. I'm almost positive that the NCAA will slit another teams rightful berth to get them in the Tournament. Mississippi State, who played well against us recently, beat Ole Miss. That is a rivalry game and strange thing happen. Just to set the record straight the Tide is still in second place, and I don't think there were any real changes of making the NCAA field for a couple of SEC teams We were not dealt a fatal blow upon further reflection. One thing Bama did was pass the eye test in front of a national audience. Don't think for one moment that real basketball followers failed to understand the free throw difference. Georgia beats Tennessee and a couple of "bracket experts" say the Vols will make the Tournament. Are they serious? Kentucky has Georgia and Florida left. Say goodnight Johnny boy. Missouri is in the tournament unless something horrible happens such as losing to Arkansas at home and then losing to Tennessee at home.
Everybody has an opinion and here's mine after much deliberation: The winner of the Ole Miss/Bama game will go unless they each lose their last game of the season. I think LSU will beat Ole Miss in Tigertown. I think Bama will beat Georgia. So here is an interesting question. What happens if Ole Miss beats Bama and loses to LSU. Likewise, the Tide beats Ole Miss and gets beat by Georgia. Barring some bizarre event, then I think only two SEC teams go: Florida and Missouri. The winner of Ole Miss/Bama game goes pending winning their final game of the season. It would not hurt if each team won another game in the SEC Tourney. The wild card would be what if the loser of the game in Oxford wins their last game and then makes a run in the SEC Tournament.
I think the SEC is going to get three teams regardless of what experts think. If Kentucky or Tennessee is one of those teams someone is screwing the pooch as we say in North Alabama. I think Kentucky or Tennessee will have to win the SEC to make the field. I talked with three people who were on past selection committees each agreed on one thing - to much basketball is left to say anything about bubble teams with clarity.
Tide is not dead for NCAA...
I don't know about the rest of you but I'm sick and tired of having our team demeaned and our coach demonized by a bunch of that couldn't pick a basketball out of a police lineup. It's almost as if they want Grant to fail. Check out Coach K's first three years as a head coach. He had two losing seasons and the fans wanted him fired. Bobby Knight talked with AD at Duke and told him to be patient. The rest is history. Alabama is on the cusp of another twenty win season. How long has it been since that happened? 15 years or so? I'm writing down names of the naysayers and when we explode I want to tell each of you I told you so.LOL Some of you might remember that when Mal Moore decided to let Gottfried have one more season I predicted 5 years to get things corrected. We are right on track. I still stand by that assumption. Our basketball program doesn't have the same brand name to cash in like football. We should try to understand that. The name Alabama doesn't guarantee success. Ask Wendall Hudson
What a crazy weekend. We lost. No major surprise. That we had a chance to win was. Kentucky got beat by Arkansas. No surprise there. The Big Blue are officially the Big Through. I'm almost positive that the NCAA will slit another teams rightful berth to get them in the Tournament. Mississippi State, who played well against us recently, beat Ole Miss. That is a rivalry game and strange thing happen. Just to set the record straight the Tide is still in second place, and I don't think there were any real changes of making the NCAA field for a couple of SEC teams We were not dealt a fatal blow upon further reflection. One thing Bama did was pass the eye test in front of a national audience. Don't think for one moment that real basketball followers failed to understand the free throw difference. Georgia beats Tennessee and a couple of "bracket experts" say the Vols will make the Tournament. Are they serious? Kentucky has Georgia and Florida left. Say goodnight Johnny boy. Missouri is in the tournament unless something horrible happens such as losing to Arkansas at home and then losing to Tennessee at home.
Everybody has an opinion and here's mine after much deliberation: The winner of the Ole Miss/Bama game will go unless they each lose their last game of the season. I think LSU will beat Ole Miss in Tigertown. I think Bama will beat Georgia. So here is an interesting question. What happens if Ole Miss beats Bama and loses to LSU. Likewise, the Tide beats Ole Miss and gets beat by Georgia. Barring some bizarre event, then I think only two SEC teams go: Florida and Missouri. The winner of Ole Miss/Bama game goes pending winning their final game of the season. It would not hurt if each team won another game in the SEC Tourney. The wild card would be what if the loser of the game in Oxford wins their last game and then makes a run in the SEC Tournament.
I think the SEC is going to get three teams regardless of what experts think. If Kentucky or Tennessee is one of those teams someone is screwing the pooch as we say in North Alabama. I think Kentucky or Tennessee will have to win the SEC to make the field. I talked with three people who were on past selection committees each agreed on one thing - to much basketball is left to say anything about bubble teams with clarity.
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