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Posted on 12/5/13 at 3:43 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 12/5/13 at 3:43 pm to Ace Midnight
Well lets go booster wise, can TAF match the Gumps or are we a couple billionaires short?
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Posted on 12/5/13 at 3:46 pm to GREENHEAD22
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Well lets go booster wise, can TAF match the Gumps or are we a couple billionaires short?
LSU may have as many billionaire boosters as Alabama, but none of them are going to fork over their money for a coach like Bama boosters would. Football is important here. But it's not Alabama important.
Posted on 12/5/13 at 3:46 pm to GREENHEAD22
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Well lets go booster wise, can TAF match the Gumps or are we a couple billionaires short?
In the end any big school could probably get their wealthy alumni to pool money together and pay a coach an outrageous amount of money. Alabama is just one of the few schools with the willingness to do it.
It's fun to crack jokes about how Alabamians take football way too seriously and it's all they have going for them...but you can't say that out of one side of your mouth and then scoff at Alabama being below Texas when it comes to the importance of the sport and willingness to pony up money
Posted on 12/5/13 at 3:51 pm to GREENHEAD22
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Well lets go booster wise, can TAF match the Gumps or are we a couple billionaires short?
TAF got a little late start, and it was rough at the beginning. Bama was ahead of us on PSLs and things like that.
The states are comparably sized and we have lots of oil and gas money. We also only have 1 big league program in the state. We're probably competitive. However, Bama still has an edge because they certainly have more fans, nationwide.
Again, in a raw bidding war, Bama probably wins - but we have that in-state talent pool that is probably unmatched, percapita - California, Texas and Florida all have multiple big leage schools, plus OOS poachers. Mississippi and Alabama each have 2 schools in the SEC. We have, probably, the richest pool of talent that the in-state big school gets a first, exclusive look/shot at, albeit it is light on QBs and OL, particularly, over the years.
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