re: Holloway Arrested (Update: Holloway has been removed from campus.)

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Wonder which girlfriend told on him......

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I’m writing an action movie where I infiltrate law enforcement as a sleeper cell and slowly work my way up the narcotics ranks just to warn Alabama players when the sting is about hit so they can beat Hofstra

Nate Oats on his "Hey Coach" radio show tonight on Aden Holloway: "Look, we've got standards in our program. We've got ways we've held our guys accountable. We try to keep everything in-house. Obviously some of the situations you can't. This is one of those. Situation is a little different when we found out what was going on this morning -- I found out this morning. I guess it all went down this morning. We had to suspend him pending the investigation by the UA office of student conduct. We're disappointed in his behavior. With that said, we still love him. He's still our guy. We're going to get him the help that he needs. ... We're preparing to play without him this weekend."


Edit: Bryant beat me to the post but I’ll leave this up for people without twitter, which should be everyone

Definitely commendable. One of the best things about Oats is he really doesn’t give a shite what people outside of the program have to say. He doesn’t care about being dragged and so far I’ve agreed with everything he’s been dragged for.

At the end of the day, no matter what happened with Aden, this is an innocuous and victimless crime. I think it’s dumb and selfish but not something you discard one of your players for.

Maybe. Unless his operation was selling to X amount of people including an undercover.

I have hope. He needs to get smarter. Take his lashings and get back on the team.

I’m not going to downvote you. I think he’s got to be done for this year but you’ve certainly got to give him a chance to learn from this and come back even though this wasn’t a guy with a few baggies of s**t. He had a pound. This is not much ado about nothing. He doesn’t learn from this and doesn’t take advantage of the chance? Then you cut him loose.

Don't blame him. Dude had weed. He didn't rape anyone. Didn't diddle kids. Wasn't selling fentanyl. Just weed. I bet half the coaching staff gets blazed every night.