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Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:05 am to Bham Bammer
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:05 am to Bham Bammer
Possibly trying to find loopholes to get out of paying guaranteed contracts to your last 2 baseball hires is certainly the sort of thing that will endure you to the coaching community as a whole.
What a flaming disaster.
What a flaming disaster.
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Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:08 am to Bham Bammer
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I highly doubt that.
At the very least he was leaking info right? I think he still has a job right now if it was just a player
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:13 am to Glorious
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At the very least he was leaking info right? I think he still has a job right now if it was just a player
No way of knowing. Him scratching his starter is something that probably 40+ people (teammates, trainers, assistant coaches) knew about before the general public found out. Any of those people could have said something to a friend or relative who then went and loaded up on LSU. And they could have said that with absolutely zero knowledge that it would be used as gambling information.
This is just a theory and has no factual basis, but a more likely scenario to me is that the AD started an internal investigation and found Bohannon has some sort of sports betting history (not saying Alabama or even college baseball) that they felt they couldn't get past with the news out right now.
This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 11:14 am
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:18 am to Bham Bammer
I mean the statement straight up said he was being terminated for violating the standards, duties, and responsibilities expected of University employees. He had to have done something other than being a crappy coach.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:19 am to RollTide33
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I mean the statement straight up said he was being terminated for violating the standards, duties, and responsibilities expected of University employees. He had to have done something other than being a crappy coach.
Yea there has to be more to all this than "Alabama scratched a pitcher to start another, basically equal pitcher". He's not getting fired for that unless he was involved or knew what happened and lied about it to his bosses.
The only other thing I can think of was that the legal stuff actually had some legs, they were thinking about moving on at season's end anyway and then this popped up and had enough of a possibly whiff of truth that they just pulled the trigger anyway.
This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 11:22 am
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:27 am to SummerOfGeorge
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the legal stuff actually had some legs
What is this?
This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 11:28 am
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:30 am to Bham Bammer
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What is this?
Bohanan sued - Tuscaloosa News
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Alabama baseball coach Brad Bohannon, pitching coach Jason Jackson and athletic trainer Sean Stryker have been sued for alleged negligence, wantonness and breach of agreement for the handling of an injury to former baseball player Johnny Blake Bennett, according to court documents filed in Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court in March.
A hearing on the defenses' motion to dismiss is set for 2:30 p.m. on June 20, according to a court document filed Thursday.
“The University does not comment on pending litigation, but looks forward to sharing the actual facts with the court," UA athletics wrote in a statement to The Tuscaloosa News. "The mental and physical well-being of its student-athletes is of the utmost importance to the University. We have supreme confidence in our coaching staffs and provide our student-athletes with access to the best sports medicine personnel and sports psychology practitioners in the country.”
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:32 am to SummerOfGeorge
Ah, got it. I remember that now.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:34 am to SummerOfGeorge
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Alabama baseball coach Brad Bohannon, pitching coach Jason Jackson and athletic trainer Sean Stryker have been sued for alleged negligence, wantonness and breach of agreement for the handling of an injury to former baseball player Johnny Blake Bennett, according to court documents filed in Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court in March
Maybe but you would think if this was a part of the decision then Jackson wouldn't be sitting here as interim head coach. He'd be gone too.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:36 am to RollTide33
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Maybe but you would think if this was a part of the decision then Jackson wouldn't be sitting here as interim head coach. He'd be gone too.
That's a good point.
I mean if Bo was fired for this then he was either directly involved with whatever happened or learned about it and then lied to Byrne about it. Even if "it" was something very minor (told a buddy something about scratching a starter, which he knew was irrelevant but maybe the buddy didnt or something).
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:36 am to SummerOfGeorge
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Yea there has to be more to all this than "Alabama scratched a pitcher to start another, basically equal pitcher". He's not getting fired for that unless he was involved or knew what happened and lied about it to his bosses.
The only other thing I can think of was that the legal stuff actually had some legs, they were thinking about moving on at season's end anyway and then this popped up and had enough of a possibly whiff of truth that they just pulled the trigger anyway.
They may have no way of proving anything one way or another, but found out that he has a ton of debts he failed to disclose when he was hired. That puts things squarely in the OJ sphere of "it wasn't proven, but come on". Even if he can plausibly deny doing anything wrong that cloud is never, ever going away.
Could have also refused to let them look at his personal cell phone or been unable to give a straight answer to "why did you scratch your starting pitcher an hour before the game?"
This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 11:41 am
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:38 am to SummerOfGeorge
Maybe we can hire Cliff Godwin this time like we should have the past two times.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:38 am to Robot Santa
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They may have no way of proving anything one way or another, but found out that he has a ton of debts he failed to disclose when he was hired. That puts things squarely in the OJ sphere of "it wasn't proven, but come on". Even if he can plausibly deny doing anything wrong that cloud is never, ever going away.
Yea........that's a very very not good look.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:40 am to Bham Bammer
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Maybe we can hire Cliff Godwin this time like we should have the past two times.
"Listen Cliff, we're gonna pay you $1M a year. That's double. We have a nice stadium and nobody is gonna get mad if you just go the tournament most years. We good?"
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:51 am to SummerOfGeorge
I’d be ecstatic if we could pull Godwin this time. Time to make something of the investment made in the facilities. Can’t keep being cheap with coaching hires for baseball.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:53 am to Robot Santa
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The scoop on Bama coach firing from a Bama commitPosted on 5/4/23 at 11:14 am
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My nephews best friend is a current Bama baseball commit. He was told that a player on the team bet on Bama to lose the Friday game against LSU after Bama scratched their starter 45 minutes before first pitch. Coach Brad Bohanan got word of it but never reported it and now he got axed. That's the true story
From the LSU board. No clue if it is true, but frankly this sounds like the most plausible story that lines up across the board.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 11:54 am to Panthers4life
This is a shocking development.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 12:02 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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From the LSU board. No clue if it is true, but frankly this sounds like the most plausible story that lines up across the board.
Sounds plausible, but how did the player bet in person in Cincinnati? Would have to have been a player not on the traveling squad and in Northern Kentucky or Cincinnati area for some reason. Hard to make sense of.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 12:03 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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I’d be ecstatic if we could pull Godwin this time. Time to make something of the investment made in the facilities. Can’t keep being cheap with coaching hires for baseball.
We need to go offer a coach $1M+ and we're probably going to need to invest in an indoor facility as well. I don't know if we waive OOS tuition for partial scholarship athletes but hopefully we do. Need to start doing that if we don't already.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 12:04 pm to Bham Bammer
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Sounds plausible, but how did the player bet in person in Cincinnati? Would have to have been a player not on the traveling squad and in Northern Kentucky or Cincinnati area for some reason. Hard to make sense of.
I'd imagine someone did it for him or he relayed it to someone.
I still struggle to understand how a bet on this was made large enough to trigger sensors in the gambling commission office off of such, frankly, irrelevant information. I assume we'll get details at some point.
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