Nate Oats

[huntercork]

If the University does not invest in this man then I will be done with UA Basketball. There are several basketball powers that are going to come after him this year. Coleman coliseum has to be replaced!! It’s a fossil. Give coach “Hope” and flex the power of this university and do so for Basketball!!

 

[Zachary Hubbard]

Oats current salary is 2.45 million which isn’t bad but they might want to renew the contract with a higher salary. Also the plans for Coleman coliseum are out there. Believe it’s a 100 million dollar renovation coming within the next year or two

 

[mekonic]

If the University does not invest in this man then I will be done with UA Basketball. There are several basketball powers that are going to come after him this year. Coleman coliseum has to be replaced!! It’s a fossil. Give coach “Hope” and flex the power of this university and do so for Basketball!!

also don't forget that bama is #18 in the rankings now. great team...better coach.

 

[AnInterestedParty]

Make no mistake. Alabama is going to do a $100 million renovation on the Coliseum, and Oats is going to get a big raise and contract extension.

 

[AJTide365]

That guy has come in and done thing’s unheard of in Alabama basketball!!! They are killing SEC foes this year.

Get him whatever he needs!

 

[tydzbk]

If the University does not invest in this man then I will be done with UA Basketball. There are several basketball powers that are going to come after him this year. Coleman coliseum has to be replaced!! It’s a fossil. Give coach “Hope” and flex the power of this university and do so for Basketball!!

Exactly! Do this NOW!

 

[wna1911]

Oats current salary is 2.45 million which isn’t bad but they might want to renew the contract with a higher salary. Also the plans for Coleman coliseum are out there. Believe it’s a 100 million dollar renovation coming within the next year or two

Needs to be THIS YEAR. Next year at the latest. Enough talk. It is time to get moving.

 

[bamaman2988]

Hope the administration doesn’t drop the ball with Oats, would set the basketball program back 15 years.

 

[Bama!]

If the University does not invest in this man then I will be done with UA Basketball. There are several basketball powers that are going to come after him this year. Coleman coliseum has to be replaced!! It’s a fossil. Give coach “Hope” and flex the power of this university and do so for Basketball!!

We have to. We finally have what we are looking for.

 

[nelsontaylor555]

It is in the works on the new arena. Trust me.

 

[milso47]

If the University does not invest in this man then I will be done with UA Basketball. There are several basketball powers that are going to come after him this year. Coleman coliseum has to be replaced!! It’s a fossil. Give coach “Hope” and flex the power of this university and do so for Basketball!!

i love coleman. needs a few tweeks, but it a a nice arena.

coach oats has stated that likes coleman and can recruit to it. he has already proved that

 

[dleet]

It is in the works on the new arena. Trust me.

New arena? Or Coleman renovations? I think we have put enough lipstick on Coleman, it is time for a new state of the art arena!

 

[xcop]

Ok you guys remember this thread and don't try to run him off if we lose a couple of games we should win or the first game in the tourney. Eventually we will get even better than we are now. RTR

 

[Sweetlou10]

i love coleman. needs a few tweeks, but it a a nice arena.

coach oats has stated that likes coleman and can recruit to it. he has already proved that

Love ya Milso, but Coleman is the absolute worst.

 

[huntercork]

Oats current salary is 2.45 million which isn’t bad but they might want to renew the contract with a higher salary. Also the plans for Coleman coliseum are out there. Believe it’s a 100 million dollar renovation coming within the next year or two

Those “plans” have been out there for nearly a decade. Anthony Grant was promised, AVERY was promised as well, time to do it.

 

[Bama Swoosh]

Great post OP. What a homerun hire by our AD. Oats is a visionary and everyone and their mother are coming for him, probably already reaching out. I realize we may not hit 23 triples every game and may lose again one day, but I am 100% sold on Oats. It's a fantastic product and not a flash in the pan. Thankfully I do have a lot of faith in AD Byrne.

