Bama & Coach Johnson negotiating contract buyout

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Suttles just stated as well that he understands that Byrne has been given permission by the PTB to make “that home run hire”. If that is the case, I know a couple of names I would like to hear that he at least made a phone call to gauge their interest.
Hire Barnes away from UT.
Billy Donovan
Brad Scott


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I guess I'm snakebitten because Coleman has been reno'd some in my lifetime and the core problems with the cavernous space and litany of bad seating areas have never been address in a truly corrective manner.
Yeah, the volume of the space is probably a bigger can of worms to deal with.
 

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I keep reading about renovation, but have any of you seen Duke's facility from the inside? I personally think Coleman is nicer on the inside than Duke's but I don't attend a lot of basketball games.
Coleman was built as a generic, multi-purpose arena that was outdated design-wise a decade after it opened. Cameron is old, quirky and, like Fenway, an unmistakable living shrine to its sport.
 
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I think most of it will be re-working seats for better use. Too many seats for a contemporary college basketball program. And me being 6'4 ... here's hoping the make the seats bigger and maximize on the space for comfort.
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I'm 6'2" - 250 and have broad shoulders, so i'm in the same boat that you're in. I love Bama basketball and every year the first time i go to a game i remind myself that i won't be back. Just painfully uncomfortable in the too tight seating arrangement. People who design sports facilities need to understand that more than 50% of spectators/attendees are typically male, and are larger than females. Make it comfortable and you're likely to get more steady attendance. Same goes for Bryant Denny. When i go to a game there i usually am ready to leave at halftime and hoof it to watch the end of the game somewhere where i don't feel crammed into a sardine can.
 

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I guess I'm snakebitten because Coleman has been reno'd some in my lifetime and the core problems with the cavernous space and litany of bad seating areas have never been address in a truly corrective manner.
I understand this, but there’s a difference in previous renovations (more like upgrades) and this renovation (complete gutting).


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Hire Barnes away from UT.
Billy Donovan
Brad Scott


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I think Brad Scott is off the table. He’s busy coaching receivers for Dabo at Clemson.

Now Michael Scott mIght be available. I’m sure Dunder Mifflin would mind us talking to him.

Now Brad Stevens might be a little busy with the Celtics right now.
 

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I think Brad Scott is off the table. He’s busy coaching receivers for Dabo at Clemson.

Now Michael Scott mIght be available. I’m sure Dunder Mifflin would mind us talking to him.

Now Brad Stevens might be a little busy with the Celtics right now.
Thanks. Got busy and mixed names together.


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I'm 6'2" - 250 and have broad shoulders, so i'm in the same boat that you're in. I love Bama basketball and every year the first time i go to a game i remind myself that i won't be back. Just painfully uncomfortable in the too tight seating arrangement. People who design sports facilities need to understand that more than 50% of spectators/attendees are typically male, and are larger than females. Make it comfortable and you're likely to get more steady attendance. Same goes for Bryant Denny. When i go to a game there i usually am ready to leave at halftime and hoof it to watch the end of the game somewhere where i don't feel crammed into a sardine can.
Um, ever been to Neyland? :D
 

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From what I have heard, it might have been designed with folks like me in mind.

Or, to put it another way..................there is a reason my house has "Early American" furniture. (Translation: it fits.)
 

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Coleman was built as a generic, multi-purpose arena that was outdated design-wise a decade after it opened. Cameron is old, quirky and, like Fenway, an unmistakable living shrine to its sport.
I have a feeling that if Duke had played in Coleman the last twenty-five years while Bama had played in Cameron that people would say nice things about Coleman and terrible things about Cameron. Cameron is too small. We can't attract top recruits with this outdated little high school gym. It looks like a regular building while UNC plays in a palace. Yeah, I don't think the building is the problem. I'm sure that newer and nicer facilities would help in the future, but I don't think Coleman Coliseum is why we have been very, very average for the last twenty-five years.
 
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The national media seems to have been quiet about the Johnson firing. Vandy gets blasted for getting rid of a guy after going 0-19 in the league. Yet they ignore we cannned a coach with a better (albeit mediocre) record.


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The national media seems to have been quiet about the Johnson firing. Vandy gets blasted for getting rid of a guy after going 0-19 in the league. Yet they ignore we cannned a coach with a better (albeit mediocre) record.


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I think the reason is that a good chunk of the basketball public got a good look at his product on the court at the end of the season - and remembered his NBA career...
 

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The national media seems to have been quiet about the Johnson firing. Vandy gets blasted for getting rid of a guy after going 0-19 in the league. Yet they ignore we cannned a coach with a better (albeit mediocre) record.


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Reads like you are saying Avery Johnson is fired?

When?

Source?
 
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I have a feeling that if Duke had played in Coleman the last twenty-five years while Bama had played in Cameron that people would say nice things about Coleman and terrible things about Cameron. Cameron is too small. We can't attract top recruits with this outdated little high school gym. It looks like a regular building while UNC plays in a palace. Yeah, I don't think the building is the problem. I'm sure that newer and nicer facilities would help in the future, but I don't think Coleman Coliseum is why we have been very, very average for the last twenty-five years.
And if we had Mike K we wouldn't have been one and done in the first round of the NIT.
We do not have the cache of Duke, UNC, UK, etc. A new arena for them doesn't make sense. Like Coach Saban they can show plenty of hardware to get recruits. We can't.
I've been inside Coleman since the last "renovation" and there's really not much difference in the before and after. Yeah, if we want to step it up and up our program we need a new arena. That's not the end all be all and won't cure all our woes but you can't keep putting a band-aid on a ruptured artery and call yourself a good physician. You want to get a good/great coach and players to come to Bama you gotta first indicate that the program is important. If not, just go and beg Avery Johnson to come back.
 

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Reads like you are saying Avery Johnson is fired?

When?

Source?
Today's Tuscaloosa News says that negotiations are ongoing. And that Avery has told the team and his staff that he will not be back next year.

https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/20190323/buyout-negotiations-continue-with-alabama-avery-johnson

Additionally, a personal friend who is not in the Athletic Department, but who is in a position to know, told me face to face that negotiations have been ongoing for a while now.

The chances of Avery Johnson being our coach next year are about the same as me winning the PowerBall.

Fired? Negotiated exit? I don't know, and the difference at this point is semantic. He's not going to be our coach next year. What difference does it make if he was fired or there was a negotiated exit?
 
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