BOL Round Table

Let me first say i'm not a big bball fan. Having said that, I was traveling in my car and happened to pick up the game with Bama up 17 late first half. I needed to run in Lowes and pick up some things and just remember saying to myself as I got out of the car that it doesn't matter the big lead because it's bball and the other team will chip away at the lead and we will win or lose by a couple at the end. Spent some time shopping and when I turn the radio back on we win with last second shot. I know my attitude toward this sport will garner a few down votes but just had to share my thoughts. Can't wait for football!

I would agree if I thought the naysayers were being heard, but I know that CAG feels the support from the ones that matter. I don't think he is the least bit concerned about what a few uninformed posters say. As long as he has Mal and others behind him, he will stay. He has had some bad bounces, with lost recruits and a couple who did not buy in, but he is building a foundation that he can win with. I also do not see Coach Grant as one who wants to leave something unfinished. The more critics he has, I think only strengthens his resolve.

Your point regarding UAB was excellent!

20 wins in not meaningless. What if he was 10-20? Would that be meaningless. Of course not. He would be gone. So, 20 wins is very meaningful and he can carry that on his resume easily to a better job than Alabama BB. You CAG haters need to get real. He is a very good coach IMO.

Especially on the offensive end of the court!! We need more shooters and movement.

Well I don't know Mike Davis personally, but I did listen to him as a speaker at the Birmingham Tip-Off club the year we had fired Gottfried, but hadn't hired anyone yet. UAB's athletic director, a childhood friend of Mike, introduced him before Mike's speech. Mike speech basically was a sell job on wanting the Bama job, Mike even suggested what salary he would need to come to Tuscaloosa. He did that all while his athletic director and friend was sitting next to the podium Mike was speaking from, most of us were shocked by what Mike was doing. Afterwards as we were all leaving the building all I heard constantly from Alabama boosters that were walking around me that there was not way in H*ll Mike Davis would ever be our Head Coach at Alabama.

Now maybe that day was just an isolated scumbag incident in Mike Davis's life, but I have never forgot it and it has forever tainted my opinion of Mike Davis as a man.

FYIW, while I am a Bama fan, I am a UAB alum. I am glad that Mike Davis is not longer HC at UAB. He couldn't recruit high school talent at all, and was constantly stealing other teams players and getting them to transfer. Also, Mike didn't care one once about if his players got a degree, the players grades at UAB were beyond awful and the classwork player support system at UAB was a joke while he was there.

I'm not making judgements based on rumors.

Needed a good laugh today. Thanks.

If you aren't in the tournament, the number of wins is meaningless, IMO.

20, 10, 5, or however many wins we have don't mean a thing unless you make the field.

I can tell you that I am very comfortable at the moment in not worrying about losing Grant to any kind of program in basketball.