UAB is a basketball school who dreams of having a football addiction. Once Watson Brown is gone, we may actually have a football addiction. Until that happens, let's stick to the bread and butter.
Keenan Ellis, a 6-11 forward from Indianapolis, Ind., and Aaron Johnson, a 5-7 point guard from Chicago, Ill., have just signed with UAB and coach Mike Davis for the 2007-08 season. A season that will already feature Robert Vaden, Walter Sharpe, Jeremy Mayfield, Taurus Dortch, etc. as well as current UAB standouts like Paul Delaney, Lawrence Kinnard, and Frank Holmes.
"These two signees are huge for us," Davis said. "Keenan is a monster inside and a great athletic player who can shoot and post. Aaron is a super quick point guard and exciting player to watch. Our coaching staff did a great job recruiting both of these guys and we are excited for them to join the UAB program."
He's excited. Just think of the hundreds of thousands of fans who are itching for basketball season to start. It's all well and good to listen to Cory Provus and Steve Mitchell call the game. But these fans want to see it in person. These fans want to live it themselves. These fans have expectations. BIG Expectations.
Our opening loss to Washington State was sobering to me. I thought for sure we have an Tourney-bound team after the Bahama's practices. The loss jerked me back down to earth. But everyday I see them practice ali-oops, dunks, free throws, and three's in the corner, I can't help but hope that maybe I wasn't too far off.
After all, there's only one other coach that has started out at UAB with a losing record. Too early to be drawing comparison just yet, but if we make the tourney this year and go deep, look for expectations to go up.
And who knows, we might even top Memphis a couple times this year.
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