Back when I started following college bball, around the time we played Iowa in the 2013 NIT I saw this. A classic
Why are coaches like this? This is message board level conspiracy:
Ha. I thought his name was Nick the whole time. Cronin seems to try too hard to produce soundbites in my opinion
Yikes. Sure doesnāt seem good for Brandon Miller, but probably hangs on what the law says about being an accessory. Seems like police arenāt pursuing charges, though.
I know it wonāt happen at Bama but is this the sort of situation where even if he doesnāt face criminal charges he should be suspended? Seems like even if it isnāt criminal it reflects poorly on the university and the program
Nate Oats with a doozy of a boys-will-be-boys quote:
āWe knew about that. Canāt control everything everybody does outside of practice. Nobody knew that was going to happen. College kids are out, Brandon hasnāt been in any type of trouble nor is he in any type of trouble in this case. Wrong spot at the wrong time,ā Oats said.
Yikes, times a million.
āWrong spot at the wrong time,ā says Nate Oats.
Yeah, might be worth mentioning that Miller didnāt accidentally stumble into the wrong spot. He went there knowing it was the wrong spot, and the only reason it was the wrong spot was that it was where he was giving a gun to someone who wanted to kill someone. It wasnāt the wrong spot until he turned it into one.
Run and gun?
More like gun and run, amirite?
in terms of providing the gun and then bouncingā¦ not the actual crimeā¦ hmmmmmm
Maybe I shouldnāt go down this road, but this quote from the deputy DA is a bit contradictory, isnāt it?
Asked by AL.com why Miller was not charged, Tuscaloosa chief deputy D.A. Paula Whitley said, āThatās not a question I can answer. Thereās nothing we could charge him with,āā according to the law, she said.
So ā¦ she canāt answer the question ā¦ but then the next sentence seems to answer the questionā¦ so, how do I read the first sentence?
If the article starts with āAsked why Alabama leading scorer Brandon Miller was not chargedā¦ā it answers a lot of questions. But then the whole article becomes redundant.
Wow. Providing a murder weapon to somebody is not generally something that gets shrugged off as āWe canāt control what they do outside of practice.ā
Even if Miller didnāt know what exactly was going to take place, what is the scenario where anything good was going to happen when a friend asks you to bring a gun somewhere public late at night? How is that not behavior you wouldnāt see as problematic among your players?
Self defense, I guess? (meaning, the person asked for the weapon out of self defense).
But I donāt want to get too far into it on this b/c it starts get ideological in a hurryā¦
But yeah, I canāt imagine a scenario where Oats wouldnāt want to AT THE VERY LEAST let his guys sit a few games for being involved a situation that turned out like it did.
Oats probably hoping like hell the story doesnāt get deeper and clearer until mid-April.
Letās be honest: If Brandon Miller was a walk-on, heād be suspended from the team. But heās not. Heās a star. He could have been the person who actually shot and killed someone, and Nate Oats would desperately search for a loophole to keep him playing.
Did anyone actually think this situation at Alabama was going to just fizzle out? Honestly, Iām shocked with the national coverage about this incident, or rather, the complete non-coverage by the national sports media.
Letās just carry on and pretend like an Alabama player didnāt just murder someone (and the 99.9% chance that at least one other player is involved, if not a group). No matter the INSANE PLAYER-MURDER STORY, what seed is Alabama, Joe Lunardi? A freaking joke.
Unless youāre a complete idiot you saw something like this coming. It highlights the absurdity of sports journalism and how stupid it can be.
It also puts so much into perspective and the absurdity of major revenue sports in college athletics. Some schools, players are hustling to class and getting involved in the community, meanwhile, apparently at Alabama these āStudentā athletes are running around with guns like they are in The Wire.
Will be interesting to see to what extent ESPN et al cover thisā¦ā¦
Itās definitely the story of the afternoon on college hoops twitter, but we shall see what happensā¦
Come the big tourney, per NCAA rules, all locker rooms have to be open to the pressā¦ (Iām fairly certain)
I must be an idiot, because while I was aware of the incident, I didnāt predict that Brandon Miller was involved until the details just came out today. (To be fair, Iām an idiot for other reasonsā¦)
If Iām Nate Oats, Iām calling Urban Meyer to find out how he got this stuff swept under the rug every year.