Major baseball problems at Alabama

[TNVOLFN]

How had I not heard about the lawsuit?

Alabama baseball coach Brad Bohannon among three sued over alleged mistreatment of former player

Honestly, not surprised this wasn't news, just because it does seem frivolous.

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

Sankey will be so livid about this. He'll suspend Tony Vitello for a series.

 

[VolGirl81]

Assault, murder, taking a gun to the murder, point shaving…..I smell lack of institutional control

You smell it, I smell it, we all smell it except for the SEC and NCAA. They smell nothing but roses from bama.

 

[drylo]

They got so pissed at Saban's handling of Jermaine Burton hitting a girl and Nate Oates's handling of Brandon Miller that they fired the Baseball Coach!

Well, if not for double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.

 

[Jax_Vol]

I posted this on another site:

At best, Bohannon unintentionally or innocently shared information with someone who then passed that information to bad actors.

At worst, he knowingly had someone do that for him.

Whatever it was, the administration thought it warranted immediate termination – the same administration that isn’t exactly known for being strict on their coaches.

Leads you down same trail as Pete Rose. Even if Pete / Brad are merely wagering $5 on info, others watch and learn that there is an insider source.

Then, the bad actors / big money wades into it.

I do the same with Old Timer in the pick'em thread. Wait for his selection, then call my man at Bellagio, and tell him to throw a hundred dimes on Vols having a two bunt weekend.

 

[Jax_Vol]

They got so pissed at Saban's handling of Jermaine Burton hitting a girl and Nate Oates's handling of Brandon Miller that they fired the Baseball Coach!

Their swimming coach better quit whizzing in the pool.. he is on double secret probation.

 

[VOLfrombama]

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch

 

[fryeguy93]

They promoted the Pitching Coach to interim HC, he was also named in the lawsuit, so I bet (get it) this is strictly related to wahtever the Bammer admin uncovered in their investigation into the gambling issue.

excellent point.

but there may actually be a third problem that's not widely known.

I still have trouble believing it's gambling.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

You smell it, I smell it, we all smell it except for the SEC and NCAA. They smell nothing but roses from bama.

To quote Outkast, roses smell like poo poo poo (which may be the smell with their head so far up Saban's/Bama's ass..)

 

[Jax_Vol]

excellent point.

but there may actually be a third problem that's not widely known.

I still have trouble believing it's gambling.

I don't know. We got some guys from "Vanderbilt" looking for Brad this afternoon..

 

[TNVOLFN]

Their swimming coach better quit whizzing in the pool.. he is on double secret probation.

Swim coach is history after the Bama basketball recruit was caught with dirt weed.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Nate Oats facing zero repercussions and Bohannon being fired is kind of everything wrong with college athletics. Consequences don’t exist as long as you’re making money for your university.

 

[OldTimer]

from another message board........TIFWIW

"My nephews best friend is a current Bama baseball commit. He was told that a player on the team bet on Bama to lose the Friday game against LSU after Bama scratched their starter 45 minutes before first pitch. Coach Brad Bohanan got word of it but never reported it and now he got axed. That's the true story"

Seriously, Alabama facing Skeenes on Friday, who wouldn't bet them to lose anyway...........going to be real interesting to see how this plays out

 

[preacherman20]

This allow them to fire him with calls, which keeps them from having to pay him anything, and they can use that money to pay off their part of lawsuit

 

[Volfan1000]

One has to think this is somehow related to the sports betting news

It will be interesting to see who replaces Bohannon and if AD Byrne survives the Miller and this scandal unscathed.

 

[preacherman20]

Hear UGA may be open after this year also so that could be three SEC schools if MSU does not play decent over next 3 weeks.

 

[HollowaytoSeivers]

They got so pissed at Saban's handling of Jermaine Burton hitting a girl and Nate Oates's handling of Brandon Miller that they fired the Baseball Coach!

The Bama Way

 

[DownTheField]

Wrong place, wrong time....

He should have assaulted a 90 lb woman after a football game and AD Saban would have been OK with it...

He could have been accessory to murder and no one would have blinked an eye

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Counter to what the message board poster said. Interesting to see how this played out.

 

[VolBallGuy]

At least he didn’t do anything as bad as ignorantly assisting a murderer or slapping a girl after a football game while in pads.

 

[bonnieandclyde]

Nate Oats facing zero repercussions and Bohannon being fired is kind of everything wrong with college athletics. Consequences don’t exist as long as you’re making money for your university.

The two are vastly different. Miller acted on his own, and Oates really didn’t have anything to do with it other than Miller playing for him. On the other hand, it sounds to me like Bohannon was responsible for these actions

 

[Jax_Vol]

He could have been accessory to murder and no one would have blinked an eye

Brandon Miller....already dropped out of school. Back in the hood of L.A. = Lower Antioch.

We need to make Greg Sankey live in Lower Antioch for a few months.

 

[05_never_again]

Nate Oats facing zero repercussions and Bohannon being fired is kind of everything wrong with college athletics. Consequences don’t exist as long as you’re making money for your university.

As bad as Nate Oats acted during the Brandon Miller saga, Oats was guilty of tone deafness and just overall looking horrible.

I doubt it would come to this, but if Bohannon was involved in run shaving or throwing games, it's possible he could go to prison.

 

[OldTimer]

Counter to what the message board poster said. Interesting to see how this played out.

I cannot fathom the notion of the idea that the internet poster I quoted was incorrect in his assessment

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

from another message board........TIFWIW

"My nephews best friend is a current Bama baseball commit. He was told that a player on the team bet on Bama to lose the Friday game against LSU after Bama scratched their starter 45 minutes before first pitch. Coach Brad Bohanan got word of it but never reported it and now he got axed. That's the true story"

Seriously, Alabama facing Skeenes on Friday, who wouldn't bet them to lose anyway...........going to be real interesting to see how this plays out

I call BS on this message board claim. The books stopped taking bets because of the $$$ involved. Players don't have that kind of cash to cause that...