Alabama football: Nick Saban adds former head coach to staff
By John Buhler
Nick Saban lands yet another former head coach on his Alabama football staff in Ron Cooper.
With Nick Saban losing so many coaches from last year’s staff, he has gone about adding one former head coach after another to give his Alabama football program the best chance at success. On Monday, he hired former Louisville Cardinals head coach Ron Cooper to his support staff.
Cooper led the Cardinals from 1995-1997. He also served as Eastern Michigan’s head coach before that and as Alabama A&M’s shortly thereafter. Cooper most recently was the defensive backs coach at Arkansas under former Razorbacks head coach Chad Morris. He has worked at three other SEC schools this century in Mississippi State, South Carolina and Texas A&M.
Nick Saban has rebuilt his Alabama coaching staff marvelously this offseason
After losing top coaches like offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian to Texas and running backs coach Charles Huff to Marshall, Saban reloaded his staff by getting former Houston Texans head coach Bill O’Brien and former Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Doug Marrone. Cooper is now the latest former head coach to be joining Saban in Tuscaloosa ahead of the 2021 campaign.
Overall, it may seem strange that so many former head coaches want to come to Alabama to get the Saban rehabilitation treatment, but you know what, it works. There is something inherently galvanizing about competing for a national championship every season. Even if Cooper is grossly overqualified for an analyst role, maybe he figures something out to help Alabama repeat in 2021?
Despite getting decimated in the coaching department, Saban has assembled a great new staff.
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