W hat was to be a special Alabama basketball season came tumbling down with an 86-77 loss to Auburn today in Tuscaloosa. The victory was the latest casualty in a basketball season spinning out of control. What began with a pre-season Top-10 ranking and visions of the Final Four is an unmitigated disaster.
Coach Mark Gottfried’s stock is at an all-time low. The season’s crash was as spectacular as a Wall Street bloodbath. The question remaining for Gottfried will this crash be like the crash of October 1987 (where the market quickly recovers) or will it be a meltdown like 1929?
To paraphrase a great man, Never in the annals of history has a team with so much talent, achieved so little.
Auburn had lost 21 of its last 22 games at Coleman Coliseum and hadn’t won there since 1999.–according to the Associated Press.
Auburn’s lunatic fringe displays its hypocrisy
The Never To Yield Foundation is right—all Alabama fans are rude and evil. We are sinners. It is too bad [...]