🏀 With the win over UK, Oats sets a new UA record for wins over AP top 25 teams. Another one that won't get as much attention ...

[TerryP]

If I'm not mistaken, he's the only coach who has swept Kentucky more than once in UA basketball history.

As inevitable as they are I get tired of comparisons of one coach to another: here with Sanderson and his wins over top 25 teams. Alas, Oats and his plaid jackets ...

 

[Bammerboy321]

Wimp was here 12 years. Oats has surpassed it with half the time. Again, I know we've extended him every season, but just lock him in for good. If an NBA team throws ridiculous money at him and he goes, oh well. But no college team should even think about calling him because of the contract.

 

[Bammerboy321]

If I'm not mistaken, Grant was like 1-21 vs ranked opponents after year two. Avery was a bit better, but struggled mightily vs elite teams and below .500 teams.

Still wild to think where the program is at the moment.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Wimp was here 12 years. Oats has surpassed it with half the time. Again, I know we've extended him every season, but just lock him in for good. If an NBA team throws ridiculous money at him and he goes, oh well. But no college team should even think about calling him because of the contract.

Contracts are for recruiting. ...if someone throws big time at him. We need to match.
Build him his new bball palace. ...the millionaire bama boosters need to pony up ...

 

[TerryP]

What the coach wants:	Logic personified watching:	What fans want:
NIL Practice facility		Build an arena

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

So what you're saying is..


We're a Basketball school now?

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

What the coach wants:	Logic personified watching:	What fans want:
NIL Practice facility		Build an arena

Exactly!

Build a fookn multipurpose arena with an ice subfloor so that our club hockey team doesn't have to spend their own money driving to Pell-ham every week for practice and games.

 

[TerryP]

Exactly!

Build a fookn multipurpose arena with an ice subfloor so that our club hockey team doesn't have to spend their own money driving to Pell-ham every week for practice and games.

I don't think people realize what they are asking for with the new arena, to be honest. With the way designing and archetypal (stream of consciousness writing led to the wrong word, but it fits) architectural plans have been the last few years we're looking at what's basically an airport concourse which happens to have a basketball court.

I think I mentioned this in the game thread for Bama visiting Texas a few weeks ago. A friend of mine went to that game and described their new arena as "sterile." I want to smell popcorn when I walk in the door. Hell, if it smelled like a gym I wouldn't be upset: I'd be ready for some basketball.

The word "sterile" when describing a building for sporting events? Dude. Nothing about that appeals to me, at all.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

The word "sterile" when describing a building for sporting events? Dude. Nothing about that appeals to me, at all.

Same

 

[UAgrad93]

Wimp was here 12 years. Oats has surpassed it with half the time. Again, I know we've extended him every season, but just lock him in for good. If an NBA team throws ridiculous money at him and he goes, oh well. But no college team should even think about calling him because of the contract.

Oats said in the post game presser when asked about passing Wimp, he made sure to let everyone know the talent pool in the league now is a lot DEEPER!

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I don't think people realize what they are asking for with the new arena, to be honest. With the way designing and archetypal (stream of consciousness writing led to the wrong word, but it fits) architectural plans have been the last few years we're looking at what's basically an airport concourse which happens to have a basketball court.

I think I mentioned this in the game thread for Bama visiting Texas a few weeks ago. A friend of mine went to that game and described their new arena as "sterile." I want to smell popcorn when I walk in the door. Hell, if it smelled like a gym I wouldn't be upset: I'd be ready for some basketball.

The word "sterile" when describing a building for sporting events? Dude. Nothing about that appeals to me, at all.

No. Thats why "state of art" is important. But... i never expect it anymore. Had hopes once. But NIL has killed the flow of money from facilities to players.
And cost of "state of art" is astronomical...like all things ....

One day ...maybe.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Lots of awesome history in Coleman.

But continuing to "reconfigure" and "update" it is like scooping the still-soft innards out of a turd that's started drying on the outside and replacing said innards.

It's still a turd.

It wasn't... Once.

But, practically everybody (it seems) in the OG 12-team SEC has newer game facilities.

We have ourselves a generational coach.

Let's build him a NEW arena, for Pete's sake.