Bad Oats
People want to be mad at Nate Oats for saying a bunch of dumb stuff. They're mad at the wrong thing.
Up top, let’s acknowledge that Nate Oats said some of the wilder wild-boy shit you’re likely to hear from one of the alleged grown-ups in charge in college athletics.
That’s Alabama head coach Nate Oats—shepherd of a top-five program with both legitimate Final Four and national title aspirations—poo-poohing the notion that star freshman Brandon Miller’s ALLEGEDLY BRINGING A TEAMMATE THE GUN THAT WAS USED TO MURDER A HUMAN BEING, which instead was simply about being at the wrong spot at the wrong time.
So. That’s reprehensible, and anyone attempting to defend Oats is wrong at best, evil at worst and likely doing the sort of mental gymnastics Oats himself went through to justify continuing to play his star player in the immediate aftermath of said player ALLEGEDLY BRINGING A TEAMMATE THE GUN THAT WAS USED TO MURDER A HUMAN BEING like nothing had happened.