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Posted on 6/12/17 at 6:02 pm to CapstoneGrad06
And almost every baseball team losses money
Posted on 6/12/17 at 6:58 pm to TomRollTideRitter
And therein lies the whole problem with title IX. There is no women's sport that compares to football in numbers or revenue. Look, I get it. I have two daughters and I want them to have an equivalent chance to compete as the guys. But football should be taken out of the equation because it generates all the money and has no female equivalent. They limit certain men's sports and create teams for women to try and make the numbers work. It's real simple: remove football as unique and the numbers really almost balance themselves.
As for scholarship money, the P5 should declare that every varsity sport have enough full scholarships to fund a a complete team; not a complete roster mind you, but a complete team every year. For baseball that should be 12-13 full rides EACH YEAR! Swimming is in the same boat. Lots of partials given out. I think the minimum should be half a scholarship. If you can't afford that, maybe you shouldn't be P5 or maybe it shouldn't be a varsity sport at your school.
As for scholarship money, the P5 should declare that every varsity sport have enough full scholarships to fund a a complete team; not a complete roster mind you, but a complete team every year. For baseball that should be 12-13 full rides EACH YEAR! Swimming is in the same boat. Lots of partials given out. I think the minimum should be half a scholarship. If you can't afford that, maybe you shouldn't be P5 or maybe it shouldn't be a varsity sport at your school.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 10:05 pm to phil4bama
Article about Jason Jackson
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Under Jackson’s tutelage 14 FAU pitchers have been drafted by Major League Baseball teams, including Austin Gomber, R. J. Alvarez and Ryan Garton.
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Current pitcher Alex House is likely to raise that total to 15 in the next couple days of the MLB Draft. House credits Jackson with helping him develop a slider that could potentially make him a second-day pick
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:04 am to Cobrasize
Classy Tweet from FAU's coach:
Bohannon got the best fit for the job.
Bohannon got the best fit for the job.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 6:23 pm to AHM21
I'll say one more thing about the scholarship situation then I'll shut up.
If the sport were football and we were struggling to keep up with the LSU's and A&M's due to lottery money, how long do you think it would take to get the bill through the legislature and on the governors desk? The ink wouldn't have time to dry.
If the sport were football and we were struggling to keep up with the LSU's and A&M's due to lottery money, how long do you think it would take to get the bill through the legislature and on the governors desk? The ink wouldn't have time to dry.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 6:33 pm to phil4bama
Bohannon building a championship staff
Posted on 6/16/17 at 10:52 am to Gary Busey
We cancelled all of the summer baseball camps for 2017
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This post was edited on 6/16/17 at 10:53 am
Posted on 6/16/17 at 6:50 pm to Cobrasize
In other words, Bohannon couldn't clean up the mess he was left in time to put together a camp we could feel good about hosting. That's disappointing but understandable. Just more Goof fallout.
Posted on 6/17/17 at 6:32 am to Cobrasize
Good move if you ask me. Goffs camp we attended this past December sucked. Scheduled the same day as graduation and camp was not well organized.
Posted on 6/17/17 at 10:29 am to partsman103
Goff just didn't know how to run a big program, and from the way it sounds, he wasn't interested in learning
Posted on 6/17/17 at 11:50 am to Cobrasize
we could not win with our coach nor players from last year. So was it all coach or a combination of Both. Someone with BB insight please explain why 2018 will be better.
Posted on 6/17/17 at 6:05 pm to mrbroker
Not a big baseball insider but here's my take. How will 2018 be better? It couldn't be much worse. Are we contenders in the SEC? Probably not. Will we start moving back in the right direction? I certainly believe we will.
We were on shaky ground going into 2017 regardless of the coach. Then our former AD panicked when his primary target balked when we tried to lowball him. And our primary target was a good one and Bama baseball would be in better shape today if we had done the smart thing and offered him good money.
When that didn't happen, someone on Battle's search team threw out Goff's name as we were scrambling to start over. And we weren't the biggest name looking for a baseball coach at the time. Goff had had success at every level including at Montevallo. And in a panic, he was offered. He obviously wasn't vetted thoroughly and properly or some of his foibles including being a world class a-hole and some questionable NCAA dealings would have surfaced and he would have been passed over. He wasn't. And he was a walking human version of Hurricane Katrina who promptly put the baseball program in an historic nosedive that will take time to recover from. He destroyed relationships with recruits, former players, high school coaches, and current team members. It's no wonder we had a historically bad season.
