Nate Oats, Alabama Men's Basketball Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Episode 387
Nate Oats is the head coach of the University of Alabama men's basketball program. He came to Tuscaloosa in March after five successful years as the head coach at the University of Buffalo.
While in Buffalo, Oats led his club to three NCAA tournament appearances including advancing to the second round in both 2018 and 2019. He is a 2-time MAC Coach of the Year and a winner of 3 MAC Tournament Championships in 2016, 2018 and 2019.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Coach Oats about his decision to come to Alabama, not having to deal with the cold and snow of Buffalo anymore, going from coaching high school basketball to Alabama in just 6 years, how his faith guides him and shapes the way he coaches and why reading through the Bible in a year was important to him.
For more, log on to http://SportsSpectrum.com
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I'm Jason Romano. Today's guest on the show is Alabama men's basketball coach Nate Oates. We're really excited to have you guys hear our conversation with Coach Oates. But before we do that, I want to tell you about our sponsorship with Compassion International. They have been great partners with us |
| 0:39.1 | here at Sports Spectrum for a while now, over a year, and they are the most trusted child |
| 0:45.0 | development ministry in the world. They provide children with hope. They provide children with |
| 0:50.7 | the way out. And by doing that, they're connected to the local church with this |
| 0:56.8 | child-based church sponsorship. And you and I can come in and make that difference for $38 a month. |
| 1:03.9 | It's tax deductible. If you go to the website, Compassion.com slash sports spectrum. You'll see a list of |
| 1:10.2 | children waiting to be released from poverty. |
| 1:13.1 | Kids from Rwanda, Tanzania, Ecuador, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, children as young as |
| 1:21.0 | three or four years old and as old as 16, 17 years old, waiting to be released from poverty. |
| 1:30.3 | And your support for $38 a month will provide medical checkups, nutritious food, health and hygiene training, educational assistance, |
| 1:35.6 | mentoring to help children discover their incredible value. And most important of all, |
| 1:40.2 | the child who is sponsored will hear about the love of Jesus and be encouraged to develop a lifelong |
| 1:46.4 | relationship with him. |
| 1:48.0 | That's what it's all about. |
| 1:49.3 | Help make that difference in a child's life by releasing them from poverty. |
| 1:52.9 | Go to compassion.com slash sports spectrum. |
| 1:56.1 | Pray about it and consider sponsoring a child today. |
| 2:00.7 | Really excited to have Nate Oates, the Alabama men's basketball coach on our program |
| 2:06.0 | today. |
| 2:07.0 | Nate is beginning his first season with the Alabama Crimson Tide after a very successful |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sports Spectrum, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Sports Spectrum and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.