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Ron Steele: MIA at Basketball Banquet.

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Ron Steele was the only member of the Alabama basketball team not at the banquet tonight. There was mention of him when Tom Roberts named off each player, but they also mentioned Pickett and Tubbs.

Now, everyone knows that Pickett and Tubbs were not going to be in attendace but the absence of Steele kinda baffles me. Why wasn't he there, you think? Also, if there was some logical reasoning why he wasn't, why wasn't it announced? I'm sure everyone else wondered the same thing.

I wasn't sitting near the players, but when CMG got up and said a few words about each player individually, Steele was not mentioned or recognized at all. I'm not sure if this is a bad sign or not, but it definately doesn't seem right....Am I looking into this too much?

On a lighter note, CMG joked a little with Hendrix. Praising his determination to improve his body. In the first conditioning drill Hendrix had at UA, CMG joked that Hendrix was shot down by a sniper early....LOL. Also the award for best free throw percentage was given to Justin Knox. He was 80% on the year. The players laughed at the number of attempts he took. Coach Phillip Pearson said "It doesn't matter how many you took Justin, the fact is--you made them". The whole team got a kick out of this.

One thing I got a kick out of was that CMG announced Wendell Hudson as the new women's basketball coach. He told Hudson: "The pressure is on now buddy". LOL, yeah he's one to talk about pressure. :)

All in all it was a good night. Good to see the players joking and having a good time. As for Steele not being there....Who knows??? :conf2:
 
TIDE-HSV said:
I think the fact that his absence wasn't mentioned is more telling than the absence itself...
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Exactly...I'm not sure this is a good sign at all. Surely it would have been like this: "Ronald Steele, who couldn't be here tonight because of......blah, blah, blah."

Had this been said, I wouldn't have thought twice or been worried at all...
 
The saying goes, "If you don't have the horses to pull the wagon, you'll soon end up selling tires at Sears."
 
This certainly doesn't sound good, I hope Mal or someone down there has already starting thinking of candidates for next year.
 
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I guess preparing for the NBA trumps a basketball banquet for a under producing college basketball team. These guys have probably hung out for the last 365 days, so I think it's ok to miss a dinner and the handing out of frivolous trophies.

On a more serious note, why red-shirt a year only to leave immediately after the red-shirt season? I was on the Gottfried bandwagon for quite some time but this just screams of a major meltdown.
 
I don't think we're talking about the absence, if you read the posts above. What we're talking about was that he was a "non-person," so far as presentations, remarks, etc. were concerned. It's just hard to believe he was not even mentioned...
 
TIDE-HSV said:
I don't think we're talking about the absence, if you read the posts above. What we're talking about was that he was a "non-person," so far as presentations, remarks, etc. were concerned. It's just hard to believe he was not even mentioned...
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Exactly.

Let's look at it this way:

Steele has already graduated from Alabama, and has his degree. Steele has also not played in an actual game for Alabama in well over a year. Also, Steele has entered the NBA Draft. And now we have the yearly basketball banquet, and not only does he not attend, it is as if he does not even exist.

Exactly what in the hell am I suppose to rationally take from that, aside from the obvious?
 
I really like Ron Steele and I hope he stays, but I'm not going to cry if he goes to the NBA. If he wanted to play at Alabama next year he would not have announced that he was "testing the waters". Why he is leaving only us outsiders can speculate. Sooner or later they leave for something better anyway, that's the nature of college. I'm not sure I would want someone on the court playing if they didn't want to be there.

Let's go with what we've got and let the proverbial "chips" fall where they may!
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good advice, LD. To paraphrase Gene Hackman from Hoosiers: "This is our team."

And yet, Ron Steele has given so much over the last three years. Not trying to assign blame here. But at the very least, it was a significant oversight by Coach Gottfried to exclude him so completely from the festivities; at worst, it indicates a falling out between a star player and a coach whose career hangs on whether the player stays or goes.

Not good news for CMG on either front.
 
I don't think anyone should get on him for entering the draft. Honestly, every junior should enter the draft and not hire an agent. Until the NCAA changes the rules on draft camps, juniors will do this.
 
This may be a dumb question. Because I am not really that educated on the rules...

But would it be possible for Ronald Steele to transfer to another school on his own dime that may be a more stable program that gives him more exposure for the NBA assuming the workouts dont go as planned? Is this not allowed now within the NCAA rules for 5th year seniors who already have their degree?

If this were the case, I could see this as being something that cause the "rift" that would lead a coach not to acknowledge the most influential player in the decade of Bama basketball.
 
They sealed that loophole this year. He would be like anyone else with remaining eligibility transferring - he would have to sit out and he's already taken the RS year...
 
My opinion is..he will be back. This was a terrible decision on his part. No way a NBA team takes a chance on his knee with a first round pick...NO WAY. If he has issues with Gottfried, that's a different story, but for him to declare for the draft in hopes of going in the first round is a joke. He's NBA good enough, healthy, but thats still an unknown. It won't be determined by tryouts and short term workouts and NBA scouts know that. His only chance to make a NBA roster is to come back for one more year and prove his health.
 
It's really not a bad decision at all until he decides to stay in the draft. And even then, he has his degree, if he feels he's ready for the NBA, I don't think we can blame him that much.

That said I think it will be better financially in the long term if he stays another year.
 
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