"Unfortunate situation at Auburn"

[AUdmd07 2]

Found this on ECU's athletic website.

http://www.ecupirates.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/032310aak.html

What "unfortunate situation at Auburn" was Coach Roy Williams referring to? The fact we asked to go the NCAA one time in 6 years? Or that we asked to have at least 1 true center in 6 years? Or that we asked to recruit some of the best in state talent?

I am glad we have new energy around the basketball program and not a ton of lame excuses from Coach Lebo! War Damn Barbee!

[Mikey 16,566]

That's an ECU site, so they are hardly going to be objective. Maybe Williams's "unfortunate situation" is that his boy Lebo couldn't recruit to Auburn and couldn't win here. Who knows?

[LegalEagle 22]

This article appears to provide a contrasting viewpoint:

http://blog.al.com/kevin-scarbinsky/2010/03/scarbinsky_auburns_tony_barbee.html

"The new coach would have his hands full because Jeff Lebo left the program in the same questionable shape it was mired in for much of his tenure.

There’s only one proven returning player in shooting guard Frankie Sullivan, the lone returning starter. Un­less Barbee signs a floor leader this spring or one transfers in, there may be no more than one scholarship point guard on the entire roster next season.

And that six-man recruit­ing class Lebo signed last fall? It’s the perfect example of quantity over quality.

No one will mistake that class for Kentucky’s 2009 spring harvest of DeMarcus Cousins, John Wall and Eric Bledsoe. There’s a consen­sus among recruiters that two of Auburn’s signees can play in the SEC, two of them don’t appear to be SEC-cali­ber players and two may not make it into school because of academics.

Which may be a blessing.

If every player on the ros­ter who could return did, and every signee also showed up, Barbee wouldn’t have a scholarship to give this spring.

And then, because there won’t be a single schol­arship senior on his first Au­burn roster, Barbee theore­tically wouldn’t have a scholarship to give next year.

It’s a shocking case of ros­ter mismanagement by the old coach."

Sounds like a Tale of Two Coaches, huh?

For the record, I'm more familiar with the latter.

[rtftiger 40]

There's nothing wrong with a guy backing one of his buddies. Williams could have said much worse about us.

[AUloggerhead 2,227]

There's nothing wrong with a guy backing one of his buddies. Williams could have said much worse about us.

I've got nothing against Lebo. He's an excellent coach and a fine person. The problem was he couldn't recruit enough players to AU in the 6 years he was here. His attrition rate rivaled that of CTT, which is saying a lot. Good luck to him at ECU.

[jared52 4,354]

I'm surprised Roy Williams knew we had a basketball team.

[tiger88 934]

I'm surprised Roy Williams knew we had a basketball team.

That is a good one jared!