Alabama 247 Log in and join. Malachi Moore / VIP Trending Alabama’s Top 25 Most Important Players for 2024: 12. Malachi Moore Why Alabama as a football school is beneficial to basketball, according to Nate Oats According to Nate Oats, Alabama’s football history is a benefit for the men’s basketball team. Michael Rodak MICKE RODAK 25 June, 7:56 p.m. Nate Oats, the men’s basketball coach at Alabama, is aware that his team plays football. “To say it’s not would be kind of absurd,” Oats said to coach and former Alabama player Mark Gottfried in a podcast that was released on Tuesday. Yet Oats, one of college basketball’s fastest-rising and currently highest-paid coaches, has agreed to sign several contract extensions to stay with the Tide even as the team’s How come Oats hasn’t transferred to a basketball school with a blue blood? because he sees Alabama’s football legacy and accomplishments as a benefit for basketball. “I tried to spin it in a way … if you understand how college athletics works and people are starting to see it in a big way right now with all the money and the [House] settlement,” Oats said. Football is currently the sport in collegiate athletics with the highest revenue. Not even close, really. You