Nate Oats said this week there were no issues with the crowd at Vanderbilt Tuesday night, but confronted the possibility that might not hold true in further SEC road games. Oats wants team to ignore ‘idiots’, potential taunts after Darius Miles arrest:
Alabama men’s basketball already had a growing target on its back as a top-five team in the country, and Sunday’s arrest of bench player Darius Miles for capital murder could provide fodder for opposing fans to try to rattle the players that remain on the team.emotional Tuesday night game
“I’ve talked to our team about that,” Oats said. “Basically I told them this: if people want to be ignorant, and say things that are completely out of line -- and in this case, I would think, this isn’t a case where somebody got into some trouble. These are serious matters. There’s a“This is not, to me, something that students should be joking about. If somebody does happen to say something, I just told our guys, you’ve got to be strong enough, tough enough. We’re here to play basketball.
“Our guys have a bad game and people want to criticize them. Like, nobody has any idea of what we’re going through in our shoes during these instances. It’s a hard situation to be in. If some idiots on social media want to come after you, they’re showing how ignorant they are, in my opinion.”“We really have no control over some fans if they say some ignorant stuff,” he said. “We have full control over our reaction to it. We have full control over how hard we play in the game.
“We did not have an ounce of [taunting] at Vanderbilt, that I know of,” Oats said. “I heard nothing about anybody. Class act at Vandy, and that stems from their leadership. You listen to Stackhouse after the game. I thought he was as great as you could be. I’ve always had a ton of respect for Jerry. I thought his remarks after the game were incredible.
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