Season after season, university basketball is more and more like the NBA. Of the style of play that Alabama basketball coach Nate oats helped popularize to practice the installations to come to Crimson tideIt happens in Tuscaloosa.
A few years ago, Kentucky, Duke and Villanova were among the first to adopt general directors for their teams, with the other Blueblods Uconn and UNC following the costume in 2025. The growing trend does not stop there, however. This year, Auburn, the former oats buffalo, with Iona, Wisconsin and Davidson – who hired the NBA star, Steph Curry, as deputy managing director to lead Austin Buntz – added GMs to their lists.
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Only a few days ago, Rutgers published a job list For a “Director General of Basketball” who would serve his male and women’s teams, promoting a salary varies from $ 150,000 to $ 300,000.
With the two basketball programs at the University of Alabama Increasing – men who came out of consecutive races in the Final Four and Elite Eight – It is difficult to imagine that the hiring of a GM is not on the table for the Crimson tide.
In an interview with the Tuscaloosa NewsUA Director of Athletics Greg byrne shared what is in reserve for the organizational future of Alabama basketball.
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“Right now, the oat coach and I talked about it. Coach (Kristy) Curry and I talked about it. There were discussions there too,” said Byrne.
Conversations on change took place, but the approach of Alabama at this stage is simple.
If it is not broken, do not repair it.
Will the hiring of a managing director be the next trend of the NBA adopted by Alabama Basketball?
“We love the model we have,” said Byrne. He underlined the director general of football of Alabama, Courtney Morgan, who joined the staff in 2024, and noted that the addition had “worked very well” for the crew of the coach Kalen Deboer.
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That said, the brains like the male assistant coach Preston Murphy, who joined forces with oats and the company in July 2023, and the female assistant coach and recruitment coordinator Brooks Donald Williams, who joined the program in 2025, trains for their respective programs.
“I think this recruitment structure we have for our male basketball program and our women’s basketball program worked well,” said Byrne. “Right now, that’s what we are focusing on.”
If the male basketball of the Alabama was to add a GM, Murphy is a shoo-in. After all, while the Crimson Tide was preparing to face Byu in Sweet 16 while the transfer portal opened, the oats said that Murphy was “essentially” the general manager of the team.
In a March interview with Sirius XM sec Radio, oats deplore the window of the early transfer portal and suggested that it understood why the teams implement the GM model.
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“I don’t like it now, because if you are still playing, you should focus on what you are doing, don’t focus who is in the portal and recruitment for next year,” Sirius XM dry radio. “This is where I think the GM role is starting to get into play, and if you have a GM who is not a coach.”
Alas, oats expressed that he did not want to lose the role of Murphy on the touch because he is a “very good coach” and will be satisfied with the GM “de facto” that he invented the old pro as in September 2024.
Thus, an Alabama basketball GM is not out of the question. It is simply not a decision that will be made anytime soon.
The Alabama University unveiled the first banner in honor of the first appearance of the Final Four school on Friday October 11, 2024 in Coleman Coliseum. Deputy coach Preston Murphy trains the white team during the fray.
Everyone playing clashes against the state of Florida, the return of male and female basketball of Alabama on Thursday, October 16.
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Emilee Smarr covers Alabama and Crimson Tide Athletics basketball for Tuscaloosa news. It can be contacted by e-mail at [email protected].
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