After playing around with things, I found it to be this plugin here....
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=1539933
I have another server with no bots for regular game play. So I generated a .nav file for it and added 16 bots to it. The bots performed just fine there. Then I took notice that all their weapons were stock as to where on the practice server, bots used all available weapons. I disabled the plugin mentioned above, smote the bots, and they moved right out of spawn and started fighting again with stock weapons.
It's a shame that the plugin is no longer supported and still has memory leaks. I've used it for quite a while and it was nice that the bots used the same weapons that players have.