Barbee's last season????

Barbee nears the end...

         I was looking at the Auburn roster today and thought this might be the worst team in modern SEC basketball history. That takes in a lot of teams and a lot of years. The funny thing is that no one in AU will even care. After all in "Gus we Trust" is now in vogue. Tony Barbee is not in any real disfavor on the plains. I'm not sure that most people even care about basketball. Alabama isn't exactly setting the woods on fire but at least people are concerned about basketball and want to see success.  You go to an Auburn game and people talk about how certain basketball players would be great defensive backs or tight ends. No joke. So if you are an Alabama basketball fan and you think things are bad in Tuscaloosa,  you should go down to Lee County and have a good laugh. If nothing else you can see the modern version of a comb over to hide baldness. Barbee now sports the comb down. Appropriate because that is where the Tigers are headed this season. Seriously, they might be so bad they finish 5 games behind the second worst team.

            I truly like Tony Barbee. He is not a bad basketball coach. He is stuck in the most hopeless basketball job in the SEC. It might even be the worst job in the NCAA. He has given it his best. I don't think that Bobby Knight could win at Auburn. All of this is really pretty good news for the Tide. Many fans think that Anthony Grant can't get the job done.Really?  I disagree. He has assembled the 6th best recruiting class in nation and one more signee is very likely. When Lee signs with Bama it means that Bama will have signed a top 5 national class and will have covered the point guard, the two guard, a versatile forward, and an inside player. That goes along with two very, very talented transfers. Better days are ahead. You just can't say that about the Tigers.

         Alabama has a tough schedule. Auburn has a schedule that is tough mainly because they are so bad, but also because it is an embarrassment themselves and the SEC. Here are some of their games:




Look on Wiki to see if these teams really exists:

• Nicholls State
• Northwestern State
• Jacksonville State
• Murry State
• Murray State (not a bad team in truth)
• Tennessee State
• Arkansas Pine-Bluff
• Florida A&M
• Clemson (not bad either)

The Tough games?

• Iowa State
• Boston College
• Illinois - none of those teams will be bad but except for SEC that is the best non-conference teams the Tigers play. To be fair, you might throw Clemson and Murray State in the tough game category. It isn't a fearsome fivesome. It's a joke.

     Barbee has couple of top 100 players and plans to play an up tempo game. That's usually coach speak for we can't play defense so we'll try to just out score the other team. I will say this about Coach Barbee - his kids play hard and you can't take them lightly. Alabama did that on a road game and it cost them a trip to the NCAA. Auburn will not go down quietly. They will go down just the same and it will cost Barbee his job. I wonder how long it will take Auburn fans to notice.