Mark Sears didn't play the second half against LSU. The sideline reporter said that it wasn't due to injury.
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If he plays vs us he will go off for 35. If he doesn’t play his replacement will go off for 35 
Nate Oats said after the game that he played the players in the second half who gave the team the best chance to win the game. If Sears was sick, he would’ve said he was sick. Sounds like a discipline issue to me. Maybe Sears went off on a coach or teammate in the halftime locker room.
Probably just resting him so they can kick our a$$.
If he does that, it'll all be OK because we don't need to beat them to make the play in gameIf he plays vs us he will go off for 35. If he doesn’t play his replacement will go off for 35
I wonder if there was a specific incident that happened or if the coach just didn’t like his effort and attitude in the first half.
I’m going with option 1. Something happened at halftime.
whatever happened i hope it cares over into our game
Nate Oats says Sears was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I don’t know about you guys but I don’t like oats at all. I think he’s a thug. He’s prolly trying to cover up another scandal.
And he always looks like he’s wearing his grandfather’s clothing. He just looks slimy for some reason. Maybe it is the used car salesman jackets. Was one of his grandfathers in the car business?
It didn't matter when Auburn's best player didn't play against us and probably won't matter if he plays against us or not.
They've dominated the series the last several years and seem to have our number.
Dude was teaching math and selling snacks to raise money for his team 12 years ago and now he’s an elite coach in the college game. Great story.
Not sure it's about the coaching as much as it is the money. Kinda like saying Pearl is a great coach. Better to say they are convincing men, able to sell themselves, the program and get the money they need to be a top 5 recruiting class.
Also with Oats and 2024, that's the most embarrassing year for the Bama brand ever maybe. Players shooting people, coaches fixing games (baseball head coach).
But yes it's true, Oats now has millions instead of hundreds in his bank account.
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Zac needs to use some of that gift he’s talking about to buy a special chair courtside for Derrick Zimmerman just for this game
What do you have to do at Bama to face discipline? Shoot 2 people?
Oates shouldn't be fined. Kirby set the precedent of coaches interacting with opposing players.
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I don't care how great his 'story' is. He's a piece of shiit that covers for criminals, the biggest crybaby whiner to the refs during gameplay that I've maybe ever seen, and a terrible dresser to boot. 17 that guy.
We also didn't have our player who was arguably playing the best in Melendez.
I doubt it was a halftime incident. This was Oats sending a message to Sears and to the rest of the team. Play hard or don't play. And he said yesterday that Sears had a great practice.
“I thought Sears had an unbelievable practice today,” Oats said. “I thought the energy today – if everybody played as hard in the game as they did in practice today, I don’t think it would have been tied at the half. So can we get these guys to give max effort every single night out, every practice, every game?"
Setting up for a 30 point, 10 assist, 0 turnover game tonight.
This.
Nate Oates is a despicable human being. I can go on for paragraphs on just the stories that are actually out in public for all to see.
A true story you won’t see:
Oats was in a local restaurant late one Thursday where my son was managing that night. Nate, known throughout town as the unapologetic narcissist, was irritated that he had to wait, and passive aggressively cut to the front. Manager told him he has to wait just like everybody else. Nate pulls the always endearing “don’t you know who I am” line.
I raised my son right. He is a die hard State fan, but his inherited temper and shared hatred for all things Bama can sometimes get us into situations.
Knowing exactly who this cuntsh!it was the moment he walked in the door, he played coy and told Nate, “I don’t give a damn who you are, you put you pants on one leg at a time like everyone else, back it up”.
This guy’s attitude ratchets up and puts his true colors on display for all to see. It was late, only a few people in line, and hardly anyone sitting, so few witnesses. When he called one of the black employees preparing his meal “boy” for, in his mind, taking too long, the employee staff nearly erupted. My son somehow held his temper and told him that not coming back would be the best decision.
I’m not saying that Nate Oats is a racist, or bigoted. It’s entirely possible that his choice of words was meant more as a slight toward the overall young age of the staff.
Little things like manners and how a person treats children, old folks, and kitchen staff tells me all I need to know whether you are a decent person or an intolerable azzzhole. The fact that he absolutely is a punchable narcissistic bastard, it would not surprise me at all if he is in fact a racist piece of sh!tt.
Show me all the made for TV specials and then read this experience and tell me he’s a great guy with a good story.
You be the judge.
Maybe he was running late and had to deliver a handgun to one of his players. You never know what someone is going through on any given day.**
Sears will be motivated AF tomorrow night. He'll probably hit 7 3's and go for 38.
Little fella going to get worn out and out of shape from having to actually play D
Nate Oats is a hell of a basketball coach.
Bruce Pearl is a hell of a basketball coach.
Trying to say he’s not a good coach because he’s a better recruiter seems silly to me. Like “Sure, that CEO increased profits and share prices, but only because we sold more units. Our per-unit margin didn’t increase.”
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