His biggest problem is in Athens. That’s all his employers care about.
He has a top 3 FB a program, a top 15 hoops program and is about to have a better baseball coach than we do. Unfortunately he is doing ok.
Can always count on somebody to try and be 6pack cool and come in and argue a point like this. Bama's AD was great when Byrne got there. Now it's mired in scandal and the sunsetting career of a legendary coach. It isn't hard to see this.
Bamas basketball program was not good until Byrne hire Oats. The FB program (all they care about) is still great. Thats all anyone at Bama cares about. They dont give a rip about baseball or the coach. And they definitely didn’t care a star player provided a gun to a murdered. But they will definitely have a better coach than us soon. Hell maybe our coach is gambling on baseball.
I don't hold leaving for another job against him. He was brought in to do a job and did it very well. Stricklin, however, can get ******.
Bama Hoops had a really good season. They are not a top 15 hoops program. In fact, they would probably need to repeat the previous season about 10 more times over the next 15 years to be in that conversation.
I don't think anybody is mad at him. But I can laugh when those 'better' jobs don't end up so much better.
I think it's funny how many folks here knew Mullen at Florida was going to be a shitshow. The recruiting disparity alone wasn't going to cut it there. Florida fans didn't want to listen and right now they're feeling the repercussions.
Yep and he was the perfect coach for us. He had a great recruiting strategy for here, and he could also get away with just being a small time head coach and called plays.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but I was absolutely on record stating that Mullen taking the Florida job was a stupid move on his part. 8-4 at MSU eventually gets you a statue, but 8-4 at Florida gets you fired.
No sarcasm. I, along with yourself and many others, laughed at the notion that he would enjoy any sort of long-term success there and knew he was very likely going to be gone within 3-4 years and we were all proven right.
The local Bama fans I know (which is virtually everybody I know) got very interested in basketball when they were ranked #1 for a while, and to a man defended Oats' handling of the Miller affair. When they got eliminated in the Sweet 16 I never heard another word from them.
They sure seem like a top 15 program right now.
If you can find an Alabama fan that actually went to school there, they are generally pretty decent fans and act ok. However, the typical every day Alabama sidewalk fans are mostly just redneck trash and act accordingly. There are occasionally fans that don’t follow this pattern, but not many. My Dad was in Shriners and they worked State home football games for a number of years serving as ushers as a fund raising activity. He always told me that they had more trouble with the Alabama fans than they had with everyone else combined. This would have even mostly during the 1980’s and I think my Dad served for about 10 years.
Fair enough. When I hear the term 'program', I tend to think of things in longer than 3 year terms. If Bama can sustain that sort of success for 10+ years, then I think we get to start talking about them as a top 'program'. Right now, I just think they're on a good run.
Yeah, that is definitely another way that I consider someone to be a top 15 program, so I agree. UNC was trash this season, but last season they played for the championship. There is more to being a topX program than just recent results.
