SEC Basketball: “not good”
So says ex-Auburn coach Sonny Smith. He also comments on Bama’s destruction of MSU last Tuesday”
“If you saw the game (against Mississippi State) Tuesday night, you saw one point guard who was totally under control, and you saw one (MSU’s Gary Ervin) who was running wild on the street, and you saw what happened,” Smith said.
As for the final score (98-49), Smith intimated the Bama coach Mark Gottfried may have run up the score on the Bulldogs and their coach, Rick Stansbury. And it had little to do with the hard foul committed by Shane Power on the Tide’s Evan Brock midway through the second half, when Alabama was up by 40, 72-32.
“That was all about recruiting — it had nothing to do with the hard foul,” Smith said. “These two teams just kill each other in recruiting. First, Alabama gets Moe Williams out of Mississippi, then Stansbury gets Mario Austin away from Gottfried, and there were accusations and innuendoes on both sides.
“These two teams battle each other every year for the same players, and they just don’t like each other. I know how they feel. I used to feel the same way about Norm Sloan when he was at Florida. I tried to run the score up on him whenever I could, but my assistants would grab me and tell me I needed to get (the starters) out of there.”
My only question about what happened Tuesday is how petty would Gottfried seemed had Kennedy or Shelton gotten hurt late in the second half? Oh well, this isn’t football and stuff like that rarely happens.
