Alabama men's basketball coach Nate Oats on tragedy, adversity and prayer
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Nate Oats has been the head coach of the University of Alabama men’s basketball program since March 2019. He came to Tuscaloosa after five successful years as the head coach at the University of Buffalo. He is a two-time MAC Coach of the Year and the 2021 SEC Coach of the Year.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Coach Oats about how he has dealt with a former player's arrest a few weeks ago on January 15 and trusting in God to guide him through prayer and scripture to lead his team and move forward for the rest of the 2022-23 college basketball season.
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| 0:33.5 | Thank you. day. Welcome into the Sports Spectrum podcast, where we bring Jesus into the sports |
| 0:47.3 | conversation. Here's your host for today, Jason Romano. Hi, guys, welcome to the show. I am Jason. |
| 0:54.7 | This is Sports Spectrum, and we have conversations on the intersection of sports and faith. |
| 1:00.2 | We like to keep Jesus in the sports conversation, and that's what we're doing today with |
| 1:03.9 | Nate Oates. |
| 1:04.6 | He is Alabama's men's basketball coach, and his team is having a pretty interesting season. A lot of highs as far as |
| 1:13.5 | being ranked number two in the country. And they're having a phenomenal season in 2022 into |
| 1:19.1 | 2003. And they're a team to look out for and have a legitimate shot at making a run at an |
| 1:24.4 | NCAA final four. But then you got to talk about the difficult side, of course, of what's happening in this |
| 1:32.9 | Alabama program. |
| 1:33.9 | And that's when Darius Miles, who was a forward with Alabama previously, he's not with |
| 1:38.0 | the team anymore on January 15th was arrested in charge with the murder of 23-year-old Jamia Harris. |
| 1:46.1 | And investigators say that he provided the gun used in the shooting. |
| 1:49.6 | And it's obviously, you know, a shock to the Alabama program and to Nate Oates. |
| 1:54.7 | And what I wanted to do here when I found out we had the opportunity to talk to Coach Oates was really just ask him about how his |
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