Armchair Talking Head

The Tide pulled off a win in a sloppy, offensively sluggish game tonight.  Demetrius Jemison had a huge night offensively with 19 points.  The most impressive thing was our defense.  Namely the perimeter D.  We held the Hogs to just 3 of 21 from behind the arc and to a FG % of 36.  Senario Hillman pulled of some SICK dunks yet again.

What does this mean?

Not much.  Gottfried did seem to care a little (note the jumping and crowd pumping late in the game), but I hold that he’s a fairweather coach.  He only seems to get into it when is players perform well.  Good coaches’ players react to them, not vice versa.  Will Mal give him another year?  I think so.  3 million bucks is what a buyout of CMG’s contract would take, and I just don’t know if the basketball program is worth that much to the powers that be.

As for the team, they head to Oxford on Saturday, then at red hot Butch Pierre led LSU on Wednesday.  Those are toss ups.  Win out and show up in the SEC tourney, we may be looking NIT.

The last home game is March 8 against Vandy for Senior Night.  That will almost undoubtedly be a loss.