 

[TideFever]

It was my understanding that the Coleman renovation was pushed back indefinitely and potential plans would be revisited later this year or early 2022. That was before the virus wrecked their balance sheet. So unless donors stroke checks for a minimum of half the cost then a new arena isn't even going to be drawn up before 2023.

As always if you give them 100 million or so earmarked for a basketball arena they'll get the ball rolling today.

Everyone talks about the athletic dept rolling in cash but they carry a lot of debt service and bond obligations on all the BD expansions and renovations and various other facility upgrades and expansions (baseball, softball, swimming/diving etc). The current phase 1 renovations with BD and other facilities just added to that debt after the capital campaign didn't hit the numbers they had hoped to get. Then the attendance for football was crushed to 20% or less of BD capacity and a lot of donors held their money in lieu of not knowing what's coming.

Now, if this great run continues there's no reason they shouldn't make it clear to Oats that they appreciate what we're getting and will take care of the coaching salaries and the easier to manage benefits. I have a feeling Byrne is savvy enough to handle making sure Oats knows he'll be taken care of. But gigantic facility upgrades will take time and money.

 

[nelsontaylor555]

New arena? Or Coleman renovations? I think we have put enough lipstick on Coleman, it is time for a new state of the art arena!
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New arena? Or Coleman renovations? I think we have put enough lipstick on Coleman, it is time for a new state of the art arena!

Renovations

 

[ChingyFan24]

They should’ve broken ground on the new Coleman this year. They’ve known since May or June that we would not be able to put fans in the stands this year.

 

[nelsontaylor555]

Renovations are coming. Trust the process

 

[frazor]

I could be wrong but I just don't see an opening this year that would intrigue CNO unless Cal decided to quit. Even then Oats would probably be 4th or 5th on their list. Pay that man his money and support the program so that his list of suitors drops from 25 to 5. I'd be highly upset if he bolted for some middle of the pack ACC or BIG school.

 

[pfaud001]

I am fine with plans they put out to renovate Coleman. It will look awesome, and the seats will be close to the floor. Maybe our arena sucks, but the practice facility is great. If they fix Coleman and pay him, it would be very hard to leave.

 

[milso47]

It was my understanding that the Coleman renovation was pushed back indefinitely and potential plans would be revisited later this year or early 2022. That was before the virus wrecked their balance sheet. So unless donors stroke checks for a minimum of half the cost then a new arena isn't even going to be drawn up before 2023.

As always if you give them 100 million or so earmarked for a basketball arena they'll get the ball rolling today.

Everyone talks about the athletic dept rolling in cash but they carry a lot of debt service and bond obligations on all the BD expansions and renovations and various other facility upgrades and expansions (baseball, softball, swimming/diving etc). The current phase 1 renovations with BD and other facilities just added to that debt after the capital campaign didn't hit the numbers they had hoped to get. Then the attendance for football was crushed to 20% or less of BD capacity and a lot of donors held their money in lieu of not knowing what's coming.

Now, if this great run continues there's no reason they shouldn't make it clear to Oats that they appreciate what we're getting and will take care of the coaching salaries and the easier to manage benefits. I have a feeling Byrne is savvy enough to handle making sure Oats knows he'll be taken care of. But gigantic facility upgrades will take time and money.

you sir are correct

also mal raised and spent aroud 40 MIL on cole about 15 years ago. i always enjoy being there. great atmostphere when the team is playing well. nice rest rooms and concessioms with easy access

could use a little better lighting in the upper seats. a few tweeks in the studit seating.

 

[DrElliot]

Hope the administration doesn’t drop the ball with Oats, would set the basketball program back 15 years.

It's been almost 30 years since Wimp left and if we lose Oats it may that long again to find another coach who can work some magic here. I'm ignoring Gottfried having a few really great seasons, because of the way his tenure as coach at Alabama went in the dumpster.

 

[Hoot G]

New arena? Or Coleman renovations? I think we have put enough lipstick on Coleman, it is time for a new state of the art arena!

