re: Class of 2025 Football Recruiting MEGATHREAD

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Also of note, Wommack’s system utilizes a starting boundary cornerback and a field cornerback: The boundary corner takes the short side of the field from the hash mark to the sidelines while the field corner covers the wide side from the hash mark where the ball is spotted. This is a stark difference from Saban defenses that played the two cornerbacks exclusively on the left or right side.

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The fact that we're going with a more common college field v. boundary approach also changes some of our calculus on the secondary. Under Saban, Alabama needed to have corners that could handle both roles in coverage even if it wasn't defined positionally. There are coverage realities of being on field side or boundary side - especially with college hashes - that informs how you need to play a coverage.

Going to a scheme where one guy will always play with short-side rules and the other with wide-side rules is probably beneficial to breaking in new corners quicker.