If you consider that their arena is packed for every game and ours is about 2/3 full . . .
Agreed.
Right now, I think we're not being objective at all if we think basketball at Bama is as big as basketball at Wichita State.
No way.
This is a huge thread. That's because we're looking for a new coach.
I've particpated in game threads of three pages or less this season, when the arena was half full or less.
And if I'm not mistaken, we started out the season pretty good, like 11-3 or something.
We may have had over 10,000 at the Wichita State game earlier this season. That only left about 5,000 empty seats.
If I'm Greg Marshall, I see that, and I use it in comparison when weighing the job factors.
I think the only way he will take the job is if he really and truly wants to take on the huge challenge of making Alabama legitimate in Basketball again, the challenge of knowing that it's a complete rebuilding project, and that it will take two to three years minimum in order to see very much success.
I hope he accepts, but we need to lose this attitude of, "How could he possibly turn us down"?
How can he? Easily.
He has it made where he is, unless he can't make it on 2 million a year.