This. Our fanbase fucking blows sometimes.
Oats stayed at Alabama because 1.) he’s shown he can get it to the FF, and it follows the Florida mold where you have all the time you need because football is #1 so just make sure you’re not embarrassing them and you’re golden and 2.) his buyout was super large, and he got assurances from Alabama about a new arena.
Just because football is king doesn’t mean you can’t have a top notch basketball program. The Texas job will always be attractive because the pressure is less, the money is good, and the recruiting. You will get time to build your program here and can turn it into a Florida or what Alabama is trying to become. Beard was on his way to doing that.
Why does this feel like a game where A&M is so confident they will win and it will be a blowout win for them that they come out and try to do too much and walk home with the L?
It really depends on who the radical right will coalesce around. If it’s Vance, then you need someone like Newsom or Shapiro to punch back and down on the magatards. I think Vance is the magatard’s final hope of keeping whatever the fuck they are alive.
If it’s someone more “traditional” like Raphael Cruz, Thune, or Rubio, then someone like Kelly could work.
There was no one higher that Miller that was coming.
Oats wasn’t leaving Alabama. TJ wasn’t leaving Iowa State.
I’m not sure who you realistically thought we were getting. Miller has a huge upside. It was game 6 of his 1st year here.