Coach Saban & Bama get some ink in the AJC.
as for your reference to areas of concern, i tend to agree with you that special teams is the scariest, especially since richt hasn’t taken any really concrete steps to revamp that portion of the game, aside from saying they’ll practice it more and more starters will play kick coverage. Like many fans, i wish he would name a special teams coach to focus more directly on that area, though i understand that ncaa coaching limitations complicate that.
there apparently are ways to get around those limitations, however, as nick saban is showing at alabama. al.com recently reported saban’s staff now includes nine “analysts,” up from six last season and three the year before that. Five of the “analysts” work with the offense, three “analysts” work with the defense, and john wozniak, most recently the running backs coach and co-special teams coordinator at uab, is alabama’s new special teams “analyst.” if he can’t free up a coaching position to handle special teams, maybe richt needs to follow the saban model and add a special teams “analyst” to his staff.
nick saban supplements his coaching staff with "analysts." (ap)
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