🏈 🔥 Hot Seat 2025 / Coaching Carousel: Alabama adds key personnel "behind the scenes."

[TerryP]

Roach is already the assistant head coach.

I see you've come back to "assistant head coach" on a few occasions. A title doesn't automatically mean equipped to coach a position. He was given the AHC title when he was retained by DeBoer. He wasn't given the title because the defensive line has been performing better than its peers.

 

[TerryP]

Based on what?

Is it evaluation or development that has lead to the dearth of draft picks from the defensive line?

 

[24and7]

I see you've come back to "assistant head coach" on a few occasions. A title doesn't automatically mean equipped to coach a position. He was given the AHC title when he was retained by DeBoer . He wasn't given the title because the defensive line has been performing better than its peers.

Yeah Roach isn't a good defensive line coach.. I figure he was given the assistant head coach gig because he was an essential recruiter and important to the morale, of the team.. not to mention he was an alum..In order to keep a job he should be moved to LBs..I'm sure he could coach them well..
But, he most likely will stay where he is..I hope for the best!

 

[AirForceBamaFan]

Based on what?

Productivity…what has the DL done since he took over…average production at best.

 

[AirForceBamaFan]

Is it evaluation or development that has lead to the dearth of draft picks from the defensive line?

I honestly think it’s both. Shouldn’t the DL coach be able to evaluate talent and coach them up? I haven’t seen Roach do well with either.

 

[TerryP]

Why you think Roach move to LB coach? We already have LB coach.

The frustrations I heard two years ago were loud. They've reached that decibel again. Over the last week or so I've started seeing it bleed over into the public forums.

 

[Justneedme81]

 

[Justneedme81]

This caught me off guard. Interesting direction Alabama is going with.

 

[AirForceBamaFan]

Georgia Tech pulled some good talent in the portal this year…better than would typically be expected

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

The frustrations I heard two years ago were loud. They've reached that decibel again. Over the last week or so I've started seeing it bleed over into the public forums.

JMO but I thought Kalen kept Freddie to try and keep some of the players from leaving and that might have worked in our favor. I am not impressed with inside LBer coach Morrell at all. Another of the Sioux BBQ Club.

 

[Justneedme81]

JMO but I thought Kalen kept Freddie to try and keep some of the players from leaving and that might have worked in our favor. I am not impressed with inside LBer coach Morrell at all. Another of the Sioux BBQ Club.

You gotta remember those LBs were under Saban..... and gotta look at the scheme as a whole.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Couple of notes on this...

Don't know much about Wise... but I am (and have been) all about adding more people with NFL scouting experience to the staff.

Alex Mathis has very deep ties into GA HS recruiting, an area UA is already pretty deep into. But this move helps even more.

Not mentioned in that tweet, but DeBoer has also hired Bradley Aoki from USC (a former USC walk on QB) as an analyst to assist Bryan Ellis working with the QB's. Aoki has been doing so previously with the Trojans on Lincoln Riley's staff, who himself is very hands on in terms of the quarterbacks. Before that, he spent a season on Jay Norvell's staff at Colorado State in a similar role. IMO, really good hire.