Perspective: At Alabama, a 21st-century sports scandal without accountability
. He explained it as players mimicking a TSA check, before Miller is cleared to take flight, instead of the way many interpreted the scene Saturday: a willing fool pretending to search Miller for a weapon. Saturday night, however, Oats opened his postgame comments by saying the routine was “not appropriate” after the controversy was brought to his attention,Oats didn’t seem to mind Miller’s instinctual but woefully myopic reactions during a testy road game.
“Basketball kind of becomes a safe haven for some of these guys. They get on the floor, they can kind of lock in to what they’ve done their whole lives and get some of the outside stuff out of their mind,” Oats said afterThe “outside stuff.” Only a man who can’t dislodge his loafer from his mouth would equate transporting a murder weapon and allegedly witnessing the death of a woman to “outside stuff.
“We want a culture of accountability. If I love you, and you and me are roommates, and we go back and you’re going to smoke weed, well, that’s not what’s best for you. If I really love you, I’m going to call you out for that,” Oats said and later added: “If all I do is teach you to how throw a ball through a ring, I’m wasting a lot of time. We have to develop character in our guys. I firmly believe this: The better young men you have, the better basketball team you’re going to have.
And to build a better program, Oats brought along his love for hard hats. When he arrived in Tuscaloosa, with the intention of turning the Crimson Tide into a blue-collar team, Oats introduced the headwear prop as hackneyed motivation. Following games, one of his chosen players would get to wear it if and only if his work ethic was worthy of a construction worker paid by the hour. The
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