According to law enforcement authorities, the finest gamer on the No. 2-ranked group in college basketball carried the weapon that was utilized to kill a 23-year old lady throughout an argument last month in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Regardless of the legal effects for future NBA lotto choice Brandon Miller — and it does not appear there will be any — that piece of details alone is the most unpleasant story in college basketball this year by a considerable range.
And yet for Alabama coach Nate Oats, it’s simply a speed bump on the method to the Final Four. Heck, it wasn’t even that. A unfortunate scenario, as he stated at a news conference on Tuesday. The group even stated a prayer about it priorto practice ended, which was definitely good of them.
But was Miller’s participation in this dreadful disaster something that required to be dealt with in a method that may compromise a couple wins? Apparently not to Alabama sports director Greg Byrne or Oats, who may haveactually made the title of America’s most tone-deaf individual Tuesday with the following remark:
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“We understood about that. Can’t control whatever everyone does outside of practice. Nobody understood that was going to takeplace. College kids are out. Brandon hasn’t been in any type of problem, nor is he in any type of problem in this case. Just in the incorrect area at the incorrect time.”
Can’t control what everyone does? Wrong area at the incorrect time?
We’ll discover out quickly enough if Alabama can win a nationwide champion in guys’s basketball. But on the scale of insensitive things that have come out of coaches’ mouths when real disaster touches their program, Oats might have simply offered Art Briles a run for his cash.
Oats lateron released an apology for his “unfortunate remarks,” stating, “in no method did I mean to downplay the severity of the scenario of the disaster of that night.”
“We were notified by law enforcement of other student-athletes being in the area, and law enforcement has consistently informed us that no other student-athletes were presumes – they were witnesses just. Our understanding is that they have all been dully genuine and cooperative,” Oates included. “My declarations came throughout inadequately.”
The information of the case came out openly Tuesday throughout a initial hearing for 2 guys, Michael Davis and Darius Miles, who were charged in the killing of Jamea Jonas Harris on Jan. 15 after what appears to be a late-night argument that intensified into a shootout near Bryant-Denny Stadium. Davis and Miles have consequently declared they acted in self-defense.
This event acquired instant nationwide attention since Miles hadactually been a member of the Alabama basketball group and hadactually been ruled out of competitors the day of the shooting duetothefactthat of an ankle injury.
As these things tend to play out, though, the shooting faded into the background. Alabama moved on and kept winning videogames. It didn’t appear there was going to be much more fallout for a group that has controlled the Southeastern Conference this season.
But then Tuesday’s hearing occurred, and the