re: Alabama Basketball 2026-27 roster tracker

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Collins Onyejiaka

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Not sure what you guys saw from him that shows promise. His reaction time was slower than Sherrell's.

Yeeeeeeaaaaaah…3 bodies who can play some center is sufficient numbers but I don’t know if we have 3 quality options. No offensive bag among the lot of them. Sherrell may be softer than baby shite at the rim but he did have a jumper.

Problem is Sherrell is trying to get $4 million. And after Bidunga supposedly just got $5 million, Sherrell's price might've just went up. Not sure what we offered, but obviously it wasn't enough vs what he was hearing from the tamperers. Hell, depending on the agent, God knows what crazy shite these players are hearing, true or not.

We really need to follow Michigan's strategy. Somebody needs to suck some billionaire cock, and instead of Hermes bags, buy us some fricking bigs. What's the point of having so many sorostitues if we can't get some sugar baby NIL bucks?

I'm not specifically directing this at you, but society as a whole. We asked for this shameless grab for money when we allowed coaches to reframe raw lust for money as "a business decision."

In the 20th century, America took great strides in throwing off the shackles that once constrained our baser passions. People started to mock the idea that anyone should be ashamed, and the word "society" was put in scare quotes, in order to belittle the constraints it brought.

Our base desires were given free rein. We sowed to the wind, and it felt good, liberating, and real... for a while. And then reality set in, and we reap the whirlwind.

Wall Street has no moral problem with stealing from investors. Corporations have no qualms about cutting jobs to get an extra one penny in earnings for the 4th quarter earnings call. Politicians exploit every loophole to cheat the taxpayer, and they get away with it because there is no sense of shame or social taboo. Men and women divorce to go find their better, more authentic lives.

And the idea of loyalty died too. So, today, we sit here and watch a group of greedy little mercenaries put on the jersey with the biggest dollar sign attached to it and play for that team until another comes along and offers a bigger dollar sign. And we miss things like character, loyalty and morality. But these things are dead. And it is we who killed them.

My guess is “no”

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let’s say Alabama is offering you a Million dollars guaranteed plus hopefully additional legit NiL opportunities vs some other school offering you 1.5 million guaranteed

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I read somewhere that we pad 3 million for Garrison. Idk if true, but I'd like to hope we didn't.

No idea the veracity of this.

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Man, I dont know. I firmly believe Bidunga got closer to $5 million.

$3 million for a mid level big seems plausible to me.

I think our budget is likely higher than we believe. It just has to be. We couldn't field a competitive team if not, and Oats wouldnt have signed that extension if he couldnt be competitive here.

Just from reading the tea leaves it sounds like the money being thrown around this offseason has ticked up considerably from just the last few years. I can see a scenario where our basketball NIL scheme is designed to tick up with "inflation", but if they presume a year over year increase of 5-10% and one year it shoots up 25-30%, which is going to leave us totally fricked.