So coach Bohannon is starting from a bad spot. I think he's the right man for the job because he has come from a very successful coaching tree and because we have probably the best AD in the business now who knows his job and how to do it well. I think getting back to .500 and middle of the SEC pack is a reasonable, realistic goal for 2018 for this team and I will be happy with that. Anything beyond that is just fantastic.
I'm not a baseball insider, but you can piece together that story from the information that is scattered out there on different message boards. Fill in a few small blanks with some educated guesses and that's how it went down. I think 2019, we'll be dangerous with some better talent and more of it on board.
We were on shaky ground going into 2017 regardless of the coach. Then our former AD panicked when his primary target balked when we tried to lowball him. And our primary target was a good one and Bama baseball would be in better shape today if we had done the smart thing and offered him good money.
When that didn't happen, someone on Battle's search team threw out Goff's name as we were scrambling to start over. And we weren't the biggest name looking for a baseball coach at the time. Goff had had success at every level including at Montevallo. And in a panic, he was offered. He obviously wasn't vetted thoroughly and properly or some of his foibles including being a world class a-hole and some questionable NCAA dealings would have surfaced and he would have been passed over. He wasn't. And he was a walking human version of Hurricane Katrina who promptly put the baseball program in an historic nosedive that will take time to recover from. He destroyed relationships with recruits, former players, high school coaches, and current team members. It's no wonder we had a historically bad season.
So coach Bohannon is starting from a bad spot. I think he's the right man for the job because he has come from a very successful coaching tree and because we have probably the best AD in the business now who knows his job and how to do it well. I think getting back to .500 and middle of the SEC pack is a reasonable, realistic goal for 2018 for this team and I will be happy with that. Anything beyond that is just fantastic.
I'm not a baseball insider, but you can piece together that story from the information that is scattered out there on different message boards. Fill in a few small blanks with some educated guesses and that's how it went down. I think 2019, we'll be dangerous with some better talent and more of it on board.
Posted on 6/18/17 at 10:48 pm to phil4bama
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we had done the smart thing and offered him good money.
To be fair to Battle, it's stupid to offer a baseball coach good money. The sport doesn't generate enough money, and we had already poured a ton into the new Joe.
This post was edited on 6/18/17 at 10:49 pm
Posted on 6/19/17 at 8:51 am to TomRollTideRitter
Well then why build a new stadium? If your concern is solely with making money, why not just send them out to the intramural fields to play? If you're going to put money into it to try to be good, then do it. It makes perfect sense to spend a little more money on a coach that is going to make you competitive. The alternative is to have to deal with a dumpster fire and you lose money anyway.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 2:25 pm to Bham Bammer
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Well then why build a new stadium?
To be competitive. It's debatable if building the stadium was a good decision. The University has received less than half the donations they expected for the stadium.
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If your concern is solely with making money, why not just send them out to the intramural fields to play?
I didn't say they shouldn't try to win. At the same time we shouldn't throw endless money at a sport with little to no chance of a profit.
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If you're going to put money into it to try to be good, then do it.
By this logic we should spend millions and millions on baseball. Why not spend $1 billion on it?
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The alternative is to have to deal with a dumpster fire and you lose money anyway.
Spending more money doesn't equal more winning. We could have found a good coach for how much we paid Goff. $450k per year over 5 years is a great contract for a CBB coach. We could have also found a bad coach paying more money than we paid Goff.
This post was edited on 6/19/17 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 6/19/17 at 4:12 pm to TomRollTideRitter
Nobody is talking about endless money. If you're ok with building a new stadium to be competitive, I can't fathom why you'd want to pinch pennies in hiring a coach.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 6:07 pm to Bham Bammer
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I can't fathom why you'd want to pinch pennies in hiring a coach.
Because they didn't get anywhere near as much in donations as they thought they would for the stadium.
Posted on 6/23/17 at 6:40 am to TomRollTideRitter
From Brock Guffey's Twitter:
Officially going to play baseball at The University of Alabama. Thank you so much @AlabamaBSB for this opportunity. #RollTide
Officially going to play baseball at The University of Alabama. Thank you so much @AlabamaBSB for this opportunity. #RollTide
Posted on 6/23/17 at 8:06 am to phil4bama
Guffey was outstanding this season for Hoover. I wonder if this is an indication that Bohannon has gotten the scholarship situation sorted out to a manageable level. Hopefully so.
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