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How we feel about Greg Byrne?
Posted on 3/24/26 at 9:21 pm
Posted on 3/24/26 at 9:21 pm
Almost 10 years into Ole Greg’s tenure…
On a scale of Dreamland to Rodney Scott’s…how we feelin’ bout our athletic director?
On a scale of Dreamland to Rodney Scott’s…how we feelin’ bout our athletic director?
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Posted on 3/24/26 at 9:23 pm to Vulcan Materials
Withholding judgment until he gets through this coaching carousel with Nate Oats still wearing plaid.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 5:54 am to Vulcan Materials
Posted on 3/25/26 at 6:41 am to Vulcan Materials
He hit it out the park with the Nate Oats hire and the baseball coach hire was pretty good. I'm not too privy on the other sports to offer a definitive opinion but he seems like he did a good job so far.
ETA : I like the Deboer hire but only time will tell if he hit it out the park
ETA : I like the Deboer hire but only time will tell if he hit it out the park
This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 6:43 am
Posted on 3/25/26 at 6:48 am to Vulcan Materials
Greg will be in the Hall of Fame.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 8:16 am to RollTide4Ever
I think he’s doing great. Football, baseball and basketball are in good shape.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 2:41 pm to Vulcan Materials
Byrne is considered one of the best to do it by his peers. He's brought money in, managed the personalities and made good to great hires. If DeBoer didn't lose to Vanderbilt or Oklahoma in his first year he would have been considered a home run as well.
If he can somehow find a way to get a new basketball arena built, they should put a plaque with his name on the front of it.
If he can somehow find a way to get a new basketball arena built, they should put a plaque with his name on the front of it.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 2:48 pm to RolltidePA
Byrne Arena-has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 2:55 pm to RollTide33
My biggest and really only complaint against Byrne so far is how he handled(or didn’t) the Sankey/Bediako comments.
We needed to have someone push back against Sankey there and it should’ve been Byrne.
We needed to have someone push back against Sankey there and it should’ve been Byrne.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 7:15 pm to qman91
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'm not too privy on the other sports
Above average mixed bag so far in the sports I follow, VB and GYM.
Lindsey Devine (Volleyball) Nightmare. Nothing improved, she bailed after 4 seasons of nothing.
Rashinda Reed (Volleyball) is proving to be a slow burn. Cellar of a program that she's improved steadily every season.
Ashley Priess-Johnston (gymnastics). Up and down. She did well enough with the previous regime's athletes and then plummeted last year. This year has been a good rebound and they're #5 in the nation heading into the tournament.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:24 pm to RollTide33
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Withholding judgment until he gets through this coaching carousel with Nate Oats still wearing plaid.
He could give Oats the world but if he wants a job like UNC/KU and takes it that shouldn't reflect on Alabama's AD. Just like DeBoer leaving Washington days after losing the CFPNC shouldn't reflect on Washington's AD.
Posted on 3/26/26 at 5:56 am to qman91
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and the baseball coach hire was pretty good.
He's hired 2. Hiring one who'd conspire to bet against us is exceptionally awful.
Posted on 3/26/26 at 6:32 am to phil4bama
Byrne Oats Arena
Posted on 3/26/26 at 6:48 am to BamaDude06
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He could give Oats the world but if he wants a job like UNC/KU and takes it that shouldn't reflect on Alabama's AD. Just like DeBoer leaving Washington days after losing the CFPNC shouldn't reflect on Washington's AD.
Yeah it does, Washington AD should have went hostage taking mode
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:42 am to Diego Ricardo
Byrne is a solid AD
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:45 am to Granola
I hope Byrne is leaning heavily into his, "At a blueblood you will always exist in someone else's shadow, if you stay here future coaches will exist in your shadow," pitch with Oats.
Posted on 3/26/26 at 8:56 pm to Vulcan Materials
His grade could go from a TBD to a solid A+ if he would tell Sankey that Bama is bringing Pruitt back as an on-the-field defense coach.
Posted on 3/26/26 at 9:47 pm to TheTideMustRoll
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I hope Byrne is leaning heavily into his, "At a blueblood you will always exist in someone else's shadow, if you stay here future coaches will exist in your shadow," pitch with Oats.
Oats mentioned that very fact in an interview he did with one of the basketball podcasts back in 2020 or 2021. Said he talked to Brad Stevens after he at talked with Byrne but before he accepted the Alabama job and asked what his opinions were in regards to whether he should stay at Buffalo like he had done for a few years at Butler or take a job at a football focused school like Alabama and that Brad told him something to the effect of "If I ever leave the NBA to return to college it would be at a football first school so I don't have to be the face of the athletic department like I was at Butler and I can just focus on coaching basketball."
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:00 pm to Vulcan Materials
Byrne is a fantastic AD. You’re not going to bat 1.000 on replacing coaches, but he’s doing pretty well. You can tell that coaches love to work with him.
Posted on 3/26/26 at 10:24 pm to BamaDude06
Billy Donovan said the same thing at UF.
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