re: UA Basketball (16-15, 8-10)

Absolutely. I’ve seen enough to be convinced that he can coach. Can he get the players he needs is still a bit of a question mark.

And I know he got the players he needed at Buffalo, etc. It’s different now.

We have the money (thanks to football) to have the nicest basketball facilities in the country, we just need the motivation

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Can we pony up the moneys if a blue blood showed interest in Oats? Whats our ceiling financially if we wanted to keep him?

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If Byrne thinks Oats is the guy and Oats wants to be here, I doubt anyone could pry him away. I'd be shocked if we lost him due to salary.

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It's the Indian and not the arrow.

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Tell that to Saban. Saban believes, the fancier the arrow, then the better Indians will come

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aban also talked about what proposed stadium renovations reveal about the football program at Alabama.

“I think it speaks volumes to a commitment to a standard of excellence that the University, the athletic department has to continue to be our best,” he said. “If you stand pat and everybody else is chasing you and what you do, they’re eventually going to catch you. To be aggressive in trying to make improvements is really important.”

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Alabama starting to show up in some NCAA bracket projections, including this one from @TeamRankingsCBB.

Very interesting because their model simulates season results & they have Bama at an 8-seed.

Creighton is 9-seed. Wouldn't that be something.

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Off the bounce vs catch and shoot three-point attempts for the kenpom top 100:

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Coming into the day, the average LINK ranking of teams by conference, including the highest-ranked team's position and the lowest-ranked team's position:

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Beetle is the only one for sure.

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But, it could use at least some type of upgrade or replacement and we keep redoing BDS, which already was at the top of college football, puzzles me

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Updating Coleman was part of Phase 2 of this current facilities upgrade. BDS and softball stadium were first. I’m pretty sure I read they had already raised enough money for the Coleman renovations. Last I heard the plan was to lower the court surface and rotate it 90 degrees, and add upper decks on the sides. Original plan I think was to start after this season, but with BJcC renovations that may have changed.

Forget where I read this. Maybe someone else can confirm.

ETA - I think they’re also planning on removing the roof and installing a flat one with some sunlights in it.

Salary wont stop us from keeping Nate Oats, a commitment to basketball facilities or a lack if one will. We’ve been talking about replacing Coleman for 20 years now but instead, we keep putting millions of dollars in a fresh coat of lipstick on that pig. And in the meantime, we gold plate another bathroom in BDS. This latest “upgrade” is stupid. Nobody wanted it except Saban and the deep pocketed boosters that want to squeeze some of the commoners out of their palace. It pisses me off. How much money have we thrown away renovating an outdated building?

Regarding Nate’s contract, I agree we need to do what we can to keep him happy. If more money will, thrown another couple of millions at him. But what we DONT need to do is give him an exorbitant buyout. We’ve done that with the two previous coaches to try and hang on to them and all it has done is backfire and cause us to keep them longer than we should. Lets learn from our past mistakes.

I think Nate is the real deal too. I was one of the first to jump on that wagon. But we dont KNOW that yet. He still hasn’t gone through a full recruiting cycle yet. He did miss on Trendon and how big is that now? That may not be fair, I know, but he would make a big difference. Im just saying lets not go off half cocked.