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Posted on 8/6/24 at 10:37 am to Hoyt
Posted on 8/6/24 at 10:37 am to Hoyt
No more calls, we have a winner
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Please consider doing your part and joining us at Yea Alabama's Season Kickoff Dinner and Auction on Friday, August 23rd, at the Hank Crisp Indoor Practice Facility. Head Coach Kalen DeBoer will be our special guest. This will be an evening that you won't soon forget!
The Season Kickoff Dinner and Auction will give sponsors and their guests the unique opportunity to share a meal with Coach DeBoer, assistant coaches, and players where they will give first hand insights about the upcoming season.
Sponsors will also be treated to a variety of experiences arranged by Yea Alabama. The auction will feature once-in-a-lifetime items and memorabilia that cannot be found anywhere else.
With your support, Yea Alabama will ensure that UA football remains competitive in the NIL space and continues recruiting elite talent. Space is limited, so please let us know if you plan to attend as soon as possible.
We hope to see you soon and Roll Tide!
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Sounds like the University is looking to move in another direction… I assume Yea Alabama!
https://www.yeaalabamaevents.com
Please consider doing your part and joining us at Yea Alabama's Season Kickoff Dinner and Auction on Friday, August 23rd, at the Hank Crisp Indoor Practice Facility. Head Coach Kalen DeBoer will be our special guest. This will be an evening that you won't soon forget!
The Season Kickoff Dinner and Auction will give sponsors and their guests the unique opportunity to share a meal with Coach DeBoer, assistant coaches, and players where they will give first hand insights about the upcoming season.
Sponsors will also be treated to a variety of experiences arranged by Yea Alabama. The auction will feature once-in-a-lifetime items and memorabilia that cannot be found anywhere else.
With your support, Yea Alabama will ensure that UA football remains competitive in the NIL space and continues recruiting elite talent. Space is limited, so please let us know if you plan to attend as soon as possible.
We hope to see you soon and Roll Tide!
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Posted on 8/11/24 at 5:07 pm to Alabama_Fan
The future of college sports is here. I don’t know if Alabama is the only school doing this or just one of many (very likely the latter). But in a nutshell it’s write a check to go with your love and loyalty to the athletic programs or we have no time or place for you. The connections and introductions you may have provided in the past mean next to nothing in the new paradigm so pay up and/or shut up. It’s show me the money or we show you the door. And the saddest part is with the new conditions, they really don’t have much choice. Oregon is on the cutting edge here and as soon as other schools with mega donors like Phil Knight realize that championships are for sale now for the right price, all but a handful of schools will struggle to keep up. Alabama may very well be among the have-nots in the not so distant future because we don’t have the virtually unlimited donor funds like a Texas or a USCor an Oregon. Unless something changes and some limitations are put in place, what’s to stop one of these schools from buying more of the best players than any other school and just spending their way to a natty, especially in a sport with limited numbers like basketball. Cut 6 or 7 checks to the right players and you have an incredible dream team and it’s all perfectly acceptable under the present rules system. So we, the fans, are nothing more than a necessary evil now unless our net worth is in the 8 figures.
Posted on 8/12/24 at 7:30 am to phil4bama
The Northeast Chapter has a meeting tonight in Gadsden. Tyler Watts is speaking. Hopefully, we will hear an update from our chapter leaders.
Posted on 8/12/24 at 8:46 am to phil4bama
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The future of college sports is here. I don’t know if Alabama is the only school doing this or just one of many (very likely the latter). But in a nutshell it’s write a check to go with your love and loyalty to the athletic programs or we have no time or place for you. The connections and introductions you may have provided in the past mean next to nothing in the new paradigm so pay up and/or shut up. It’s show me the money or we show you the door. And the saddest part is with the new conditions, they really don’t have much choice. Oregon is on the cutting edge here and as soon as other schools with mega donors like Phil Knight realize that championships are for sale now for the right price, all but a handful of schools will struggle to keep up. Alabama may very well be among the have-nots in the not so distant future because we don’t have the virtually unlimited donor funds like a Texas or a USCor an Oregon. Unless something changes and some limitations are put in place, what’s to stop one of these schools from buying more of the best players than any other school and just spending their way to a natty, especially in a sport with limited numbers like basketball. Cut 6 or 7 checks to the right players and you have an incredible dream team and it’s all perfectly acceptable under the present rules system. So we, the fans, are nothing more than a necessary evil now unless our net worth is in the 8 figures.