I agree

 

[mtmax]

I don't understand the issue with the plans to redo Coleman. If you tear it down to the foundation, isn't that essentially the same thing as building a new arena. My understanding is the only common element will be the concrete slab.

 

[bama100]

Renovating Coleman is an absolute joke. We need a new basketball arena. Smaller but with the fans right on the court and give us a true home court advantage. Why keep upgrading an old crappy fossil?

 

[NovaTiger77]

They should’ve broken ground on the new Coleman this year. They’ve known since May or June that we would not be able to put fans in the stands this year.

Ok let us know when your check clears.

 

[BaselineLeaner4]

New arena? Or Coleman renovations? I think we have put enough lipstick on Coleman, it is time for a new state of the art arena!

Love ya Milso, but Coleman is the absolute worst.

Renovating Coleman is an absolute joke. We need a new basketball arena. Smaller but with the fans right on the court and give us a true home court advantage. Why keep upgrading an old crappy fossil?

Agreed with all. Enough of the renovations - Coleman is a dungeon.

Time for something new.

 

[jtr4dad]

Renovating Coleman is an absolute joke. We need a new basketball arena. Smaller but with the fans right on the court and give us a true home court advantage. Why keep upgrading an old crappy fossil?

Why do so many want to go smaller? We've never had an issue selling tickets. If Oats gets us rolling, our current capacity of just over 15,000 won't be nearly big enough.

 

[TideFever]

Why do so many want to go smaller? We've never had an issue selling tickets. If Oats gets us rolling, our current capacity of just over 15,000 won't be nearly big enough.

I don't quite get this notion myself. I think some assume that fewer seats means the stands will be full more often but they're forgetting how Bama basketball crowds tend to work and how many season ticket holders leave their seats empty in early season games. Until football is done it could seat 7500 and not fill unless we're playing Duke/UNC or someone near the blue blood level. But when Jan rolls around it could fill 17k if the team is playing well and present a very loud packed house.

If I could pick an ideal size I think something between 13500 and 14000 would be a sweet spot so long as it was capable of adding 2 to 3k seats for games we know will be hard sell outs. How best to do a conversion like that I have no idea as I don't recall an indoor arena that could so something like this.

I don't like the idea of a 10k seat arena just so it doesn't look half empty when we're playing some nobody in early Dec when students are in finals or already home for the holidays.

It's almost like highway planning. Never understood why you don't make the road large enough to handle the rush hours comfortably enough. So you save a few bucks but your residents suffer through traffic jams 4 days in 5 and you stink up the air with thousands of vehicles barely doing more than idling for hours every day.

 

[Bama Swoosh]

Hopefully Byrne and Co can get some principal donors to step up very soon given what we are seeing. Coleman is a massive airplane hangar and ancient fossil that needs to be demolished and rebuilt into a new arena focused on B-ball. If Ole Miss and Aub can do this we can too. Cameron Indoor stadium is 9,300 and that's about the size I'd shoot for. My 2 cents as a random dude on the internet. I will be crushed if we can't get this done and keep Oats for a long time. Loving my B-ball tide and I will be sending my feeble check when they announce this fundraising campaign.

 

[Holt Ironman]

I don't quite get this notion myself. I think some assume that fewer seats means the stands will be full more often but they're forgetting how Bama basketball crowds tend to work and how many season ticket holders leave their seats empty in early season games. Until football is done it could seat 7500 and not fill unless we're playing Duke/UNC or someone near the blue blood level. But when Jan rolls around it could fill 17k if the team is playing well and present a very loud packed house.

If I could pick an ideal size I think something between 13500 and 14000 would be a sweet spot so long as it was capable of adding 2 to 3k seats for games we know will be hard sell outs. How best to do a conversion like that I have no idea as I don't recall an indoor arena that could so something like this.

I don't like the idea of a 10k seat arena just so it doesn't look half empty when we're playing some nobody in early Dec when students are in finals or already home for the holidays.

