BamaDude06

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I think it’s funny people think in 2026 that these major sports leagues are mostly dependent on ticket sales.

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Baseball is largely dependent on regional sports networks which have collapsed in the last few years. A Louisiana team is just not going to get anywhere close to what most of the other teams do for their broadcasting rights.

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God they’re such whiny bitches

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"We have to stay in a Westin when we play there instead of a five star hotel" was what another player said. Paid millions to play fricking kids game and cry because they stay in a Westin. GTFO here man.

I look forward to seeing the MAGA Attorney Generals (lead by Ohio's Dave Yost) whose original lawsuit against the NCAA saying limiting transfers was unconstitutional now try and walk their words back to appease Daddy.

Can't refute what I said can you? Proved you wrong and now you're butthurt :lol:

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He's let an MVP 1B, gold glove SS, perennial top 3 Cy Young pitcher all walk in FA and traded away two franchise catchers in their pre-arb years... all within the last 5 years.

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Max Fried received Cy Young votes in 2020 and 2022. That's it as a Brave. He was great for the Braves but he's not going to live up to that contract. Neither is Dansby for that matter. He's got a strict budget to stick to and either of those would have caused major damage to that.

Y'all have to let Freddie go man. Chipper told him if he was serious about staying in Atlanta he should take the Braves offer because if he went to free agency he wouldn't come back. Also warned him "Alex has a job to do" saying he wasn't going to wait around forever. If he waits until Freddie signs with LA to get Matt then the cost goes up even higher than it was.

Now you CAN fault him for doing nothing to try and shore up the rotation this year given all the injuries they had last year.

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Uconn hired Hurley from Rhode Island though.

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That's right my bad.

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You don't need to go to a blueblood anymore to win big.

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When was the last time one of those legitimately "stole" a coach away though? Duke promoted from within, as did UNC last, UCONN hired the Vermont coach, UCLA is nothing but retreads and mid majors because they're always broke, etc. Was Roy Williams "mama calling" the last time it really happened? Even then he turned them down three years before.

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I hope Byrne is leaning heavily into his, "At a blueblood you will always exist in someone else's shadow, if you stay here future coaches will exist in your shadow," pitch with Oats.

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Oats mentioned that very fact in an interview he did with one of the basketball podcasts back in 2020 or 2021. Said he talked to Brad Stevens after he at talked with Byrne but before he accepted the Alabama job and asked what his opinions were in regards to whether he should stay at Buffalo like he had done for a few years at Butler or take a job at a football focused school like Alabama and that Brad told him something to the effect of "If I ever leave the NBA to return to college it would be at a football first school so I don't have to be the face of the athletic department like I was at Butler and I can just focus on coaching basketball."

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Withholding judgment until he gets through this coaching carousel with Nate Oats still wearing plaid.

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He could give Oats the world but if he wants a job like UNC/KU and takes it that shouldn't reflect on Alabama's AD. Just like DeBoer leaving Washington days after losing the CFPNC shouldn't reflect on Washington's AD.

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Also noticed her looking to her husband in crucial moments to draw up a play etc

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His bio on Rolltide.com says he's the "offensive coordinator."

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The WNBA is still (financially) all smoke and mirrors that's critically dependent on massive hand outs from the NBA. Not exactly a stable and sustainable business process.

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So is virtually every single college athletic program in America