Tony Kornheiser has priceless rant to recent comments after Nate Oats calls out Coach K
By Sydney Hunte
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Alabama men’s basketball head coach Nate Oats has been a major talking point over the past couple of days.
Following Duke’s Tuesday night loss to Illinois in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge, longtime Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski remarked that he “(didn’t) think it feels right to play anybody” and that college basketball was “just plowing through” in the wake of the recent rise of COVID-19 cases nationwide.
Oats responded to those remarks on Thursday, suggesting that Krzyzewski only brought it up since the Blue Devils had lost a pair of non-conference games at Cameron Indoor Stadium, the earliest they have lost multiple games. at the iconic venue in nearly 4 decades.
Good thing Tony Kornheiser isn’t Coach K, or the longtime “Pardon the Interruption” co-host would be out for revenge. And not just toward Alabama, either.
“I would get a picture of Nate Oats. I would put it in my bathroom so that I would see it every single day so that I could focus my hatred on Nate Oats,” Kornheiser told guest host Pablo S. Torre, filling in for Mike Wilbon on Friday’s episode. “And then I would call my AD and I would say…’Get Alabama in here. Get them on our schedule. Give them any guarantee that they want. And then I would go out and try to beat Nate Oats by all the points the law allows.”
Kornheiser was far from done, though.
“Then I would schedule…Buffalo, where Nate Oats coached before, and I’d try to beat them by 100. Then I’d go to Wisconsin-Whitewater … where he was an assistant, and try to beat them by 100. Then I would go to Romulus High School in Michigan, where he coached and try to beat them by 200.
“If I were Mike Krzyzewski, I would unleash all the fury of Duke and (his) 5, count them, 5 championships—I don’t know how many ‘Oatsy’ has—and I would aim them at this guy because that would bother me.”
Again, it’s a good thing Kornheiser isn’t Coach K.
How would Coach K(ornheiser) respond to Nate Oats? Funny you should ask… pic.twitter.com/hBomtcCrcy
— PTI (@PTI) December 11, 2020
Sydney is an Atlanta-based journalist who has covered everything from SEC and ACC football to MLS, the U.S. men's national soccer team and professional tennis. His work has appeared on such platforms as SB Nation, Cox Media Group and FanSided.
