re: Alabama to hire Wisconsin's Colin Hitschler

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Also starting to understand more about what approach we're going to take on defense. Fickell is a big proponent of the 3-3-5 stack that also is running 3 safeties.

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Good point. 3-3-5 has become pretty much the most common defensive set in modern college football. Will be a different base from what Bama has been running, but it won't be that foreign to any of the returning players.