UNC basketball head coach search profile: Nate Oats
Nate Oats is a candidate for the UNC basketball head coach job. We look at his coaching record and off-court issues.
The search for the next head basketball coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels is underway, and there have already been plenty of names thrown around. It’s looking more and more likely that the Tar Heels will hire a coach from outside the Carolina family. That has not happened since UNC hired Frank McGuire in 1952.
That hire worked out well, as McGuire led Carolina to its first national championship in program history. McGuire left for the NBA in 1961, and that led to Dean Smith being promoted to the head job. That move led to 65 years of Carolina being led by members of the “family,” coaches who are either UNC alumni or who have coached for the program.
That seemingly ended with Hubert Davis being fired earlier this week, and several big-time names have been thrown around. One of those names was Alabama head coach Nate Oats. Nate Oats' prior experience Oats had to work his way up, quite literally.
He began his coaching career at Division III programs Maranatha Baptist and Wisconsin-Whitewater. He then left the college ranks to become head coach at Romulus High School outside Detroit, a job he held from 2002 to 2013. He was highly successful there, compiling a 222-52 record and reaching the state semifinals five times.
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