Thanks @Delta for closing my flight 5 minutes early. Plane still at the gate. I get there exactly 5 minutes late because of your connecting flight. In the same terminal and no one bothered to check or cared.
@BlueGrass_BBN@NextRoundLive No players who have played in the pros, anywhere, should be eligible. Once that door was opened for some, it was opened for all.
@Greg_Byrne Thank you Stillman for picking up where the Million $$ band was “too tired”. Meanwhile I’m sitting by people that attended the game but made it a priority to get back. Let Stillman play the SEC and NCAA Tournament.
During his tenure coaching @AlabamaMBB, Winfrey “Wimp” Sanderson entertained fans with a scowl that intimidated the most veteran officials all while donned in his trademark plaid sportscoat.
Today the coach, who made plaid as engrained with Alabama basketball as houndstooth is with Alabama football, celebrates another birthday.
And while @wimpsanderson1 declined offering his actual age, he provided this point of reference instead.
“You could take two SEC coaches, add their ages together and I’m still older,” Sanderson joked earlier this week.
However, these last few months have been some of the most difficult in his life with the passing of his beloved wife, Annette, earlier this spring. The high school sweethearts had been married for 67 years, and she traveled with him on a coaching adventure that started in Carbon Hill and ended in Little Rock, Ark.
Perhaps the biggest tribute to Sanderson’s career is the number of former players and staff that returned for the funeral services of Annette in early May.
After settling in Birmingham following his retirement from coaching, Sanderson made the decision to move one more time this past summer and returned to Tuscaloosa to be closer to his youngest son, Barry, and his family.
The two still produce and host their radio show “Inside the Locker Room” on @Tide1009 every weekday morning from 7 – 9 a.m.
Sanderson coached one year at Carbon Hill High School then joined Hayden Riley’s staff at Alabama in 1960. He remained an assistant for Riley and later C.M. Newton, before being named the 16th Alabama head coach in 1980.
During his 12-year run when Coleman Coliseum became known as the “Plaid Palace,” the Crimson Tide won five SEC Tournament championships, one SEC regular-season championship and reached the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA Tournament six times.
His legacy is renewed every season when the “Crimson Chaos” president is sworn in and bestowed a plaid sportscoat.