IIRC, he was expected to sign with Bama and surprised everybody by signing with UAB.
For those that care, here's the SEC tournament bracket if the season ended right now.
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For those that care, here's the SEC tournament bracket if the season ended right now.
Next week's "Battle Report"For those that care, here's the SEC tournament bracket if the season ended right now.
"Coach" Anthony Grant's team achieved another milestone by avoiding the SEC tournament play-in game, which not only kicked in another performance clause bonus in Grant's contract but also gave the basketball team great momentum for heading into next year for "Coach" Grant's seventh season!
What next week's Battle Report should say:
"Coach" Anthony Grant has been relieved of his duties at Alabama and a decision that possibly makes for the best $2M the university has spent in the last 45 years. The athletics department has brainstormed intensely over the last 72 hours and come up with a way of recouping Grant's send-off "award" money and not (yet) making another big outlay for a new coach, while also raising interest in the Alabama program, which had plummeted. For the 2015-16 season, the Crimson Tide will be led in each game by a succession of celebrity coaches, starting with Lady Gaga, followed by Country Boy Eddie, and including Jimmie "Dyn-o-mite!" Walker and for some home-state connection, Wayne ("Trapper John") Rogers. And that's just for the non-conference schedule!
They can save money by checking out of the hotel when they leave for the Vandy game.
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Amen! If we were winning with this style the conversation would be different!
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I would ONLY support a change if we have a lock on someone BETTER than Grant for the head coach position. There's no joy in watching our program struggle to find a quality replacement for a coach. And, it would be terrible to take a step backwards and then have a much bigger task at the end of disastrous hire (like Barbee for AU).
It wasn't Barbee being a terrible coach. AU was a terrible program to recruit kids to when you are playing in an old barn. AU had killed about 4 coaches careers since Sonny was the coach..
We need to make a good hire who can do many of the things that Grant has failed to do. Promote the sport to the fans and the students, recruit the best players regardless of whether they are from AAU or JUCO, and most importantly change the current culture of the program.
But if we stick with the status quo, things will get just as bad as here we are paying him a nice chunk of money for nothing. We are going to get crushed with the in-state talent because Pearl is going to be killing him on the JUCO trail and with in state kids. Coaches will for sure bring up Trevor Lacey who in Grant's system he was horrible but moved to NC State and will probably be 1st team All-ACC. If that doesn't tell you Grant is missing the boat in coaching nothing will. At this point I would rather take the job for free than to see Grant coach here next year.
Think I'll cash in my vote now..
very hard hard for me to do cause man I really liked the guy and believed in him.. I'll eat some crow cause I was still a believer for a majority of this year. But enough is enough..
very hard hard for me to do cause man I really liked the guy and believed in him.. I'll eat some crow cause I was still a believer for a majority of this year. But enough is enough..
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I voted yes. The program is not going to get any better with Grant as coach and that is not a personal stab at him, it is what it is he is just not the guy to get us where we should be.
I'm not a TiderInsider member, but some folks on another Bama board are discussing a new poster on TI. The poster claims Grant knows he'll be fired after the SEC Tournament and won't coach the NIT. The poster also says there's a list of three candidates - Greg Marshall, Steve Prohm, and a mysterious third candidate. The folks on the board I read said the poster is pretty convincing in his posts.
I agree, he's doing a bang-up job at Murray. But, I would like for us to go after Gregg Marshall first since he has been to a Final Four. I would like to see Steve coach for a few more years before we offer him. If Marshall declines, by all means go after Steve.
I won't repeat the rumor that I have heard but it somewhat jives with the TI info. What I have heard is not on any forum that I have seen and it may not even mean anything but IF it is true then it leads me to believe the Grant's do not expect to be in Tuscaloosa much longer.
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Oh, the irony...............a tale of two programs.
One had the NIT championship, there for the picking, and gave it to the other one. Who goes on to higher achievements, in the Big Dance. While the other one won't sniff the NIT, let alone the Big Dance.
If this were to happen, one could facetiously say CAG picked his replacement the hard way.
A few points...
It's pretty simple really, CAG was hired six years ago to do a job. He didn't, end of story. No one expected us to be undefeated and #1 by now, but most all expected our BB program to at least be trending upward. It's not. I was all for keeping CAG for another year last season. After all, Kessons and Tarrant were coming in, Randolph and Cooper would be back, Hale and Taylor would have another year in the system and Norris and Coleman were freshmen. While our w-l record is better, our on court performance has been extremely disappointing.
Cag may be a "good guy", but so are Mike Shula and CNS, and which one of them is the better coach. Post season play can also be a very faulty indicator of a coach and team. Post season play should be a reward for a job well done, but nowadays the NCAA tourney gives out bids like candy. I'll bet, when it's all said and done, close to 40 teams in the "dance" will have lost a third of their games. Look at TAMU, LSU, UGA, and Ole Miss. They'll all probably get NCAA bids, but they'll all have at least ten losses, and ten losses is 1/3 of a 30 game schedule. Call me old fashioned but losing 1/3 of your games hardly constitutes a reward...or it didn't used to.
Like I said before, I don't care who the coach is or where he comes from as long as he stay's out of personal trouble, does the right thing, keeps us out of NCAA hot water, and builds a solid program. IOW, do what he's paid millions to do...it can be done...ask CNS.
It's pretty simple really, CAG was hired six years ago to do a job. He didn't, end of story. No one expected us to be undefeated and #1 by now, but most all expected our BB program to at least be trending upward. It's not. I was all for keeping CAG for another year last season. After all, Kessons and Tarrant were coming in, Randolph and Cooper would be back, Hale and Taylor would have another year in the system and Norris and Coleman were freshmen. While our w-l record is better, our on court performance has been extremely disappointing.
Cag may be a "good guy", but so are Mike Shula and CNS, and which one of them is the better coach. Post season play can also be a very faulty indicator of a coach and team. Post season play should be a reward for a job well done, but nowadays the NCAA tourney gives out bids like candy. I'll bet, when it's all said and done, close to 40 teams in the "dance" will have lost a third of their games. Look at TAMU, LSU, UGA, and Ole Miss. They'll all probably get NCAA bids, but they'll all have at least ten losses, and ten losses is 1/3 of a 30 game schedule. Call me old fashioned but losing 1/3 of your games hardly constitutes a reward...or it didn't used to.
Like I said before, I don't care who the coach is or where he comes from as long as he stay's out of personal trouble, does the right thing, keeps us out of NCAA hot water, and builds a solid program. IOW, do what he's paid millions to do...it can be done...ask CNS.
A name on another forum that is getting a lot of attention is Richard Pitino. Supposedly he and Stansbury have reached out to us several times to express their interest in the job if there is an opening.
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I know the guy through his posts over the years, not personally. I'd say he has had some good info from time to time but he's not infallible. There are a couple of others saying the same who are also long-term posters. However, the main question is whether or not Battle will take this on...
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