Hard on everyone including the fans...
This is my personal opinion and nothing else. I think Coach Grant has now made his point, and for the sake of the season and fans he needs to consider letting Mitchell and Green return to the team. Regardless, of what Coach decides I will support him, but just for arguments sake let me represent the other side.
The fans have suffered enough. We've watched two games that made us sad, mad, think the players are bad, and had enough of all this. If Tony Mitchell and Green haven't learned their lesson by now they never will. And if they can't learn the lesson who are you now punishing? I'd submit that it is the fans, who live and die, with every game, and they don't deserve this in any form or fashion. Play them or kick them off the team. This is like being in a room with a bobcat. Just shoot the gun so one of us can find some relief. There are a lot of people who pay thousands of dollars in tickets and donations to watch basketball. Coach, you do not live in a vacuum. Those people have as stake in this as well as you.
You know the only thing worst than a bad seat at a basketball game? An expensive bad seat. And if you are watching the Tide play right now you are seeing bad. It isn't fair for fans to be punished with a bad product. The point has been made. The players have been chastized. They have been publically humilated. They deserved it. I know one thing about Americans - we are quick to forgive. Coach Grant needs to find some balance here and if continues to suspend these guys he becomes the bad guy.
That would be pretty much what I would say if I felt strongly enough to really disagree with the coach. The team knows who is in charge. Now is time to forgive but not forget. If you re-instate the players tomorrow the season may not be lost. If you continue down this path you will be heaping more blame on the players than they may deserve. When you won't release the details to the public it is not good. If these actions of the players occured in public then their is no expectation of privacy. If this punishment is a written policy of the University of Alabama then that is public record as well. This isn't grades. I have no problem protecting the privacy of grades, although a good case could be made for making them public. Players are public figures. I'm not sure that these players have any expectation of privacy. Okay, there is my argument.
Grant will do what he feels is best for his team and the players. The line that Grant is taking is as narrow as a razor's edge. I'm going to continue to support Grant in his decision. There are many others who will not support him as the embarrassing losses keep getting larger. At the University of Alabama the only thing that matters in the long run is winning. Coach should remember that. Two games for Green, three for Mitchell should be enough for anyone.
The fans have suffered enough. We've watched two games that made us sad, mad, think the players are bad, and had enough of all this. If Tony Mitchell and Green haven't learned their lesson by now they never will. And if they can't learn the lesson who are you now punishing? I'd submit that it is the fans, who live and die, with every game, and they don't deserve this in any form or fashion. Play them or kick them off the team. This is like being in a room with a bobcat. Just shoot the gun so one of us can find some relief. There are a lot of people who pay thousands of dollars in tickets and donations to watch basketball. Coach, you do not live in a vacuum. Those people have as stake in this as well as you.
You know the only thing worst than a bad seat at a basketball game? An expensive bad seat. And if you are watching the Tide play right now you are seeing bad. It isn't fair for fans to be punished with a bad product. The point has been made. The players have been chastized. They have been publically humilated. They deserved it. I know one thing about Americans - we are quick to forgive. Coach Grant needs to find some balance here and if continues to suspend these guys he becomes the bad guy.
That would be pretty much what I would say if I felt strongly enough to really disagree with the coach. The team knows who is in charge. Now is time to forgive but not forget. If you re-instate the players tomorrow the season may not be lost. If you continue down this path you will be heaping more blame on the players than they may deserve. When you won't release the details to the public it is not good. If these actions of the players occured in public then their is no expectation of privacy. If this punishment is a written policy of the University of Alabama then that is public record as well. This isn't grades. I have no problem protecting the privacy of grades, although a good case could be made for making them public. Players are public figures. I'm not sure that these players have any expectation of privacy. Okay, there is my argument.
Grant will do what he feels is best for his team and the players. The line that Grant is taking is as narrow as a razor's edge. I'm going to continue to support Grant in his decision. There are many others who will not support him as the embarrassing losses keep getting larger. At the University of Alabama the only thing that matters in the long run is winning. Coach should remember that. Two games for Green, three for Mitchell should be enough for anyone.
The fact is, neither one of these players will be here next year. As long as they both know what they need to do to be reinstated, I see no reason for us as fans to know what that is. If they do what they need to do, they will be back. If they don't, they won't. That's all I need to know. Knowing won't win us one game. And as for releasing what they have done, Coach Grant has already done that. Conduct detrimental to the team for Mitchell, a violation of team rules for Green.
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