Matt Miller

The football heads pop out in March and just start spewing nonsense. Bama has 9 tournament wins in the last 3 years lol They lost in the Sweet Sixteen because they had a Sweet Sixteen, maybe even Round of 32 caliber team and they played a juggernaut Please shift your focus back to spring football now

Asked Nate Oats if it was worth it to bring in Charles Bediako for five games. Oats: "100%. There was an opportunity to help one of our former players out. He was within his five year window. He's trying to get his degree. Here's the thing too. My job as a head coach is to try to do the right thing by our guys. Charles is one of our guys. That was the right thing to do by one of our guys. Like I've said before, this is not some mercenary deal with a 23 year old coming in for a semester that nobody knows. He was deemed legally eligible to play. We're going to absolutely support him. One of the ironic statements in the affidavit Sankey put was how much of a disadvantage it is to go be a pro and not have to focus on your college. It's not the case. It would be nice if everybody who's commenting, writing, talking about this, actually educated themselves on the reality of the situation. The reality of the situation is, Charles left here with his body looking pretty good at 235. He went to the G League. You don't get the same treatment you do. There's a reason ... there's a lot of G League players trying to come back to college. The money's a lot better. The development is a lot better. You get a full time dietician, full time strength coach, you're not traveling on commercial flights, spending all your time in airports, not being able to develop. Charles actually has lost weight since he went to the G League. His development wasn't what you would think being a pro. You're more of a professional able to focus on getting your body right in college. He's here. He's in school. We're going to help him try to gain weight back he's lost since he was in the G League. We're going to continue to help his basketball development. We're going to continue to help his development as a student, as a student-athlete. 100% it was worth it. I would do the same thing 100 times out of 100 for any of our guys it would have made sense to do it with."

Here's the thing on the cheating Tide: if the pro player was deemed ineligible yesterday, then he was ineligible last week and the week before, and the entire time. Nothing changed to make him now ineligible. He was always ineligible. And the cheating Tide knew that.