re: Schuman DC Pruitt analyst

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Plus, coaching for your alma mater isn’t necessarily as great as you might think it is. What if things don’t work out, the fans trash you like they do CBO and CPG here, and you get fired? Kind of tarnishes the good memories from your youth.

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I would add to your point that not everyone has positive memories of their alma mater - all kinds of things can happen in your life that make your college experience different than the "best years of your life" stereotype. Not everyone gets to spend their college years having fun. I don't look back on my time as a student at UA with any nostalgia at all and I have much worse things to say about my time as an employee there. If Bama has an inroad with Schumann, it's because of his relationship with Saban, not because he went to UA back in the day.

One thing to think about as anyone who wants to be a head coach. AD and Presidents are making those decisions along with input from boosters and others. Getting your name out there and being in the media discussion is important to that it's not the only thing of course. Schumann getsno attention by the media outside or during the broadcast. If anything Will gets more. Watch any georgia game screen time is Kirby, Monkey and Will. Any shoot of Schumann is just the defense as a group. He will be a bigger face just like Pete was at bama.

I understand Pruitt not wanting to share the DC duties but I also understand Saban wanting that as a protection should an NCAA show cause end up coming for Pruitt down the road.

If I were a head coach, in the rarest of rare exception would co-head coordinators work well. No 2 coaches ever 100% agree. Get the man you believe in and give him the reins. Good for Pruitt. If Saban actually thought about doing this, oh brother....

Pull up your panties

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Not sure what this means. But does Pruitt really not understand that he's not in a position to make demands if he wants to coach in college again?

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It means Pruitt won't work in tandem with Golding. I wouldn't either. Apparently Pruitt woke Saban up about Pete's shortcomings.

I think that it was pretty obvious that Saban was tired of the turnover, and wanted an up and comer that would stay for more than 1 or 2 years. Unfortunately that also meant that he had to develop him, and it just didn't work out. Despite what people on this board say, Golding did show some inklings of promise, but then regressed horribly in 2022, which is why he is gone.

So far the biggest shock to me in this thread is that Saban was actually trying to keep Golding as a DC. W.T.F.???

Give it to JP and let's get BUSY!

If they don't think he's going to get in trouble with the NCAA then it's a no brainer to me.

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Despite what people on this board say, Golding did show some inklings of promise

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I have no inside info at all, but it seems to me Golding could draw up a defense very well. He just couldn't explain it well, or adjust on the fly. We generally had decent (not great, but decent) defensive performances in the post-season, which to me indicates when he had time to plan and could drill assignments over and over, it worked better.

The issues generally came during the season, when other teams broke tendencies or showed things we hadn't seen before on film. During those times the complexity of our defense became a liability due to his inability to communicate or adjust.

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but then regressed horribly in 2022

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The 2022 version of Alabama SHOULD have featured a generational defense, with talent, experience, and depth across the board. Instead we continued to wallow in mediocrity (by our standards, anyway). Seeing Georgia stifle a team like Tennessee who embarrassed us had to be a gut punch for Saban.