It's almost like highway planning. Never understood why you don't make the road large enough to handle the rush hours comfortably enough. So you save a few bucks but your residents suffer through traffic jams 4 days in 5 and you stink up the air with thousands of vehicles barely doing more than idling for hours every day.

So I am not the expert on this nor do I profess to understand it all. But, it has been explained to me that the smaller stadiums focus on “fan experience “ better and put them closer to the action and basically creates incentives to attend more games and hence increase profit per attendee. The person explaining it to me said that is why pro football stadiums are typically smaller and why they are decreasing the capacity at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Whatever the reason, I’m sure it has to do with money. Most things do.

 

[milso47]

Hopefully Byrne and Co can get some principal donors to step up very soon given what we are seeing. Coleman is a massive airplane hangar and ancient fossil that needs to be demolished and rebuilt into a new arena focused on B-ball. If Ole Miss and Aub can do this we can too. Cameron Indoor stadium is 9,300 and that's about the size I'd shoot for. My 2 cents as a random dude on the internet. I will be crushed if we can't get this done and keep Oats for a long time. Loving my B-ball tide and I will be sending my feeble check when they announce this fundraising campaign.

i like coleman myself

the 3 teams you mentioned ain;t doing so well this year. cow college had a final 4 run, but look at them now. ole miss has done nothing. duke ain;t looking so hot this year

i have heard oats say that he likes coleman fine. mostly fans that seldom attend that do not like it.

 

[Bocat69]

Coleman is not that bad. The location is great, the practice facilities and locker rooms underneath Coleman are top notch. A 100 million dollar renovation would make Coleman one of the best college arenas in the country. Sometimes its not all about new but about tradition. I went in Cameron Indoor when we played them in football up there and trust me we have high school gyms nicer than that place, it was unbelievable how small and outdated that place was but guess what its not going anywhere. The renovations put the students right on top of the floor across from the TV cameras. Trust me a 100 million dollar face lift and Coleman will be tremendous..

 

[xcop]

Hopefully Byrne and Co can get some principal donors to step up very soon given what we are seeing. Coleman is a massive airplane hangar and ancient fossil that needs to be demolished and rebuilt into a new arena focused on B-ball. If Ole Miss and Aub can do this we can too. Cameron Indoor stadium is 9,300 and that's about the size I'd shoot for. My 2 cents as a random dude on the internet. I will be crushed if we can't get this done and keep Oats for a long time. Loving my B-ball tide and I will be sending my feeble check when they announce this fundraising campaign.

Do you plan to go to games. ? I have been going since 1969. Probably won't make it another 50 years but I really like it when we get the big crowds. Sure make it a bit smaller . There are soem bad seats. But we need 14,000 seats

 

[winin11]

I’ve been a season ticket holder for a long time, I don’t know how many of you even attend the games.
Coleman is a fine building, but what they discussed in the plans for renovation is raising the floor several feet and correcting the corner seating.
Coleman would be selling out right now in normal times. The 100 mil renovation could make a huge difference.

 

[Sweetlou10]

I’ve been a season ticket holder for a long time, I don’t know how many of you even attend the games.
Coleman is a fine building, but what they discussed in the plans for renovation is raising the floor several feet and correcting the corner seating.
Coleman would be selling out right now in normal times. The 100 mil renovation could make a huge difference.

Live in Tampa now but when I lived in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham I went to every home game and a couple road games per year. Coleman ranks near the bottom in the SEC

 

[huntercork]

Why do so many want to go smaller? We've never had an issue selling tickets. If Oats gets us rolling, our current capacity of just over 15,000 won't be nearly big enough.

Smaller is correct. The capable capacity at Coleman rarely, if ever is filled. Every organization responsible for creating atmosphere in an arena agrees with this method. I was surprised as well

 

[huntercork]

Do you plan to go to games. ? I have been going since 1969. Probably won't make it another 50 years but I really like it when we get the big crowds. Sure make it a bit smaller . There are soem bad seats. But we need 14,000 seats

Designers are saying somewhere between 11500, and 12000 seats is ideal.