Some perspective on Pat Murphy

I have no clue about his career but I can never imagine Nick Saban coaching women's sports.

I don't give a frick if you are Geno Auremma (sp?) you shouldn't be coaching women's sports.

With all that said not sure why he didn't run your G1 starter the full 7 instead of making her pitch both.

You go for the deathstroke when you have the advantage.

They just lost to the most expensive softball team in history. I bet if Alabama had snagged Canady, Terry, Burns, Williams. Pannell, and Lis through the portal they would have won. Texas Tech’s roster is composed of 15 (of 23) transfers. They had Canady, the highest paid softball player in history - and Stanford’s best player. They also snagged UCLA’s best player, All- American Terry. They snagged Tennessee’s beat player All-american Pannell. They snagged Ohio States best player, All-American Jasmyn Burns. They snagged the best player in the G5, All-American Jackie Lis. And they took all-american Mia Williams from Florida.

Texas Tech’s roster is an all-star roster. They had 4 all-americans this season, and two that were all-americans at their previous school. Six of their nine players on the field were all-americans. By comparison Alabama had one All-american.

I don’t think Alabama can afford to keep up with them. They went from never making a super regional in school history to making it to the WCWS two years in a row now.

The amount of oil money being poured into Texas Tech NIL is insane. They are spending more than any other school in the country across multiple sports. The estimate is they will spend $60 million on NIL plus the $20 million in revenue sharing. The idea of having an $80 million dollar payroll in college sports is insane.

For all those complaining about Murphy - he is Alabama softball. The idea of firing a coach who has made it to 16 of 29 WCWS while he has been Alabama’s coach is insane.

So who do you replace him with that is sure to do better? And how much will it cost? And how much are we willing to spend on the roster? $5 million? We obviously aren’t spending much now. Alabama has only three transfer players on the roster. And Alabama regularly started two true freshmen.

The fact that Alabama was one of the last four teams still playing is amazing considering all that.

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I'm sure even I myself could coach the softball team into not winning a national title.

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Who will win a conference championship 1/3 of the time, make the WCWS over 1/2 the time, make the championship game every 10 years or so and win a national championship every 15 years or so.

Who can Alabama hire that will do that? Because if they can’t do that or better than we’d be better off with Murphy.

Once you get this better coach, how much are you willing to spend to be able to field a roster capable of beating the Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and UCLA rosters of the world.

Who do you suggest? And who is going to pitch in the $5 million a year to spend on softball NIL?