For the first time since 1969, Alabama football left Nashville, Tennessee, as losers against the Vanderbilt Commodores. Last Saturday, despite closing as a 22.5-point favorite and outscoring Vandy 148-3 across the previous three matchups, the then-top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide fell to the SEC opponent 40-35. The 40 points scored by the Commodores is the most they have posted against Alabama since a 78-0 beatdown in 1906.
The fallout of the historic defeat has sent the Crimson Tide to the seventh spot in the most recent AP Poll Top 25, while critics have blasted head coach Kalen DeBoer for his team’s lack of defensive preparation. On Monday, in what many consider a correlated move, the Alabama football team lost a defensive lineman to the transfer portal. Alabama fans were in a state of anger and confusion following the loss of one of their top interior defenders.
Fans React to Interior Defensive Lineman Darting for Transfer Portal
According to On3:
REPORT: Alabama DL Jehiem Oatis plans to redshirt and enter the NCAA Transfer Portal, per @PeteThamel.
On Tuesday, the Alabama football program became a victim of a player exercising his redshirt and entering the transfer portal, similar to former UNLV quarterback Matthew Sluka late last month. Junior defensive lineman Jehiem Oatis will head to the portal after the team’s infamous loss to the Vanderbilt Commodores. Oatis appeared in all five games this season, collecting two tackles and a pass defended.
A four-star recruit in the class of 2022, Oatis took a step back this year, following back-to-back productive seasons, to start his college career with Alabama football. In 2022, the Mississippi native posted 29 tackles, two TFLs, and a sack. As a sophomore, the six-foot-five, 235-pound defensive tackle tallied 26 tackles, one TFL, and a sack. Many college football fans and Alabama devotees did not mince words with Oatis’ transfer coming on the heels of the team’s loss to Vandy:
Smart decision young man. I couldn’t handle losing to vandy either
— Robert McVol (@vol_equalizer) October 7, 2024
He's refunding all of the generous donors who gave him their hard-earned money, right?
— Zachary (@osuzack) October 7, 2024
So instead of getting better and earn the playing time, he just gonna quit
— DR_ODD (@dDOdoctor) October 7, 2024
Bama falling apart already
— ℍ𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕥𝕠𝕟⚡️ (@HamDawg115) October 7, 2024
Transfer portal is a joke and is ruining the game
— GlockAndRoll (@RedWhiteTrue12) October 7, 2024
There were a lot of murmurs of Oatis hitting the portal last year. Know he’s been dealing with injuries, but he’s a really good player. Losing him isn’t gonna help Bama https://t.co/6MUy9mvZj6
— Graham Coffey (@GrahamCoffeyDC) October 7, 2024
Oatis leaving makes me wonder what’s going on with Keon Keeley, I’ve barely seen him on the field.
— 18x National Champions 🐘 (@_Tide18Tymes) October 7, 2024
Thanks for running off oatis, a player that wouldn’t get blown backwards every play against Vanderbilt
— hingle mcringleberry (@hinglemcringl11) October 7, 2024
Defense is a hot mess and Wommack may be in over his head.
— NC (@NCforBAMA) October 7, 2024
More to come…It's not the Alabama they signed for. THAT will become clearer over the next 3-4 weeks.
— Limit Up (@LimitUpLLC) October 7, 2024
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