Alabama Baseball Disaster

[ricky023]

we seem to be doing well is other sports. How does the lottery only bring us down in Baseball?

I am waiting to see the understanding on this one. RTR!

[pmull]

we seem to be doing well is other sports. How does the lottery only bring us down in Baseball?

Football gets 85 scholarships. Basketball gets 13 which equals the entire team. Rarely does a walk-on play in either of these sports. Baseball gets 11.7 scholarships. We have 37 on the roster. We have 16 pitchers alone. We normally play 4 games a week and that uses 12-15 pitchers. Softball for example uses 3 for the entire year.

Baseball scholarships are offered out in 25% increments to make them go further. Stud players still require a full ride. A kid we offer 25% pays the other 75%. The same kid in Georgia gets 25% and another 50% from the Hope Scholarship and he only pays the remaining 25%.  It makes their scholarships go much further.

Alabama needs a lottery scholarship for more than just our baseball team. Most families are going into debt to put their kids through college. Kids are graduating with 10 years of student loan debt to repay.

[Marshal Dillon]

we seem to be doing well is other sports. How does the lottery only bring us down in Baseball?

Football gets 85 scholarships. Basketball gets 13 which equals the entire team. Rarely does a walk-on play in either of these sports. Baseball gets 11.7 scholarships. We have 37 on the roster. We have 16 pitchers alone. We normally play 4 games a week and that uses 12-15 pitchers. Softball for example uses 3 for the entire year.

Baseball scholarships are offered out in 25% increments to make them go further. Stud players still require a full ride. A kid we offer 25% pays the other 75%. The same kid in Georgia gets 25% and another 50% from the Hope Scholarship and he only pays the remaining 25%.  It makes their scholarships go much further.

Alabama needs a lottery scholarship for more than just our baseball team. Most families are going into debt to put their kids through college. Kids are graduating with 10 years of student loan debt to repay.

Part of the problem is kids go $30,000-$50,000 in debt to be teacher, which pays $45-$55,000 a year. Or get a degree they will never use. The census had something like 200,000 folks listing their job as secretarial with college degrees, 80,000 bartenders with degrees, and so on. Just how many Literature, Art History, Sociology, Urban Studies, History, Political Science, & other liberal arts degrees do we really need?


 

[bama57]

we seem to be doing well is other sports. How does the lottery only bring us down in Baseball?

Football gets 85 scholarships. Basketball gets 13 which equals the entire team. Rarely does a walk-on play in either of these sports. Baseball gets 11.7 scholarships. We have 37 on the roster. We have 16 pitchers alone. We normally play 4 games a week and that uses 12-15 pitchers. Softball for example uses 3 for the entire year.

Baseball scholarships are offered out in 25% increments to make them go further. Stud players still require a full ride. A kid we offer 25% pays the other 75%. The same kid in Georgia gets 25% and another 50% from the Hope Scholarship and he only pays the remaining 25%.  It makes their scholarships go much further.

Alabama needs a lottery scholarship for more than just our baseball team. Most families are going into debt to put their kids through college. Kids are graduating with 10 years of student loan debt to repay.

Thanks! I can understand this better now.Living in Tennessee I should have been more educated on the role of the lottery. I knew the lottery generated millions for college education, but, didn't realize how it could play such an important role in the scholarship program in regards to baseball

[pmull]

Alabama beats Auburn twice yesterday 4-3 & 7-6. We win our first SEC series of the season. We had lost 13 straight SEC games and we went to #9 (#1 SEC West) Auburn and beat them in Auburn.

We are still not very good and last place in the league. But for one weekend we went to Auburn and beat their azz. Roll Tide!

[XBAMA]

Alabama beats Auburn twice yesterday 4-3 & 7-6. We win our first SEC series of the season. We had lost 13 straight SEC games and we went to #9 (#1 SEC West) Auburn and beat them in Auburn.

We are still not very good and last place in the league. But for one weekend we went to Auburn and beat their azz. Roll Tide!

 

[2Stater]

Alabama beats Auburn twice yesterday 4-3 & 7-6. We win our first SEC series of the season. We had lost 13 straight SEC games and we went to #9 (#1 SEC West) Auburn and beat them in Auburn.

We are still not very good and last place in the league. But for one weekend we went to Auburn and beat their azz. Roll Tide!

The silver lining. 

[pmull]

Bama gets the sweep winning Game 3 11-9 in 15 innings. It last over 6 hours and was the longest game in Alabama Baseball history.

The win improved Alabama to 5-19 in SEC play. We have two series remaining with Florida and Vandy. The season has been a disaster but we can finish strong and gain some confidence going into the off season. We are still in last place by 2 games. We need to finish 12th to get to the SEC Tournament.

Auburn game into the series in overall 1st place in the SEC with a 14-7 record. We leave Auburn with them at 14-10 and tied for 6th. They looked like a sure bet to host a regional but that is now in jeopardy.

A very good weekend for the team!

[2Stater]

If they are only going to win one SEC series, this is the one I'd want. 

[Chechem]

Bwaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha!!   

Stupid AUBS!!

[Marshal Dillon]

Bama gets the sweep winning Game 3 11-9 in 15 innings. It last over 6 hours and was the longest game in Alabama Baseball history.

The win improved Alabama to 5-19 in SEC play. We have two series remaining with Florida and Vandy. The season has been a disaster but we can finish strong and gain some confidence going into the off season. We are still in last place by 2 games. We need to finish 12th to get to the SEC Tournament.

Auburn game into the series in overall 1st place in the SEC with a 14-7 record. We leave Auburn with them at 14-10 and tied for 6th. They looked like a sure bet to host a regional but that is now in jeopardy.

A very good weekend for the team!

I started listening to the game in 7th inning. Some very gruesome officiating by umpires with egregious bad calls against both teams. At least they were consistently wrong with both teams.


 

[pmull]

Chandler Taylor is SEC player of the week after leading Bama to a sweep of Auburn.

Taylor powered an Alabama offense that helped the Crimson Tide complete the three-game sweep of fourth-ranked Auburn on the Plains this past weekend. The sophomore finished at a .500 (7-14) clip that included two doubles, three home runs, three RBI, five runs scored, and three walks to lead the Alabama offense in every statistical category. He finished with a team-high 1.286 slugging percentage for the three-game series, tallying five extra-base hits, and totaled 16 bases by the end of Sunday’s 15-inning marathon finale.

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[pmull]

Bama beat Grambling last night 12-2 in 8 innings.

[Marshal Dillon]

Talking about baseball scholarships is something I don't get. We had a $67 mil profit 2 years ago, so why not pay for some baseball schollys? Like I said, I'm lost on this problem.



 

[Chechem]

Know the NCAA rules on scholarships...

HTH

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