BAMA DESERVES RESPECT IN THE NIT

        I am consistently amazed at posters who say that Alabama should turn down a bid to the NIT. On fan even wrote it was an embarrassment to our sports program to play. That one post made my top ten all time stupid posts. In order to be better, the Crimson Tide needs to play as many games as possible.  Is it going to be a humiliation the day the Tide football program isn't in the playoff games? Not hardly, and fans will tune in and cheer Alabama to hell and back. There are at least a third or more of the NCAA field isn't has good as the teams in the NIT. It could be even more in some years.

        The Tide will also be required to play in the NIT or come up with some damn good reason to the NCAA, who owns the NIT these days, why they won't play. There is no good reason. I'm disappointed we aren't going to the NCAA but not to the point I am embarrassed regarding our team. I am embarrassed by our fans who believe that. First, you are not Alabama basketball fans. Second, you don't know anything about basketball. Third, join another site. Criticism is one thing; stupidity is another. One fan calls playing in the NIT stinky basketball. No. Stinky basketball is a 16 seed playing Kansas in round one of the NCAA. That's stinky basketball.

      I think the Crimson is a three seed in the NIT. If Ole Miss beats us, we fall to a 5 or so. If we beat Ole Miss and even look decent against Kentucky, we could even be a two seed.  If the laws of reality are somehow suspended, and we beat Kentucky, we could end up one seed. No breath holding on that one, please. Just stop disrespecting a good bunch of young men and our head basketball coaches by being so ignorant.