re: Alabama Basketball Non-Conference Schedule

Appreciate Alabama_Fan posting the video. It’s a 45 minute video and I definitely encourage watching it all, but for those who can’t I’ll sum up the parts I found most interesting

-Says he always wanted to coach college basketball growing up and goes into detail about getting the job with Bob Hurley. It was interesting that Dan basically gave him the job on Bob’s staff because he already had Preston Murphy on staff and they covered the same recruiting ground.

- Talks about when Byrne flew out and offered. His agent told him this was a place he could win and he should accept

-Says Byrne is the best AD in the country and our entire athletics staff and department, president, and board are fantastic.


-Didn’t know or expect to end up loving Alabama as much as he does. Loves the people, weather. Daughter is about to graduate UA, another daughter graduating HS locally, and an 8th grade daughter that plays travel volleyball with DeBoer’s daughter


-Admits he’s intrigued by possibly coaching in the NBA because it’s the highest level. Says he’s never been offered and it’s a bad time right now because of his family. Says he has a lot more winning to do before.


-Doesn’t feel like he needs to go anywhere else to win at the highest level of college. Says things could always change and we’re entering this new age of revenue sharing so you never know, but he believes in our ability to adapt. This made me a little sad just the mention of it. He was directly asked about it and the best part about coach is how up front he is about everything and was pretty much saying no, but damn it we better do whatever it takes.


-The 23 sweet 16 loss was the toughest loss of his career. Says multiple times that was the best team.


Talks about the current team a good bit as well, but it’s the usual stuff he says. Good listen and great insight to how Oats thinks. Always awesome to hear him boost up the whole athletics program. You can tell he really loves it here.


I think it’s about time to build the arena.

Line flipped. AZ -1.5 now

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Line flipped. AZ -1.5 now

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Big swing this late. Someone out hurt?

Nah, I think when the line was posted big money bet on Arizona. The basketball lines don’t get posted until the day before so they swing a couple points pretty often if they’re over leveraged on a side

Oats on Hey Coach tonight.

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Without being asked about it he did say “I could’ve called a time out on the run. But the guys do have to play harder as well” do mildly less defiant than Saturday

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That’s about the same conviction he had after the last time he answered it with “play harder” a few years ago (may have even been a tournament game). Nothing will change…he literally doesn’t understand it.

To be fair to Nate, if he calls a timeout to stop another team's run it means we have to try and inbound the ball when play resumes, which probably means either a 5 second call or giving the ball right back to the other team.