re: Alabama Basketball Recruiting and Offseason Talk

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I'm not sure I fully understand the question,

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The correlation between ahole fans and "from Texas" seems to be extremely high, especially student/young alumni ages. It's like if you took your standard arrogant ahole UTx fan then gave him a winning relevant program

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Giving all this money in scholarships to students from other states doesn't seem fair to the Alabama taxpayer though

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That's not exactly how it works. Out of state students are extremely profitable for the university, often times even with fairly large scholarships. The scholarships are for most students like discounts instead of the university losing $ based on admitting them.

Most of the expenses of the university are fixed costs and don't increase by adding an additional student to enrollment.

In fact, it is advantageous financially to add more stduents to defray these fixed costs amongst a larger student population pool. By accepting more out of state students, even those on scholarship, they can reduce the average expense per student

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My point was at UA there's little to no benefit to being from Alabama scholarship wise.

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The scholarship is embedded in the fact that instate tuition is significantly lower than OOS tuition. If you want a better example, look at Illinois which in state is barely a discount

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Tax money funds the University.

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Only a small percentage of the University

According to the 2015 Alabama financial report, tuition accounting for $419,482,065 compared to $144,234,844 in state legislature funding

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Is it fair to the people paying those taxes that they aren't receiving better scholarships to the University than kids from other states?

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You are viewing this in an isolated scholarship budget analysis and not a wholistic picture of net cash flow by adding an instate scholarship vs OOS scholarship student

Again, you are ignoring the embedded "scholarship" of instate tuition rates that out of state students aren't getting.

Additionally, considering that state appropriations don't really change by adding more instate students, the marginal expense cost of an OOS vs Instate student is equivalent

The difference though is an out of state student on a $17k/yr scholarship is still paying $11.1k tuition > instate tuition at ~$10.8k


So the instate student scholarship profile needs to be significantly better to justify a scholarship in which the opportunity cost is signfiicantly hire

wrong thread

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I made some good friend's from the Washington metro, but the girls from NY can kiss my arse.

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I'm actually fine with the Yankees, but most aren't great fans imo

Yep those pesky facts and stuff lok

Not to mention one of his best friends is on our roster and he comes to games. I get that crean has history with his family but Avery started recruiting trendon the moment the first press conference ended.

Things I'd like to see improve:

-Better ball handling from our guards. If you expect to make deep runs in the NCAAT, you have to expect great guard play. It doesn't bode well for us if Petty dribbles too high, Avery Jr can't escape one-on-one pressure, and Ingram falls down every time he drives.

-Boxing out. Rebounding improved down the stretch in my eyes, but there's still a huge issue with this team ball watching and losing their man. Often leading to more 2nd chance points.

-Play more uptempo and better ball movement. Enough of the simplistic big man coming to the top of the key to set the pick and roll. Play in more sets, find ways to attack the zone, and set better screens to create separation. Ultimately, this could help us find an identity offensively.

-Shoot more mid-range jumpers. Sexton started to open up his game more late in the season when he started doing this, but he's likely gone after this year. We weren't that bad offensively this year in FG% (46%), but the eye test would tell you we are garbage when it came to banking open shots. I would love to see Reese, Petty, and Mack start the games taking them early and often to get into rhythm, then start taking shots from 3.

-Speaking of 3s, we finished 301st in the country in 3-point FG%. Numbers speak for themselves on why that needs to improve. If you attempt over 700 3s, I would at least like to see our percentage closer to 35%, rather closer to under 30%.


-Lastly, fouls. We can bitch and complain about the officiating, but our team is downright stupid when it comes to committing fouls. I thought we were going to set a new record for illegal screens at the beginning of the year. Alabama finished 320nd in the country in fewest fouls- only Arkansas and Tennessee had more.

I don't mind most defensive fouls, but our screens need to be fixed. There's really no excuse for how many of those we got.

I really want Key to leave and for Avery to hit the GradTransfer market hard for a shooter.

Good lord. The kid had knee surgery and missed 10 games and had a sophomore slump. Give the guy a fricking break. He played really well as a freshman.