parch said:
Yeah, Clay Travis is the dude I'd be taking cues from on this - he's definitely not pulling this out of his ass or anything.
Alabama football is still fabulously wealthy by CFB and even SEC standards. Any available metric you can find will hold this up. Travis' assumption presumes that the only reason players transfer or play anywhere is money. Alabama is shedding guys Saban recruited who stuck it out at Alabama through a coaching change because they were getting bank. A season after DeBoer, who many no doubt don't respect because he didn't recruit them and because he's *ahem* not the greatest coach of all time, many of them are jumping ship as fast as possible.
Alabama is not losing and will not lose because they don't have the bank to keep pace. They are losing because the guy they hired to run the program isn't half as good as the last guy they had. That job was always a poisoned chalice, and DeBoer was just the one dumb and arrogant enough to think he could take it on.
Their AD is crying poor a lot, though, and publicly expressing concerns about the system and Alabama's ability to keep up in it -- which is, of course, hilarious.
The shoe ends up on the wrong foot one time, and everyone starts losing their mind.