After Alabama was shown to not even be a football school anymore this past January, it looks like the Crimson Tide are looking to move into the basketball realm.
According to CBS Sports' Gary Parish, Alabama is poised to make a Godfather offer to Wichita State's coach, Gregg Marshall.
The sources said Alabama's administration is determined, one way or another, to make a big hire to replace Anthony Grant in response to Auburn employing Bruce Pearl last March, and Marshall is essentially alone atop the wish-list. Alabama cannot offer Marshall great basketball tradition, school officials understand. But one source said they plan to pitch "piles of money, an athletic department with a culture of winning and every resource he needs to compete with anybody on a national level." It's possible football coach Nick Saban could eventually be involved in what would amount to a high-profile recruitment.
"Alabama is gonna go big," one source said.
Dah! Look at SEC basketball, y'all. It's so dang cute.
Here's to hoping Marshall stonewalls Alabama.
