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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 personally like Mike Davis, but I doubt we hire somebody who was affiliated with Alabama again. I think we should look into hiring Jeff Van Gundy from ESPN, I mean he has been out of coaching for a couple years, but he is not a bad coach ;-). I say we go get the Butler coach, I've believed that for several years, but Mal Moore won't do it.
 
BamaBackerBill said:
1. He was a great assistant for years at Arkansas during there "glory" days.
2. He took over a UAB program that had fallen pretty far down, and took them
to 3 NCAA tourney appearances in 4 years.
3. He has taken over a Missouri program that had a ton of turmoil around it
thanks to the cheating of the last coach (Quinn Snyder I think?) and had
to clean some things up. His first two years weren't that good, but this
year they are 18-4 and are NCAA tourney bound.
4. He's a very good to great recruiter and he knows the state of Alabama well
and has great connections/relationships (from what I hear) with high school
coaches/players within the state.
5. Coaches an exciting brand of basketball to watch and with great success.
6. Has a proven track record and has had great success as an assistant and
as a head coach. Younger than Tubby (would stay longer than Tub) with
similar results in the early stage of his head coaching career and more
experienced leading a major program than Grant (would also stay longer
than AG).

The fact is Tubby, Grant, or Anderson would all three be very good choices. I just feel like Anderson would be the best fit for Bama and I believe he is a very good coach. Plus he definitely wants to be at Bama which is always a plus.

:)

rtr
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great post... i would love to have anderson
 
Re: Anderson...

CNS is practically a fanatic about academics. If my memory serves, CMA had, at one time, a very low grad rate at UAB. I'll go back and look again, but I remember thinking at the time that his attitude towards scholastics and the records of some of the kids he signed ruled him out for our UA position when it became available. I guess I'm not a "win at all costs guy." Neither is CNS...
 
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TIDE-HSV said:
Re: Anderson...

CNS is practically a fanatic about academics. If my memory serves, CMA had, at one time, a very low grad rate at UAB. I'll go back and look again, but I remember thinking at the time that his attitude towards scholastics and the records of some of the kids he signed ruled him out for our UA position when it became available. I guess I'm not a "win at all costs guy." Neither is CNS...
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Words of wisdom. I don't think CNS is going to allow the Bball program to become an albatross for the AD. Losing on the court or in the classroom are both negatives, and the Capstone doesn't need either. Think of the age old saying about one bad apple. Players who come just "to ball" very often times end up in the non-sports sections of the evening news and the stories are rarely positive. Anybody think NS wants his players hanging out with that type of character(s)? I'm doubting it.
 
dWarriors88 said:
Just a quick run down, who's it gonna be?
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honestly, i have no idea. first i was thinking Grant, but now people are saying he'll be at Georgia and if he doesn't go there, he can take his pick of any job that has or will come open. it sounds like Anderson's a no-go. i guess Tubby Smith's a possibility, we'll just have to wait and see. from what i've read TIDE-HSV is by far the most knowledgeable on the situation.
 
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fwiw, finebaum said today that he has first hand knowledge that Bobby Knight is interested in the job... more than the Georgia job.
 
We need to open up the checkbook and get Anthony Grant. Bob Knight will put on a good press conference but he is not the fix in the long term for our bb program. His personality and demeanor would also not be agood fit--he would rub a lot of us the wrong way....
 
Bob Knight is almost as old as I. 'Nuff said. :D I must say that I've heard some remarks which make me believe that Anderson may not have been so definitively ruled out as I had thought. I don't agree with them, but I felt that I should relay that...
 
TIDE-HSV said:
Bob Knight is almost as old as I. 'Nuff said. :D I must say that I've heard some remarks which make me believe that Anderson may not have been so definitively ruled out as I had thought. I don't agree with them, but I felt that I should relay that...
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So Earle, that means Coach Knight has the vigor of a man half his age tempered by the wisdom of his years, and can still climb mountains that would break a younger man?

Oh, he can also re-shingle his roof? Or at least make a valiant effort?:biggrin:
 
Oh, he can also re-shingle his roof?
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I did get that roof reshingled - just before I had the left rotator cuff done. Of course, I also popped my left long-head biceps tendon. :mad2: I still have the coil roofing nail gun I bought - the car port and woodshed need reshingling... :)
 
I say we go with Knight, take the 3-5 years he can give us, and during that time be training up an assistant that can take his place when he leaves ( a head coach in waiting if you will...). Why not? I posted in another thread how Knight gets everything out of the players that xCMG didn't (play hard, develops them each year, and runs an offense with motion). xCMG obviously didn't develop assistant coaches either, so prehaps a coach that could do this as well would be a benefit. Just my two cents...
 
Knight would kill our recruiting.......I know I wouldn't let my son play for him....

How'd that "Coach in Waiting" idea go over at TT?

The Pat Knight coached Red Raiders are 11-10
and
We all know how Indiana turned out

Not sure I'd want to go down that road if we don't have to......
 
CajunCrimson said:
Knight would kill our recruiting.......I know I wouldn't let my son play for him....

How'd that "Coach in Waiting" idea go over at TT?

The Pat Knight coached Red Raiders are 11-10
and
We all know how Indiana turned out

Not sure I'd want to go down that road if we don't have to......
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If I had sons, I would love them to play for B Knight. Discipline is a good thing. Just ask Nick Saban.
 
bamacon said:
Not necessarily. That said, I just do not see the AD or the University tolerating a situation where none of the players graduate. I know UA could get him if they wanted him. He would have even gone to the Barn.
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Just out of curiosity how do you know that Bama could get him if they want him? I could see him leaving Missouri due to the lure of going home but overall it would be a lateral move. It seems like he might have interest but that it'd be far from a slam dunk too.

Secondly, I've read various posts talking about Mike Anderson and academics. To my knowledge virtually all of the guys that have exhausted their eligibility at Missouri have graduated. This includes his nephew DeMarre Carroll who is a senior on this year's team and has already graduated.

If Bama could get him I think he'd be a good hire. He encountered a huge mess in Columbia initially. This is the first year he really has had the opportunity to coach a team almost entirely full of his recruits. With 7 newcomers, 6 of which play an integral part of this team he currently sits at 18-4 overall with a 5-2 record in the Big XII.
 
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