Alabama Coaching Vacancy
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If you believe everything that Cal said is the truth then I have some land on Mars to sale you. When you get paid the amount of money he's making it brings on short term memory real fast. Being treated like a King in the bluegrass state will make 10 years come by like the Indy 500. Once 10 years stares him in the face he will just sign on to another 5-10 years. Why because he can and will continue to add wins to his marvelous coaching career.
Sorry, you're right. It got to the point where my post felt like it was listing every team in the SEC so I stopped. But Georgia isn't going anywhere with Fox as coach. Should be one of the best seasons we've seen from the SEC in a long time.
Heisenberg. If we win the whole thing this year Cal is here for either 3 more titles or 10 years - whichever comes first. He said he wanted to pass UCLA in titles if he could. We got by $80 million last year and if he wins it all this year he can taste it. Just think, he would be considered the best coach of all time if he wins 5 titles. Yes I know Wooden won 10 - but look at the competition today versus the Wooden era. UCLA basically had a bye to the final four every year. Many years not even half the teams in the tourney today.
Go Big Blue!
Go Big Blue!
People in Alabama don't really have a clue about hiring a basketball coach - look at who they have hired over the years. If they want a basketball coach, first thing they should do is hire Mike Pratt to consult and help with a search - I'm dead serious too!
Then Mike would make calls to Archie Miller, if that failed he should go to Shaka. One of those would take the job.
Marshall, if he leaves, it will be for a name power conference school. Stephens, if he returns to college - will be going to Duke.
Stansbury is the best name on the list they show that has a proven record.
I have mixed emotions about it, but if Archie goes to Bama and does well - we will probably be looking at UK's future.
Go Big Blue!
Then Mike would make calls to Archie Miller, if that failed he should go to Shaka. One of those would take the job.
Marshall, if he leaves, it will be for a name power conference school. Stephens, if he returns to college - will be going to Duke.
Stansbury is the best name on the list they show that has a proven record.
I have mixed emotions about it, but if Archie goes to Bama and does well - we will probably be looking at UK's future.
Go Big Blue!
Guy from JOX radio in Birmingham tweeted this yesterday: https://twitter.com/RyanBrownWJOX/status/578372671257251840
Ryan Brown @RyanBrownWJOX
Take this however you wish: Had a former SEC head coach tell me the rumor in
coaching circles is Alabama will offer Gregg Marshall $3.5M.
Cecil Hurt (Alabama
reporter for Tuscaloosa News/Tidesports.com) said money will not be an
issue as well. Basically sounds like we're gonna make Gregg Marshall say
no.
This post was edited on 3/19 1:19 PM by acp_10
Ryan Brown @RyanBrownWJOX
Take this however you wish: Had a former SEC head coach tell me the rumor in
coaching circles is Alabama will offer Gregg Marshall $3.5M.
Cecil Hurt (Alabama
reporter for Tuscaloosa News/Tidesports.com) said money will not be an
issue as well. Basically sounds like we're gonna make Gregg Marshall say
no.
This post was edited on 3/19 1:19 PM by acp_10
Doesn't really make any difference...since UAB beat ISU in the first round...they are now the predominant program in the atate, so the state board of regents (or whatever they are called) will just shut down UAB's program like they did football. Maybe then just transfer the UAB coach to Tuscaloosa.
I think Cal is serious. UK is an all consuming job. I think any Coach eventually reaches a point where they can't put in the effort all the time. Cal even said he wouldn't be Coaching into his 70's. So I think 5 more years is realistic. I look for someone within the program to take over to keep it going.
It's a bad job. Don't see how they expect to get a top tier coach. Doesn't matter who is their coach or their team, there will be more excitement about the Bama spring football game than any basketball game ever. Whoever is hired has to recruit against Calipari, Donovan, Pearl, Stallings, and Fox, and even UAB in their backyard.
