🏀 Alabama hires Nate Oats as new basketball coach

[#80]

Looking forward to the presser tomorrow.

 

[TerryP]

Exactly why he is HC at Bama. Reminds me of 2005. ut waited until the end of the 2004-2005 season to hire Bruce Pearl. If I had been AD at Bama, I would have hired him at halftime of Bama's loss to UW-Milwaukee.

He was already carrying the moniker of "snitch" around NCAA circles back then. I thought "there's not a better fit" than UT when they hired him. With Pearl secretly recording Deon Thomas trying to implicate Illinois and Tennessee's involvement with Fulmer being a secret witness I saw it no other way than "two peas POS's in a pod."

 

[TerryP]

I wasn't condemning anything.

In the other thread leading up to this one I mentioned two things I believe are of note. One, there's pro's and con's with each coach and two, some would be happy and others would complain. Neither of those two thoughts are earth shattering: by any means.

I'd like to revisit that for a second here.

Personally, I can see two reasons for fans to complain. And, at this point, they are the only two reasons I consider legitimate.

There are fans who wanted the "splash hire" when it comes to a name: the kind of that immediately makes the basketball world (fans, specifically) turn their heads. Names like Pitino and Donovan fit that bill. Oats doesn't carry that weight among a lot of casual basketball fans.

Secondly, I've seen many point to his relatively short time coaching collegiate ball. That's a valid point as well.

In my view that's countered by a few things. One is how I've heard him described by other basketball coaches and those I consider having a basketball minds. "He runs good stuff." In my opinion, coming from peers, it's a compliment of the highest order.

On a more personal note after spending time getting to know more about him I have a lot of respect for him and his family. His wife is a cancer survivor. From personal experience with family I know what kind of mental fortitude that takes. To me, that speaks volumes about the man and his wife.

 

[TerryP]

Should save some of you a little surfing time.

Alabama announces Buffalo's Nate Oats as next men's basketball coach

Nate Oats has been hired by Alabama after three NCAA tournament appearances in four seasons as the basketball coach at Buffalo.

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Alabama hires Buffalo’s Nate Oats as its mens’ hoops coach

Alabama has hired Buffalo's Nate Oats as Crimson Tide's next men's basketball coach.

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Bullish on UB: How Nate Oats got his start and sustained Buffalo basketball’s success

Alabama hires Nate Oats as new basketball coach

Nate Oats replaces Avery Johnson.

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Analysis: Is Buffalo's Nate Oats the run-and-gun coach UNLV needs?

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Alabama hires Buffalo's Oats as head coach

Alabama has hired Nate Oats as its next coach, replacing Avery Johnson. Oats led Buffalo to the second round of the 2018 and 2019 NCAA tournaments.

www.espn.com

With a registered psychotherapist on staff, Buffalo is causing problems yet again in March

Nate Oats encourages his Bulls to attack, and attack they do.

www.midmajormadness.com

 

[TerryP]

"We're shocked by how quick and quiet this was," the source said.

Nate Oats resigns as UB men's basketball coach, heads to Alabama

 

[BamaFan334]

If he wants to be in Tuscaloosa and wants to win, I'm in on Coach Oates.

 

[TUSKtimes]

I was really impressed with his new waterfront home. I love the craftsmanship that has gone into the older homes. They must have taken those pictures in August. The rest of the time snow is blowing off Lake Erie sideways as the local patrons pile up in Townsquare to sing in unison, "The Wreck of the Edmund FitzGerald."

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Hurt: Important days are ahead for Nate Oats

https://www.tidesports.com/cecil-hurt-important-days-are-ahead-for-nate-oats/

 

[TUSKtimes]

Hurt: Important days are ahead for Nate Oats

https://www.tidesports.com/cecil-hurt-important-days-are-ahead-for-nate-oats/

So Alabama has never hired a power 5 basketball coach? That's amazing if true.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

He was already carrying the moniker of "snitch" around NCAA circles back then. I thought "there's not a better fit" than UT when they hired him. With Pearl secretly recording Deon Thomas trying to implicate Illinois and Tennessee's involvement with Fulmer being a secret witness I saw it no other way than "two peas POS's in a pod."

Bruce actually got Mike Slive fired during that Illinois deal

 

[TerryP]

@JoseyWalesTheOutlaw, how many people caught up in that whole ordeal? Do you remember?

Now that I think about it ...

As I recall that's when Vitale was making his mark on ESPN's basketball coverage. He was pretty vocal.

 

[TerryP]

I have to admit. I smiled at the title too.

Xs and Oats — Watch new basketball coach Nate Oats’ offensive concepts

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

@JoseyWalesTheOutlaw, how many people caught up in that whole ordeal? Do you remember?

Now that I think about it ...

As I recall that's when Vitale was making his mark on ESPN's basketball coverage. He was pretty vocal.

The story...………...

Deadspin | Bruce Pearl’s First Con, And The World That Created A Monster (Deadspin Classic)

Deadspin | Bruce Pearl’s First Con, And The World That Created A Monster (Deadspin Classic)

deadspin.com

Pearl, who'd broken a kind of coaching omerta; not Collins, who was labeled a cheat at a time when Illinois's rivals around the Midwest were trying to lay recruiting inroads in Chicago; not Thomas, who looked like another kid with his hand out; not Thomas's supposed best friend, who acted as Pearl's snoop; not Mike Slive, who was then a lawyer hired (and subsequently fired) by Illinois and who is now SEC commissioner; not Randy Rueckert, a former NCAA investigator, who once allegedly hounded Deon Thomas up and down the sidelines of a pickup game; not Rich Hilliard, the former head of the NCAA's enforcement staff, who was a college friend of Pearl's and who would have some trouble of his own staying on the right side of the rules. Even two decades on, it still has something to teach us—about Pearl, yes, but especially about the nature of that burn-proof vault of yellowing secrets known as the NCAA.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Well, Herb likes the new coach and is staying, obviously... Helping to recruit Watford...

 

[#80]

That Mountain Brook coach would make a great assistant coach on the Oats staff .... hint .. hint.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

Tom Crean and Nate Oats at a bar in Destin..

Tom...my guys couldn't played dead in a Western
Nate..my guys are in the portal

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Pre-presser

 

[TerryP]

The following link is Oats mic'd up ... 'bout a three minute video clip.

Anvato Universal Player

w3.cdn.anvato.net

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

CNS at the presser..

 

[TerryP]