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UK under Brainfart and the old geezer in the presidents office clearly doesn’t want any winning here either.
Sure it is. He could have fired Pope last week and hired Oats. Clearly he and Eli can just do whatever the hell they want without needing the BOT’s approval so who cares if the BOT supposedly had Oats on the no contact list two years ago.
Can you imagine the joy, the jubilation there would be all over BBN if that happened? Oats comes walking in his first press conference with Stokes in tow. We're back baby!
Then Why are we still paying him a million a year?
Hurley is the biggest dickhead in CBB and is about to win 3 titles in 4 years.
Nate Oats has made exactly one Final Foul with Alabama. He made the S16 this year. We have half the board saying Pope had a ****** season his first year when he made the S16.
He's still going to have a UK job going forward.
I saw numerous bama fans say that divorce story was false two years ago. That his wife was sick at that time and they didn’t divorce.
Yeah I believe his wife has been dealing with cancer since nate was at Buffalo. I assumed it was something connected to that
This is the dumb post. Sounds like UK fans before cal came. “Sleazeball” “cheater”. These were words uttered about cal. You love pope we know. We know. Never saw your user name until Pope showed up
Pope fan. There’s no one on your list because they are all human and make mistakes. He must be doing something good to pay him like bama is. Of course pope fans are very satisfied.
I remember this rumor that’s all it is. Who in their right mind would want to raise their daughters in Alabama. It’s a bs claim
That’s been a bit of a wild ride. There was absolutely zero public acknowledgement of it until this week when he suddenly announced his engagement to another woman, but he apparently did actually get divorced. Whether or not that actually affected his job decisions or not is a lot less clear. I kind of doubt he was ever leaving anyway if Alabama was willing to commit this kind of resources for him.
Oats has ran the SEC since being at Bama, a football school. Alabama has the most wins in the league since hiring Oats. It wouldn’t be quite the same but that’d be like Stein having the most wins in the SEC 6 years from now.
Tf are you even babbling about? Dude has made 4 straight Sweet 16s. His last 3 seasons were Final Four, Elite 8, and Sweet 16. Show me the programs outside of UConn that has done that. Oh, and he ran into buzz saw Michigan in the Sweet 16, and played them better than anyone else in the tourney. Sure as hell looked better than Tennessee and ‘Zona against them. Had he had UT’s path, he’d have been back to the Elite 8. And he did it without their second best player, who shoots over 43% from deep on high volume. You people people are dumb as fck.
Alabama basketball coach Nate Oats divorced his former wife, Crystal, in 2023. In April 2026, Oats announced his engagement to Alex Accetta, a former Alabama basketball operations staffer and current Dallas Mavericks employee. Oats and his ex-wife, Crystal, have three children together.
Oats is at Bama, the biggest football brand. Pope is at UK, the biggest basketball brand. If you don’t understand the differences in resources, tradition, investment, money, NIL, fan following, etc then you don’t understand how this works. In the simplest terms, put Oats at UK and he would kill it. Put Pope at Alabama and they look like Ole Miss.
The fact that some of you guys still think Oats was/would have come here is laughable. He was not leaving Bama and said so on multiple occasions. Had bama even thought he was sniffing this job they would have thrown bank at him just like they did here.He just got a new deal that puts him in the top 5 paid coaches.
I can’t put into words how much I hate Barnhart.
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To be fair, that just came out this month in a radio interview where he said he was engaged, to a former Alabama staffer of all things. They kept that divorce secret and on wraps for 3 years !!! that's why everybody said it was rumor because it couldn't be proven true and Nate himself never said anything about it.
Michigan will smoke UCONN.
