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MiamiBlowsChunks
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  Message Not Read  Sears, Oats Say Nice Things
   Posted: 3/29/2025 5:29:46 PM 
After hearing stuff about how he left, kinda surprised to read this when the Tide came to Cleveland.

“When I was at Ohio, I spent a lot of time developing, and they did a great job helping me be the player I am today,” Sears said. “I have some experience coming to Cleveland because we’ve been the past two times. One of those times, we had won it all here and the other time, we fell short. OU, I love it. That’s a part of me.”

“What he did at Ohio, particularly in his second year, was pretty remarkable,” Oats said. “When I got to Alabama, we kind of had our first few practices, me and the assistants that came from Buffalo with me to Alabama. We had quite a few kids at Buffalo that could have played here, really helped us. Kind of looked at what Mark was able to do in that league. That’s a really good league.”

There's Only One OU and it ain't in Norman
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Pete Chouteau
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  Message Not Read  RE: Sears, Oats Say Nice Things
   Posted: 3/29/2025 7:28:02 PM 
So what happened?
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  Message Not Read  RE: Sears, Oats Say Nice Things
   Posted: 3/29/2025 8:22:58 PM 
They didn't interview Mrs. Sears.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Sears, Oats Say Nice Things
   Posted: 4/1/2025 12:47:09 PM 
MiamiBlowsChunks wrote:
After hearing stuff about how he left, kinda surprised to read this when the Tide came to Cleveland.

“When I was at Ohio, I spent a lot of time developing, and they did a great job helping me be the player I am today,” Sears said. “I have some experience coming to Cleveland because we’ve been the past two times. One of those times, we had won it all here and the other time, we fell short. OU, I love it. That’s a part of me.”

“What he did at Ohio, particularly in his second year, was pretty remarkable,” Oats said. “When I got to Alabama, we kind of had our first few practices, me and the assistants that came from Buffalo with me to Alabama. We had quite a few kids at Buffalo that could have played here, really helped us. Kind of looked at what Mark was able to do in that league. That’s a really good league.”


Good stuff.

Many feel differently, but I watched a lot of Alabama over the last few years and was always excited to see him perform on that stage.

This is the world we live in now - we're a development league. Embrace it or don't. If we don't then we miss out on the next Mark Sears, and I would be extremely sad to never have these guys at all.

Sell your strengths, getting a Mark Sears and helping develop him into an NCAA All-American... we should be posting congrats and good luck and whatever else. I want to steal that thunder and use it to our advantage. Sour grapes are only sour to us.
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