TIME HAS  COME FOR ALABAMA TO INVEST IN NEW BASKETBALL ARENA 

IF ALABAMA IS SERIOUS ABOUT ITS 

PROGRAM, LET'S BUILD SOMETHING LIKE A SNAKE PIT

EVEN OLE MISS AND AUBURN HAVE NEW ARENAS

     Seriously, if you are sincere about having a first rate sports program, a great coach isn't going to be enough for the Univesity of Alabama. We don't have the tradition of Duke and UCLA. Those two programs can get by with Cameron Indoor and Pauley Pavilion. Now is the time. Alabama has the money to build a new facility and quit wasting money putting new lipstick on a pig. You can add all the beautiful features, scoreboards, video boards, make it wi-fi friendly, have half time shows, and have the dance team wear thongs, and it won't help the Tide win a game. Wait, if we had the dance team sit on the visiting bench, it might help. 

TIME TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP ABOUT EXCELLENCE

   

Lipstick on a Pig

  Coleman reminds me of my 2001 Volvo S-80. It just hit the 300,000-mile mark. It is clean and shiny, and it looks pretty darn good. We call it the junk mobile. It serves a purpose but I'd not want to take it anywhere and not worry about a breakdown. If I had to drive this car over a 100 miles, I'd be concerned. You can only get so many miles regardless of the upkeep. It's the same thing as what The Univeristy of Alabama is doing with Coleman. They are just trying to get by. As long as we keep Coleman as our arena we will just get by. That doesn't mean we can't have some great seasons. But we will neve have an excellent program. Excellent programs invest whatever it takes to be better. As long as our University continues to delude itself that Coleman is a perfectly safe place to play basketball we will never reach the potential that Tide basketball fans want. I don't know exactly how much money our football program makes. It's a lot. I know the SEC network is paying us around 50 million dollars. Alabama could get a corporate sponsor to build a new arena, or, at least, defray the costs. I'm not sure how we'd feel playing in the Blue Cross Coleman Coliseum, but it would help us to become a top twenty school, I'd learn to live with it. 

LETS BE TRUTHFUL TO THE FANS

    It's just time to the University of Alabama to admit they are not interested in having a top program, or break ground on a new building to show they want to excel. I love Avery Johnson and he'll do fine. I want better than fine. I want a program that causes other teams to curse their fate knowing they are coming to Bama.

 

 I think UAB has a  better place for home court advantage than Bama. At least, they've moved the media to a different location. The media in the State of Alabama doesn't give a flip about Alabama basketball. Get those students down on the floor. For nasty old men like myself, I'd creep over to the student section and give those 


guys a historical perspective about what it means to act like a fool at home. 

ALABAMA BASKETBALL DESERVES MORE THAN BEING TREATED SECOND CLASS

   It's time for the University of Alabama to quit treating its basketball teams like second class citizens. As long as your stands are a half wedge away from the court you are losing some home court advantage. I am tired of hearing people and fans say the word Alabama means winning. That's a half truth. They mean football. We could mean basketball as well. Roll Tide.