re: Is Anthony Grant the best Alabama can do?

Maybe Grant is doing as well as anyone could with Bama; if you look at the last 40-odd years, there's not too much of a higher level achieved by anyone.

LSU historically is a better program. Brown had a slew of teams that went to the tournament and had a number of All-Americans; Brady followed that with a stretch of conference MVPs and Freshmen of the Year guys who led to more tournament appearances. Johnson was a terrible fit, but Jones might be following the same script Brown and Brady did.

Bama best has usu been bubble teams. You've never had the great "we shoulda won that year" team like we did with Shaq and CJ, instead you had teams with Horry that you were happy at 20 wins and an invite.

If you look at schools that can be great at both football and basketball, it seems like Fla is the only one in the SEC (and that's fairly recent for both cases, their history in both is pretty mediocre). Arky and LSU would be the next level (LSU having the edge in football and Arky in basketball, both due to titles but not much otherwise), and then you get Bama, UGA, Tenn, Auburn etc that have flashes of both but never consistent in basketball.