I think the fear that UA is going to get pauperized by NIL just isn't holding up to reality. The NIL future is already here and Alabama flourished with Saban and has kept pace with DeBoer in the early returns.
Schools with big fanbases that can get a critical mass of small donors will continue to flourish like they did before NIL. Presidential candidates can bring in 10s if not 100s of millions from small donor contributions in a given month during campaign season. Love it or hate it the future of college athletics is getting bugged by your school's equivelent to WinRed or ActBlue.
Posted on 8/12/24 at 4:57 pm to phil4bama
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The connections and introductions you may have provided in the past mean next to nothing in the new paradigm so pay up and/or shut up. It’s show me the money or we show you the door
A few years down the road when the newness rubs off, and John-Q Sports Fan is tired of committing his monthly allocation ad-infinitum, or his team no longer excites him, and that huge magnitude of support wains, do they come back to the core group with all of the connections and the traditions, and try to welcome us back with open arms? What happens?
By then who is buying the $20,000 tent on The Quad, and sitting in the $250,000 loge box, and sorry it costs too much to build you that new basketball arena this year the students can just watch the game on ESPN, and oh hey, can you donate some extra money every month to Yea Alabama so we can reduce the capacity of the football stadium?
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I know this is passive aggressive, and I'm probably just an old guy complaining about change, but I really feel like we're on the verge of losing something that we're never going to get back (in terms of college football as a whole). Hell, I guess we've already lost it. And it really, really, sucks.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 12:54 pm to paperwasp
Everybody in here has such a limited view of the future. Nick Saban has made Alabama exponentially richer by inviting more eyes to the program as well as more funding of education and facilities. These people will eventually create more big donors over time and all of this won’t be a problem. Justin Thomas is a world class athlete and champion known all across the globe. Nick has put out at least 50+ millionaires into the NFL that will surely over time create their own business ventures and raise their own kids and so on and so forth.
I don’t think people realize how rich Alabama will actually be in about 10 years. 3/4 of Alabama’s enrollment is out of state. All the Ahmed Shamars and Kim Xhu Dongs of the world are slowly coming to Alabama and getting their degree solely because of the football program. And these people are increasing the prestige of the programs they attend as well as the aura of the script A.
Stop being so short sighted people.
I don’t think people realize how rich Alabama will actually be in about 10 years. 3/4 of Alabama’s enrollment is out of state. All the Ahmed Shamars and Kim Xhu Dongs of the world are slowly coming to Alabama and getting their degree solely because of the football program. And these people are increasing the prestige of the programs they attend as well as the aura of the script A.
Stop being so short sighted people.
Posted on 8/13/24 at 2:03 pm to Vulcan Materials
I have absolutely no concerns regarding the University, its facilities, or its donors.
I know how rich Alabama already is and what percentage of the enrollment is from out of state.
I'm talking about the greater community that some of us grew up within getting pushed aside because of NIL, which has now taken on a form it was never intended to be. (And it's happening everywhere.)
Of course Nick Saban did all of those wonderful things. He also left the sport because of what he saw it becoming.
I know how rich Alabama already is and what percentage of the enrollment is from out of state.
I'm talking about the greater community that some of us grew up within getting pushed aside because of NIL, which has now taken on a form it was never intended to be. (And it's happening everywhere.)
Of course Nick Saban did all of those wonderful things. He also left the sport because of what he saw it becoming.
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