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re: Coach Brad Bohannon has Alabama in Omaha by 2020.
Posted on 6/1/17 at 4:57 pm to phil4bama
Posted on 6/1/17 at 4:57 pm to phil4bama
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Hearing former Tennessee head coach Dave Serrano could be the choice for pitching coach at Alabama. Would make a lot of sense
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I'm not sure if this is good or not
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Posted on 6/1/17 at 5:16 pm to Tom Haverford
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Would be nice but way too much $$$$ that UA would lose just to help a handful of baseball players, golfers and track & fielders. We can't lower out-of-state tution for student-athletes without also doing it for regular students.
Why not? Apparently that is what both Ole Miss and Miss State do. They wave it for all out of state athletes.
Or if you are an Alabama resident and you want Alabama baseball team on an even playing field with other schools, stop voting for state officials that are against a state lottery.
Posted on 6/1/17 at 5:21 pm to Cobrasize
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Hearing former Tennessee head coach Dave Serrano could be the choice for pitching coach at Al
Would be great news. Been to Omaha as a head coach at Cal State Fullerton and has SEC experience. UT is one of the harder jobs in baseball
Posted on 6/2/17 at 7:14 am to BamaDude06
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Why not? Apparently that is what both Ole Miss and Miss State do. They wave it for all out of state athletes.
If Ole Miss and State are doing that then it's an NCAA Violation. What they have done are likely still do - is waive out-of-state rates for certain kids based on where they're from e.g. Memphis or based on ACT score, but they do that for anyone - including regular students. Can't do it just for student-athletes.
Posted on 6/2/17 at 7:20 am to phil4bama
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labama may be cheating itself out of some great students because they are being cheap/greedy
You said it yourself, UA is way too greedy to lower tuition costs for 10,000 just to help 30 or so student-athletes and honestly, as much as I love UA Baseball, that would be dumb as hell for UA to do it - because despite how expensive OOS tuition - kids are still flocking to UA in record numbers (way too many now IMO but that's a different discussion)
Mississippi and Mississippi State REALLY NEED OOS based on the population and to compete with neighboring schools...they have to lower OOS to kids from areas like Memphis or New Orleans or Dallas or Atlanta or Birmingham to make going there more attractive.
Bottom line - Alabama will have a disadvantage relative to most of our opponents but there is not much we can we haven't already done. We built incredible facilities and now hired a highly respected coach so hopefully we can help compensate for the before-mentioned obstacles.
Posted on 6/2/17 at 9:40 am to Cobrasize
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I'm not sure if this is good or not
He was Fullterton's pitching coach during their incredible run under Horton. He's also a FANTASTIC recruiter, even at Tennessee.
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Of the 25 Titans to earn All-American honors during Serrano's term as an assistant, 15 were pitchers
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Benito Flores and eventual first-round draft pick Adam Johnson in 1998 started the current string of 12 straight seasons with at least one Titan All-American pitcher, the best streak by any school in the nation. Serrano produced a Fullerton school record four All-American hurlers in both 2001 and 2003, including Saarloos, who was a finalist for virtually every National Pitcher of the Year award and recorded a no-hitter in 2001. Windsor, Serrano's last All-American pitcher as an assistant at Fullerton, was named the 2004 College World Series Most Valuable Player and was named to the College World Series' Legends Team in 2010.
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Though he had already moved on to Irvine by 2005, Serrano recruited and was also part of the early development of now-big league pitcher Ricky Romero, who ended up being the Titans' 10th No. 1 draft pick, an All-American and Big West Conference Pitcher of the Year in 2005.
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Before assisting at Fullerton, Serrano spent two seasons (1995-96) serving the same role at Tennessee for former Head Coach Rod Delmonico. There, he helped the Volunteers reach the College World Series for the first time in 44 years in 1995. During his stay in the south, he oversaw the development of two first-round draft picks in Dickey and Helton, the latter blossoming into one of the best hitters in Major League Baseball after serving as a standout hitter and pitcher or the Vols.
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As an assistant at Cal State Fullerton, 29 pitchers and catchers were drafted and 14 of his pupils (Brandon Duckworth, Matt Wise, Mike Lamb, Erasmo Ramirez, Adam Johnson, Mike Rouse, Kirk Saarloos, Jordan DeJong, Chad Cordero, Wes Littleton, Ricky Romero, Kurt Suzuki, Jason Windsor and Vinnie Pestano) have reached the big leagues. Serrano also tutored a quartet of Major Leaguers in R.A Dickey, Todd Helton, Mike Lincoln and Augie Ojeda during his two-year run as an assistant at the University of Tennessee from 1995-96, as well as two others, Danny Patterson and Joel Adamson, during his seven seasons as a coach on the Cerritos College staff from 1988-1994.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 12:26 am to Tom Haverford
Alabama can live with the disadvantage and still field a program worthy of Omaha. We've done it before. We will never be consistently as great as LSU or Florida, but we can be great over the long term. Just forgive Bohannon in the lean years that will inevitably happen.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:13 am to CapstoneGrad06
Are we at any more of a disadvantage than Vandy? I wouldn't think so since they are private and probably don't get lottery money.
If they can do it we can certainly do it.
If they can do it we can certainly do it.
Posted on 6/5/17 at 9:54 am to auisssa
Coach met with the players today.
Posted on 6/5/17 at 10:53 am to Cobrasize
Bohannon's wife looks like Trisha Yearwood
Posted on 6/5/17 at 10:57 am to Cobrasize
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Bohannon's wife
Hell yes he can recruit. If he can sell her on buying him for life (with that smile and, at the time, a college baseball assistant coach's salary), then I'm pretty confident he can recruit to Bama.
Posted on 6/5/17 at 11:02 am to bamasgot13
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Bohannon's wife
WYHI?
Posted on 6/5/17 at 11:04 am to Gary Busey
Posted on 6/5/17 at 11:12 am to Cobrasize
Posted on 6/6/17 at 8:11 am to Gary Busey
Posted on 6/6/17 at 9:29 am to Gary Busey
Coach Bohannon's first tweet as Alabama's HC
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Thank you to @Greg_Byrne and everyone within @UA_Athletics for making yesterday so special...I am FIRED UP to be your Head Baseball Coach!
Posted on 6/6/17 at 12:05 pm to Bamafan15
I thought for a split second he had tagged Greg Goff.
Posted on 6/6/17 at 1:13 pm to CapstoneGrad06
Pretty sure Hunter Johnson ran him off Twitter after it came out Goff liked to read Twitter and search for his name to see what everyone was saying about him.
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This post was edited on 6/6/17 at 1:15 pm
Posted on 6/6/17 at 7:00 pm to bamasgot13
His wife is very pretty.
But OMG that is the CUTEST dog!!!!!! I want to dognap him.
But OMG that is the CUTEST dog!!!!!! I want to dognap him.
Posted on 6/7/17 at 7:53 am to auisssa
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Are we at any more of a disadvantage than Vandy? I wouldn't think so since they are private and probably don't get lottery money.
Hate to not be like Coach Bohannon worry about the negatives instead of the positives, but Vanderbilt can take lottery funds - not that it matters because as a private school they have all types of grants, endowments, etc that cover tuition that public schools don't have (and it's all well within NCAA rules).
David Price was a "walk-on" at Vanderbilt.
Like one poster said - it would be very very very hard for us to be as consistently good year-in and out as a program like LSU, Florida, Florida State, (rarely if ever having a down year) but no reason we can't be much better now that we have amazing facilities and made a great hire.
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