Alabama Will Be Hard to Beat This Year (edited)

[yabbadabbadoo_rivals213851]

Alabama is a sleeping basketball giant. They have the money (and that's the biggest factor nowadays) to keep getting bigtime recruits and coaches. Now, assembling all that talent still requires coaching and a bit of luck to win a championship. But, Bama has a lot of the pieces to make a move. A few very successful seasons and the NBA will be coming after Oates though. Will he ever make that jump?

No they’re not
Gotta disagree

 

[IYAOYAS1]

Is that the Alabama that lost by 40 in Rupp arena to a guy people say cant coach a lick?

You bitter, bro?

 

[AFKY_Blue_RedsBengals]

I mean he's at Alabama, not UK. No one is winning a title at Alabama n basketball.

I can see Oats and Alabama winning it all this season. Definitely one of the favorites.

 

[Bluefaithful]

Alabama better get their arse together against Arkansa St. So many people don't know crap about teams beginning of the year.

Alabama 6-30 from 3 pointers with 2:52 left. Impressive

 

[Runt#1969]

I'm not completely ready to mail the title to Bama, or Duke, or Kansas, or to the Zags, Houston ... nope.

this year I just want to see us play the games.

THEN see where we end up. We got the fresh start I've been insisting we needed for years. Now we make the best of the bed we made.

Go Big Blue !

 

[akaukswoosh]

Ark State was an awful 6 for 28 from behind the arc but still stayed in the game for a long time. Bama looked really mortal last night.

 

[Blueworld_3.0]

Coaching matters a lot in basketball. Look at what Donovan did at Florida. A guy like Oats would do this at any school. He's gonna coach them like Hurley does UCONN. Yikes.

I think Hurley is a better in-game coach but, generally your comparison is valid.

 

[Cowtown Cat]

Yup, we were on fire that game. Same coach took that idea of running and gunning and slowed it to a Mitchell crawl when it mattered.

Always did late in the season! Cost us at least a couple titles.