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phil4bama
| Favorite team: | Alabama  |
| Location: | Emerald Coast of PCB |
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| Occupation: | legal drug dealer |
| Number of Posts: | 11929 |
| Registered on: | 7/18/2011 |
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Yep. Oats will put a good product on the floor
He will put the best product on the floor that he can. It’s not his fault but we’re playing a losing game with this NIL shite. We up the ante to play this game and the ante rises more than we put in. This is a slow motion train wreck in progress and everybody with half a brain knows it but nobody is doing anything to fix it. In 10 years time if nothing is done there will be about 15 teams playing and paying on a level to buy a natty. The rest of us will just be playing to make the tournament and make a deep run. frick this game, we have a coach good enough to win it all but we can’t buy enough players for him to do it and there are 300+ teams in the same boat.
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As long as it’s not an achilles, I would agree
Or a lisfranc fracture.
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Fact of the matter is that we have no idea what the roster will look like next year and Michigan proved this year you can have 5 new guys come in and win it all. Oats can put together a very good roster and he has 3 really good freshman coming in next year.
That’s true but Michigan has a couple of things most teams don’t have. The main one is the virtually unlimited NIL money and the second is they scouted really well and put together a really solid starting 5 that individually didn’t look like stars but together they were a machine because the players accepted their roles and excelled at them. Mara was a shot blocking, rim protecting monster with quick hands that made the lane no man’s land. Yaxel was a Swiss Army knife that could do it all: score, defend, rebound, bring it up the floor. Cadeau was an underrated point guard, underrated flopper to draw fouls, and underrated dirty player that got away with a lot of shite away from the ball. He made sure he got under the opponents skin. Burnette was a solid role player at his spot with the occasional but dependable 3 and good shooting percentage overall and defended and rebounded pretty well. Johnson was a glass cleaner. He got the tough rebounds in the scrums under the basket. And all of them averaged double digits except for Burnette who averaged 8.2ppg. They were just a 5 headed monster.
I would like to think Nate can do that and his game plan against Michigan was great and gave us a chance to win but I fear we’re always going to be one key piece short because he doesn’t have the funds to compete with the Dukes and Michigans. Maybe he can catch lightning in a bottle and between recruiting high school and the portal, can put together a contender. We had a great shot when Miller was there, but bad luck and a bad game cost us a chance at a natty.
re: Another Natty bought and paid for….
Posted by phil4bama on 4/8/26 at 8:01 am to Globetrotter747
At least Saban and Dabo tried to make young men who were prepared for life after football. The decline and fall of college sports will show an eerie but inverse relationship to the rise of ESPN/Disney’s money and influence in the marketplace.
Yeah. Michigan did something that’s never been done in the history of the tournament. Teams are 1-50 when they: fail to score 70 points, shoot under 40% from the field, shoot under 15% on 15+ attempts from 3, and lose the rebounding battle. It was 0-50 until Monday night. Now it’s 1-50. Say what you will, Dusty May took FAU to the Final Four and in year 2 in Ann Arbor won a natty in a way nobody ever has. I know they were all transfers and they were paid handsomely but that’s still pretty impressive. May knows how to work the system and he won the title. He’s the basketball version of Cignetti. Now let’s see if he can sustain it.
Auburn has already hung the banner
Posted by phil4bama on 4/8/26 at 1:19 am
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According to On3. Aiden Sherrell plans on entering the portal
Heard a rumor Michigan State has been tampering with him for quite some time. TIFWIW but it will be interesting to see where he lands. Bama is not giving up without a fight.
re: Another Natty bought and paid for….
Posted by phil4bama on 4/8/26 at 1:06 am to FairhopeTider
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Big 10 won the Football title and both basketball titles. Meanwhile Sankey is filing affidavits against his own schools. Cuck bastard.
I’m beginning to put more stock in the conspiracy theory that Sankey the Yankee is a Big 10 plant sent to destroy the SEC from the command chair.
re: Oats top 3 in coaches?
Posted by phil4bama on 4/8/26 at 1:03 am to mistaken4193
re: Byrne wants to do away with SEC Championship Game
Posted by phil4bama on 4/2/26 at 2:11 pm to PuertoRicanBlaze
Sankey will throw a hissy fit to keep it because $$$$ He doesn’t GAS about the players, the schools, or the league, just the paycheck.
re: Alabama Women’s Basketball 2026-27 roster tracker
Posted by phil4bama on 4/2/26 at 8:11 am to Night Vision
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Over those same four years, head coach Dawn Staley’s program has lost an average of $5.75 million annually — and no deficit was larger than that from FY25. Last season, the Gamecocks’ WBB program was $6.24 million in the red, losing over $600,000 more than it did in FY24.
So for about $1.5 million more we can put a perennial national championship contender on the floor? I say that tongue in cheek but it does make one wonder if we spent another $500,000 to $750,000 dollars on WBB, how good could we be? If we’re going to lose money anyway, let’s get our moneys worth. Maybe we could knock that trashy bayou bitch Mulkey off her bedazzled perch and be the 3rd best team in the league behind Texas and SC. Money well spent IMHO.
