re: UA Basketball Recruiting

Whoever draws up our contracts STILL hasn’t learned. I love what Oats is doing so far. But he has yet to coach a game in the SEC and all the risk in the first few years of that contract is on Alabama. Nate has no skin in the game. He could decide tomorrow that we can’t fire him for 3 years because it would be too expensive, prop his feet up and relax. Not likely but still...those contracts are DUMB!! And all as a knee-jerk reaction to a report that Michigan MIGHT be interested. I hope we have to fight those battles in 3 years, and I honestly think we will. But not yet. Make it $4 million a year for the first 3 years then taper it. In 3 years, we’ll be asking to up him or we’ll be ready to let him go and in year 4, it won’t hurt us to do it.

I can’t believe a law school as prestigious as Alabama’s can’t draw up a simple contract for a coach that is balanced for both sides and makes sense.