Anthony Grant is a Flyer and I respect but there's no way he would be considered if he wasn't an alum. He did worse than Mark Gottfried the guy he took over for at Bama. Gottfried made 5 straight tourneys and elite 8. Grant played in a weak SEC and made the tourney once in six years. He finished 5 games over .500 for his career at Alabama in a conference where the consensus was it was down
A good comparison for Anthony is Dennis Felton who was just hired at Cleveland St. Felton is 53 and Grant is 50 and they both had a similar career trajectory.
Anthony got his start at VCU and had three good seasons there. Felton took over a similar program at Western Kentucky and rebuilt it vs inheriting an NBA player in Eric Maynor and a good situation like Grant. Felton took Western the NCAA's three years in a row and accepted the Georgia after the 02-03 season.
Both Anthony Grant and Felton spent six seasons in the SEC and each had a NCAA tourney appearance. Felton had 2 NIT trips and Grant 2 & was let go before his 3rd.
Felton like Grant went to the NBA after getting fired from the SEC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis...oaching_record
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthon...oaching_record
I'm not sure how anyone could like at Grant's track record and think he'd continue an upward trajectory for the program