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Apparently was just tweeted by Cecil.


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CRAP!!!





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Well, so much for depth under the basket.



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No more excuses for Coach Grant, even if the whole team comes down with malaria, diphtheria, & lice, he has to win significantly this year.



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There has been a lot of rumors CAG told him his scholarship might not be available. CAG is still trying to get one more player.

Jacobs has been a disappointment since his freshmen year. He can score but he does not play defense or rebound. We have three good big guys in Hale, Taylor and Kessens. Cooper, Garrett and Norris are all 6-7 and can rebound. We will be alright.

Jacobs did not leave. He was let go.

You are putting a whole lot of faith in untested players, let's hope it works out.


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I am ready to try someone new. Jacobs is slow, lazy and only plays on the offensive end. We have better options this year. You make it sound like we just lost Erwin Dudley.

http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/13/junior-forward-nick-jacobs-wont-return-to-alabama-program/

Pudding, meet proof.

Yep.  ;)

We lost a senior with great potential but he would not work hard and use it. I was hoping he had grown up, I guess not.


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Guess this kind of puts a kink in your plan of having Jacobs as a major contributor this coming season?

Last year should have been his last year.  He got a do over.  

I really think if there was a viable candidate available Grant is not in Tuscaloosa this season.  

If he is fired after this year nobody can say that he was not given every chance he deserved, and more.

Contract, or not.  Board of Trustees could buy him out from their personal accounts.  Money is not really a problem.

So many other smaller schools with less attendance, less money, and less conference exposure competing and succeeding at the D1 NCAA level.  

In the mean time Grant continues to flounder and his supporters make lists of excuses.

Who recruited him?  Who offered him a scholarship?

Correct me if I am wrong.  Have Grant's "best" years not relied heavily on Gottfried's recruits?

What is the point of your 100% negative post. Are you saying Grant should have kept an under performing senior with a poor work ethic and discipline problems?

This is so sad but sometimes you have to release a player to hopefully get better and brighter. By brighter, I mean Basket Ball wise. It is over and done, no enjoyment there but let's see who we can come up with now that plays BB on both ends of the floor. Agreed? RTR!

I agree about him getting a sixth year based on almost no achievements. I disagree about a viable candidate being available. There are several coaches worth looking at. good point about his recruits, but I think it's an issue of not developing talent.


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Giving my $0.02 and posing a question (Grant's success w/ Gottfried's players v. Grant's success w/ Grant's players) for thought that also provides perspective on Grant's tenure (diminishing returns on investment.

That would be like a university keeping a coach who continues to lose more games than the previous year and whose team regresses while coaches at smaller less advantaged schools excel against the same competition.

Nobody would want that.


Circumstances do not always lend themselves to qualified candidates being viable options.

The rumor is he flunked out of school. Spring semester grades were recently posted so that could explain the timing.

First of all, I appreciate your posts. We need folks who have different opinions and aren't always pumping sunshine in the middle of a tornado. We have a wide-range of folks and opinions here, so don't be gun-shy & keep posting your thoughts.


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Nick Jacobs will transfer to Georgia Tech. He will have to sit out a year and have one year of eligibility remaining.

He is from the Atlanta area. I hope being close to home will help him get his head on straight. He was full of potential and appeared to have a high ceiling when he came to Alabama. Maybe some of the blame goes to CAG and the staff for not helping reach his potential but it appeared to me he was slow, over weight, lazy and not willing to do the hard work.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/06/former_alabama_forward_nick_ja_1.html#incart_river

Haha! Yeah, Ga. Tech will be much easier for him academically.  :lol2:

Good point. Maybe he has some of those tutors from North Carolina.


 :D

That was a low blow, very cold, and right on the money (pardon the pun). Well, played, sir.