Originally Posted by JimBo
It wasn't all that long ago when the anti-Grant crowd here we're singing the praises of Johnson.
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Originally Posted by EliteEight
Boy, that is true. AG had a better coaching record than Avery Johnson at Alabama. 'Bama is just a hard place to coach with a lot of success. Mark Gottfried had a couple of very successful seasons there (8 loss seasons) but he then immediately regressed back to 17-18 win seasons. Gottfried probably starting his impermissible actions at 'Bama. "He's always been a great recruiter".
Alabama just had 2k fans show up for the NIT loss. Their arena holds 15k. I think AG is pretty happy with how everything turned out  .
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Mark Gottfried went to 5 straight tourneys, an elite 8 and had them ranked number one in the country for a stretch of time.
It's a football school but so is every non UK SEC school. If you're a good coach you'll win there. Aurburn is one of the worst power conference schools, they hire Bruce Pearl and they win.
As bad as Avery was there, in a much harder SEC than Anthony had, he won a game in tourney, won 2 games in a conference tourney and had a first round pick. All things AG couldn't do
Alabama has the second most SEC tourney titles all time behind UK. This is the same program that put out Latrell Sprewell, Robert Horry, Hollywood Robinson, Mo Williams, Derrick McKey, Antonio McDyess, Gerald Wallace,
Anthony Grant was the first coach at Alabama since Hayden Riley (1960-68) to
1. Not win two consecutive games in the SEC tourney
2. Have a first round pick
3. Win a game in the NCAA tourney
4. Make two consecutive NCAA tourneys
