re: The Alabama athletic department is a dump.

This has to be a joke. Auburn is pinching pennies, the new AD just cut 10% across ALL sports programs. Including basketball where Bruce took them to their first final four AND in baseball where Butch to them to the CWS AND equestrian who won a championship. WTF? What a shitty way to treat 3 successful coaches.

Yet they have a highly over paid football staff that hasn’t been able to turn in a season with less than 4-5 losses for the last 5 yrs despite all the talent they bring in.

Pinch pennies, transport your athletes on a bus when your main rivals are using a jet. House your athletes in discount hotels while your rivals are staying in top hotels, and keep putting those much needed facility improvements on the back burner and see how much further AU recruiting slides. While UA/LSU/aTm surpass you in the West.