I honestly don't think it matters how much money Alabama has, as weird as that is to say. The politics of that state and that university won't let a basketball coach steal one ounce of the spotlight from the football team, and even though that seems impossible all it takes is Paul Bryant Jr. getting paranoid for a program to get torpedoed. Heck, look what happened to UAB football. Bryant pretty much singlehandedly shut down that program simply because they wanted to hire Jimbo as HC when Saban wanted him as a coordinator. I just don't think Alabama will ever be allowed to care about basketball until a significant shift happens with the powers there.
Secondly, I think the Alabama job is a scary one to coaches. It's an athletic department that doesn't understand basketball, and a fanbase that's absolutely insane and happens to be one of the most clueless in our conference when it comes to any sport besides football. They're good in other sports, but that fanbase would have to be a nightmare to interact with if you're a basketball coach. They want you to win championships on one hand, but on the other hand they don't want you doing anything that might take attention away from the "real" Alabama Crimson Tide (football).
Yeah you might get a nice pay raise, but you'll also become totally irrelevant. If you remember, Anthony Grant was a hot name when they hired him. Fast forward a few years, he's probably looking at being as assistant coach somewhere next year. No matter what you do there, you'll be swallowed up by Saban and nobody will know your name. The same reason Kentucky couldn't have hired Chris Peterson or Dabo Swinney regardless of what we offered them in football is the same reason Bama won't be able to hire Marshall or Smart. It's seen as a place that's impossible to succeed because of the bright light of another sport and the fanbase/administrations obsession with that other sport.
Alabama is going to have to raid the midmajors or hire an assistant unless they want to pay a basketball coach 2.5 million a year, and the Harvey Updykes and Paul Bryant Jr.s of this world won't allow that to happen.
I think they need to go after Prohm or see if they can get Seth Greenberg out of the ESPN studio. Greenberg won some at VT and they'd probably tell you now they made a mistake by firing him. I think he's a good coach that's proven he can win at a nontraditional power. If he can play his way onto the bubble in the ACC, I think he could experience exactly the kind of success Alabama will tolerate from basketball. Bubble team, make the tournament 50% of the time, once every four or five years squeak into a Sweet 16. Anything more and you're a distraction from football. All they need is somebody to entertain them til spring practice starts, and Greenberg could do that. Prohm has more upside, but I honestly don't know how good Alabama genuinely wants to be at basketball.
Sorry for the novel, I got on a rant and couldn't stop.
Secondly, I think the Alabama job is a scary one to coaches. It's an athletic department that doesn't understand basketball, and a fanbase that's absolutely insane and happens to be one of the most clueless in our conference when it comes to any sport besides football. They're good in other sports, but that fanbase would have to be a nightmare to interact with if you're a basketball coach. They want you to win championships on one hand, but on the other hand they don't want you doing anything that might take attention away from the "real" Alabama Crimson Tide (football).
Yeah you might get a nice pay raise, but you'll also become totally irrelevant. If you remember, Anthony Grant was a hot name when they hired him. Fast forward a few years, he's probably looking at being as assistant coach somewhere next year. No matter what you do there, you'll be swallowed up by Saban and nobody will know your name. The same reason Kentucky couldn't have hired Chris Peterson or Dabo Swinney regardless of what we offered them in football is the same reason Bama won't be able to hire Marshall or Smart. It's seen as a place that's impossible to succeed because of the bright light of another sport and the fanbase/administrations obsession with that other sport.
Alabama is going to have to raid the midmajors or hire an assistant unless they want to pay a basketball coach 2.5 million a year, and the Harvey Updykes and Paul Bryant Jr.s of this world won't allow that to happen.
I think they need to go after Prohm or see if they can get Seth Greenberg out of the ESPN studio. Greenberg won some at VT and they'd probably tell you now they made a mistake by firing him. I think he's a good coach that's proven he can win at a nontraditional power. If he can play his way onto the bubble in the ACC, I think he could experience exactly the kind of success Alabama will tolerate from basketball. Bubble team, make the tournament 50% of the time, once every four or five years squeak into a Sweet 16. Anything more and you're a distraction from football. All they need is somebody to entertain them til spring practice starts, and Greenberg could do that. Prohm has more upside, but I honestly don't know how good Alabama genuinely wants to be at basketball.
Sorry for the novel, I got on a rant and couldn't stop.