Patrick Murphy Returning to UA Softball

but i like what it says so i choose to believe it

 http://dailybamablog.com/2011/06/12/patrick-murphy-officially-back-at-alabama/

Ones that refused to acknowledge his legacy, wished him nothing but ill, etc.

How long til football, again?

I’m willing to bet LSU threw a bunch of money at him, he got down there, and realized how fucked up baton rouge is. he started missing the process and a town that doesn’t smell like assholes and hot dogs, and came back. It’s human nature to be curious. If he does it again then screw ’em but for now it was a simple mistake and no harm, no foul.

After a couple days of being a bit pissed that he left for a divisional foe (I know, it’s his career), I also was thinking this may be our chance to get a big time Pac-10 coach that could get us and the SEC our first softball NC. I don’t know how to this, but my first impression matches with Todd.

perhaps we should go ahead and test the waters, as well. Tell him we’ll get back to him if our search doesn’t yield a better candidate.

Welcome back coach Murphy. I hope this little weekend dalliance with LSU makes you more committed to the Capstone than you’ve ever been. For if you should decide to even so much as dance with another partner again, a wrath of one thousand tornadoes shall be unleashed upon you. Roll Tide!

I don’t get all of the yapping and gnashing. I am elated that he is coming back. Each year the softball program gets better and stronger and I love being in the mix for a championship every year. Isn’t that what Bama is about, beginning each season knowing you have a legit chance at playing for a championship. I was heavily bummed that he left and so glad that he reconsidered! RTR

BTW, I never thought that I would get so worked up over softball….

When does a school become “your” school? Some of us went to the University of Alabama, some of us didn’t. Those of us who did generally spend two to seven years there, depending on whether we graduated early, late, at all, and also depending on grad school.

To those who say “he had no ties to Alabama (the state or the school),” I say that he’s been the softball coach at Alabama for thirteen years. As near as I can tell, that gives him more of a connection than most of us.

Understood that he’s a professional. Understood that professionals can change jobs. But to say that he didn’t develop some kind of connection over the course of living and working there for thirteen years, a connection as strong as some folks who happened to go to school there for four years (or who never went to school there at all), might not be accurate in all cases.

I was stunned when I opened up RBR to find out he was leaving. More stunned to find out he Donovaned. Well, Donovaned may be a bit unfair to Billy. At least BD was making a major move upward. Absent going to one of the PAC-12 habitual contenders there is really not a place to go that I would consider a move up.

Moving on from here my gut tells me this goes one of two ways – both to the extreme end of the pendulum. Either he rallies and finally gets the ladies to the proverbial altar in Ok City or this turns into a complete train wreck. Fingers are crossed for the former but I fear the latter.

I give Coach Murphy every allegiance I give that other guy.

After Billy Donovan returned to Florida: NIT, NIT, 1st round NCAA, Elite 8.

Bobby Cremins flipped from Georgia Tech to South Carolina but flopped back three days later. The next seven seasons, he made 1 NCAA and 2 NITs. He “retired” after 2 straight losing seasons and 3 losing seasons in 4 years.

Dana Altman built up the Creighton b-ball program. He had a one day career with Arkansas. Back at Creighton, NIT, NIT and something called CIT. He left for Oregon this past season and took the Ducks to another thing called the CBI Champions.

at first I read his statement as “I love the purple at Alabama”