If you want more fannies in the seats to boost attendance, easiest way is to win games. But don’t just win them, win them by playing an entertaining brand of basketball. Have a style that is fun to watch. Oats teams are very entertaining. They get up and down the court, shoot the 3, push the tempo, and emphasize hard hat hustle. So adopt a style, a brand. I’m not saying they should necessarily copy Nate, but you could do much worse. But at least adopt a style that wins and is promotable. It helps attendance, if it’s the right kind and gets girls to the WNBA it helps recruiting, it helps visibility and helps the bottom line.
It’s because we aren’t competitive in women’s basketball and everybody knows it. We are just good enough to keep our head above water in the middle of the pack in the SEC. We’re not a threat to South Carolina. We’re not a threat to Texas. I know it would be very difficult and costly to get to that level but when you can’t even beat them on a Occasional basis and get past the first weekend in the tournament occasionally it’s hard for Bama fans to watch. Good or bad our fan base expects excellence in every sport. If we put a mediocre product on the floor or the field, you’re gonna get mediocre attendance.
re: Alabama Women’s Basketball 2026-27 roster tracker
Posted by phil4bama on 4/1/26 at 4:06 pm to Alabama_Fan
But this is exactly what’s effed up with the current system. Something has to change or Olympic and non revenue sports are going to become concentrated in a handful of schools. Alabama has consistently had an athletic budget that ranked in the top 5 nationally and usually turned a small profit or broke even. Now we can’t even afford to competitively support our non-revenue sports because we’re scrounging dollars trying to keep football and men’s basketball afloat. If something doesn’t change, in 10 years time non-revenue and Olympic sports will disappear from all but the wealthiest schools. The Texas schools, Michigan, Stanford, Ohio State, and a few others will be the only ones fielding teams because they will be the only ones left that can afford a swim program or a women’s basketball program or crew. And that’s just to give the big 2 sports a fighting chance to stay competitive. And eventually, those will succumb to the economic inevitability too. It’s practically unavoidable without changes.
re: Alabama Women’s Basketball 2026-27 roster tracker
Posted by phil4bama on 4/1/26 at 3:04 pm to Amarillo Tide
I’m with you Amarillo. Not exactly a Greg Byrne home run. Did we just go cheap?
re: Alabama Women’s Basketball 2026-27 roster tracker
Posted by phil4bama on 4/1/26 at 2:20 pm to Alabama_Fan
Great! She can recruit. That is a valuable asset to have. But can she coach? From what I can tell this is her first job as the head coach. You can recruit all day long, but if you don’t know how to coach it up its all for naught. Only time will tell. She may turn out to be the next Dawn Staley, but the hire is not exactly a splash.
re: Will Wade back to LSU
Posted by phil4bama on 3/31/26 at 8:02 am to PuertoRicanBlaze
At last count, L$U has spent $240 million on hiring and firing coaches and staffs and rosters for the football and basketball teams. This in a state that is broker than frick and has fallen behind Alabama in total population DESPITE Nawlins. They have a $300 million plus state deficit and the city of New Orleans has a deficit over $200 million alone. But Geaux Tigas! Stupid fricks!
Any news or leaks or juicy rumors on the women’s search? I know everything will start actually happening tomorrow as most buyouts seem to have April 1 as a step down day. But I also know if we have a target, rumors of that target usually start to leak out about 24 hours before the announcement. Then again, Byrne took great pains to plug all leaks in the athletic department with a vengeance previously.
Still cheaping out if we are going from $8 million to $12. They should have doubled that and gone to $16 million
We going after this guy? Looks like a great fit:
Boise State's 2025-26 starting center, Drew Fielder, plans to enter the transfer portal following a standout season where he averaged 14.7 PPG and 5.7 RPG. The 6'11" junior, who previously played at Georgetown, was a key scorer for the Broncos, along with primary backup center Dominic Parolin.
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Key Boise State Center Developments (2025-26 Season):
Drew Fielder: Led the Broncos in scoring and developed into a strong interior and perimeter threat (38-93 3PT). He scored a career-high 33 points against San Diego State.
We going after this guy? Looks like a great fit:
Boise State's 2025-26 starting center, Drew Fielder, plans to enter the transfer portal following a standout season where he averaged 14.7 PPG and 5.7 RPG. The 6'11" junior, who previously played at Georgetown, was a key scorer for the Broncos, along with primary backup center Dominic Parolin.
Sports Illustrated
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Key Boise State Center Developments (2025-26 Season):
Drew Fielder: Led the Broncos in scoring and developed into a strong interior and perimeter threat (38-93 3PT). He scored a career-high 33 points against San Diego State.
re: 2025-2026 Alabama Basketball Recruiting
Posted by phil4bama on 3/31/26 at 7:38 am to Amarillo Tide
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The ONLY problem now, if this is considered a problem for him, is that basketball will "walk in the shadow" of football here.
Yeah, that can be a blessing too. He can go to the Sweet Sixteen every year until he dies and the Alabama AD won’t do anything but extend his contract every year. If he makes an occasional Elite Eight or Final Four, they will name the coliseum after him. If he does the exact same thing in Chapel Hill or Lawrence, they will fire him in 5 years. Hubert Davis was in the title game 4 years ago. Today, he’s out of a job. That’s a lot of pressure.
re: Give Oats a lifetime extension
Posted by phil4bama on 3/29/26 at 2:02 pm to RollTide4Ever
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I left Bessemer at 7 and moved to Montserrat and later St. Lucia before moving to EL Paso by 10. It was interesting.
Bless your heart, I didn’t make it out of Bessemer until I was 22.
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