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Wish List Poll...

Is this an appropiate wish list?

  • Mike Anderson

    Votes: 40 23.0%

  • Mike Davis

    Votes: 14 8.0%

  • Mark Few

    Votes: 11 6.3%

  • Anthony Grant

    Votes: 58 33.3%

  • Tom Izzo

    Votes: 21 12.1%

  • Tubby Smith

    Votes: 23 13.2%

  • Steve Wojciechowsk

    Votes: 7 4.0%
  • Total voters
    174
I want someone who has been a head coach at another school and has shown success. Wojo at Duke is a good suggestion but he has no head coaching experience. He may one day be a good HC but I do not want him experimenting at Bama. We need someone with proven experience. I voted for Mark Few and I think he would come if we show him the money. Gonzaga has been good to him and he has had success. I would be satisfied with Tubby Smith or Anthony Grant though.
 
  • Mike Davis will not even get a sniff.
  • Ditto for Mike Anderson ( I would not touch anyone who came out of NR's crew)
  • Scratch off any guys that do not have HC experience (Alabama is not in a position where someone can learn as they go-whoever gets the gig will have their work cut out for them)
  • Izzo will retire a Spartan
  • Few would be very difficult to pull from the West Coast
  • Tubby is making 3 mill. per. I am also not sure his style and personality are what the PTB think Bama's basketball needs right now.
I would surmise that Anthony Grant is way up on the leaderboard (currently), but by making a move now I think Alabama is showing that basketball is an important cog of the athletic department. Too bad that wasn't the case earlier. This also gives the university something that I feel is vital in finding the right fit, TIME. My hope is they use it well. If a big name coach is lured it is because Alabama is making a SERIOUS commitment to the program. The band-aid that they put on Coleman isn't anywhere close to what they will have to pony-up if they are going to truly compete in the SEC in the years to come.
 
Anthony Grant. Florida's Ad has proved that he knows his coaches. He was going to take CBD place. I always love the way CRP's wildcats in the 90s played. The Gators mirrored those teams. I like pressing defenses and use all 15 players, do whatever it takes to win. But the one thing I love about CRP and CBD are their
coaching during the games. They can call a timeout and change the whole game
in thirty seconds. I remember a Kentucky game with CTS....he got mad with his
starting five and he replaced them with the second five. The second five was playing great and after 10 minutes he put back the first five.....then the butt whipping began. CRP's Family Tree!
 
I would be flat amazed to see either Davis or Anderson, for some similar, some different, reasons. I think you can look elsewhere...
 
Anthony Grant VCU or Jim Larranaga (George Mason). Tubby Smith wouldn't be bad either.
 
Im leaning towards Grant...

Few is not coming so might as well forget that one. I dont have any info, but I listen to alot of west coast sports and a whole lot of Duck and Beavers stuff. Few is waiting on the Oregon Duck job to open and he'll be the only one interviewed and hired. There moving into a new arena soon and Mr. Kent is not a fan favorite here in Oregon, but Few is and he is at another school in another state. Thats my bet right there, Few to Oregon in the next year or two!!!!!

RTR
 
Its a pipe dream, but for my money its Rick Pitino or John Calipari

The SEC is so down right now and could easily be dominated by proven winner like either of these two. Putting one of these two together with Saban would create like megasuper power of coaches. I could see where Pitino would be tired of fighting with the talent heavy Big East and this could be an intruiging move of trying to take a football school to unprecedented heights.

As for Calipari, he can't achieve anymore then he already has at Memphis and quite frankly I could see where he would be tired of fighting for respect in non conference games and having such a let down in conference play because UM's conference is so weak.

Again, its a dream but this thread is a wish list, right???
 
i like Tubby Smith and Anthony Grant, and am not really sure who i would rather have. a Tubby Smith era at Bama would be equivalent to a Bob Knight era at Texas Tech IMO. it's been 12 years since Smith won that NC, and he hasn't been that impressive his last few years. do we want a guy like him that probably doesn't have long before he decides to retire? i really don't see our program reaching new heights under him. under Tubby Smith, i see us probably making the tournament more times than not and not lasting very long in it when we do.

if we hired Smith, i see it becoming the Bowden/Paterno situation fast. you have a big name coach who is competetive but really does not have what it takes to win anymore. do we really want that or do we want to see how far this program can really go? i think that Anthony Grant would be the better hire and i could see him taking us places that Tubby Smith wouldn't.
 
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Forget Rick...he has a great recruiting class coming in and a young team this year.

John Calipari might be someone to ponder if you don't mind his New Yawk accent.

Tubby is a great coach/person but he only has been with Gophers a couple of years.

How old is Bobby Knight? The man can coach and wants to return. He would be a good fit with Coach Saban in the way they deal with the press.

I hope we talk with C M Newton and get his imput since he lives in Tuscaloosa.
 
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