Years before taking over the South Carolina women’s basketball team, Dawn Staley declined the head coaching position at Alabama, she revealed in her new book, “Uncommon Favor.” She liked the idea of coaching in the SEC but felt that particular move didn’t feel right. Meanwhile, waiting for South Carolina helped her family come to a full-circle moment.
“Alabama came after me first in 2005,” Staley wrote. “I visited the campus. I liked the athletic director. But I couldn’t see myself living in Alabama.”
At the time, Staley was coaching at Temple. The year Alabama approached her was the year the Owls went 16-0 in the regular season, becoming the first team in A-10 history to go undefeated…