Alabama basketball coach, Nate Oats is not the wordsmith Nick Saban is. Oats’ is less guarded. He speaks in a direct fashion, often quite candidly.
The measurement of Nate Oats as an Alabama basketball coach is ongoing. Most Crimson Tide fans realize Oats needs time to build a roster of his choosing. A season with an injury-depleted roster did not provide a fair assessment.
Oats spoke about the results of his first Tide season saying,
They didn’t bring us in here to go 16-15, and we had some of those discussions with some of the players.