News Article: CECIL HURT: Search on for Alabama basketball coach to break four-year cycle

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...What athletic director Greg Byrne will have to do, if he can, is find a coach that will break that cycle, finding someone the fan base isn’t ready to vote out of office in 2023.
That’s all pending the announcement that the buyout negotiations with Avery Johnson are complete. Nothing is finished until it is finished, but sources close to the situation told The Tuscaloosa News on Saturday that there was “optimism” that an agreement could be announced as soon as Sunday.

https://www.tidesports.com/cecil-hu...ma-basketball-coach-to-break-four-year-cycle/
Thank you Cecil for giving us optimism & hope!

 

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Byrne does have a track record for making swift, decisive hires, both at Alabama (baseball coach Brad Bohannon) and at his previous jobs at Arizona and Mississippi State. He will probably play his cards close to the vest, with no long public courtship like the Alabama/Gregg Marshall negotiations four years ago. He won’t take the easy route if he thinks another course is better, at least judging from his decision to bypass Ron Polk’schosen successor for the baseball job at MSU to hire John Cohen instead.

Aiming high sometimes means you miss. Alabama fans don’t like to hear it but some candidates may be happy where they are. But Byrne doesn’t seem like a defeatist, and I don’t think he will sell the potential for Alabama basketball short as he looks to find the man to break the four-year cycle.

https://www.tidesports.com/cecil-hu...ma-basketball-coach-to-break-four-year-cycle/

*Crossing fingers*