re: Is Avery Johnson's contract really 6 years 18 million?

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Don't think he's actually concerned

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He sounds concerned. He even pointed out that Alabama's ability to pay/overpay is driving up the cost of doing business for schools like MSU that cannot afford it as much.

Whether Alabama overpaid or not will be determined by the monetary ROI for the basketball program and the athletic department as a whole. Most people said that giving Saban $4 million a year in 2007 was a bad financial decision too, but that has paid for itself many times over from a strictly monetary viewpoint (not to mention the championships). We will see in a couple of years the monetary impact the Johnson hire has to Alabama's athletic revenue and determine then whether it was a good financial decision.

If Battle thought this was the best choice for Alabama after Marshall and this was the amount that it took to get Johnson to say yes, then he didn't overpay. Now it could turn out to be a bad hire and bad financial move, but none of us know that yet.