re: Tide Baseball 31-27 (12-17)

Most Bama thing ever tonight … down to one out

Can’t wait

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year 5?

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I gotta defend Bo a little bit here. Bama and Auburn may be the hardest schools to win at in college baseball(when you factor in toughness of SEC schedule). Even just being an average SEC team here would mean you are an above average coach.

The baseball program is a victim of the schools own success. Tuition in general and especially for OOS students is insane. You try recruiting a high level OOS player by telling him his family(or him) is gonna have pay out the wazzu to play here. He can go play at Vandy for free. You might say "why doesnt the University offer in-state/reduced tuition to baseball players?" because they are greedy assholes. They dont have to. Bama is such a niche little "get away from home" school that they rake in money on OOS tuition. They wont risk a dime of that on an irrelevant baseball program.

Winning here would require being exceptional not just good. NIL is the only hope for this program and the new coach would have to pursue this to win. Still NIL deals would have to get up to 700k+/year to cover baseball. What businesses out there can really benefit that much from baseball sponserships?

This is why I recommended this particular guy to Bo**reference to a post I made during the UF series**...for developing players he is one of the best in the country..Id argue THE best. Bama needs guys like that to win. We need to be able to sell top players that going to Bama will maximize their potential physically and skill wise to make it at the next level. Right now top players have no reason to choose Bama over any other top 30 school.

that is like two weeks to flatten the curve. you sure 12 is enough

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We’re going to have to get radical to level the playing field.

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This. We dont need a baseball coaching phenom. We need someone who is outside the box.

We need to find a way to get beyond the 11 1/2 scholarship limit. Vandy can give financial aid or merit scholarships to all 35 players. All of our surrounding states except Miss have lotteries that can fund scholarships, and Mississippi has casino gambling money for funding. All SEC schools could easily fund 2 or 3 more womens's team (Equestrian, synchronized swimming, lacrosse? whatever?) to satisfy Title 9, but Alabama and Auburn are falling farther behind because any action on a lottery or casinos has to go through the state legislature before the 80% or so who want a lottery can even vote on it. This quandry stems from our 1901 Constitution, which is the longest in the world because any and everything must be settled in the legislature, meaning everybody has to get his kickback guaranteed, before we can vote. We will rarely beat fully funded baseball teams splitting up 11 1/2 scholarships.

Saturday Baseball at Mississippi State
Starkville, Miss.
2 p.m.
SEC Network+

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0-0 through the first 3 innings then Bama gives up a 2 run homer in the 4th. 2-0 MSU after 4th inning.

Thus far the team has put on a clinic in offensive impotence. 1st inning the lead off batter gets on, next batter hits into a double play. Next batter gets on and gets picked off stealing 2nd. Oh the pain…..