No it doesn’t
if an employee left another company for a ton of money and the original company thought that employee wasn’t worth the price, despite their best efforts (and we did bump his NIL btw), does the company still look bad? It happens ALL the time and big businesses find replacements.
You have no idea if Bama is overpaying. We also don’t know what each program is valuing TVD at, but we do know Bama is offering more. It’s what you do after the departure and the results following that paint the whole picture. If a company keeps chugging along or produces better numbers, maybe they were better off. Maybe they struggle with said employee’s departure…but it doesn’t say **** except TVD is a punk.