Muschamp, Strong, or Pruitt?

Pruitt AINEC. REC needs to do some work to pay off the NCAA to clear him ASAP.

Pruitt

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If the decision was yours to pick our next DC and Golding’s inevitable replacement, who would it be if those guys were your three options?

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It's an interesting question, and something to consider is how relevant their defensive expertise is in 2021 (it's been a long time since Champ and Strong were coordinating the championship caliber defenses on which they built their reputations) and what kind drive they have at this point in their careers. I doubt any of the three will get a top notch head coaching job ever again. It's a little easier to go that extra mile as a DC when you're full of ambition. Which one is the most likely to be satisfied in a long term role as DC at Alabama?

Pruitt for sure. His 2016 defense was legendary.

Would take any of the three over Golding, though.

I would also take Joe Kines over Pete Golding.

Pruitt, and for me, it ain't even close.

Pruitt would be my first choice, although would've bene nice if we'd at least ran off Golding prior to spring and told Strong the DC job was his if he didn't want to do the pros.

But also, if we fire Golding after perhaps another bad showing against MSU or even UT (god forbid it comes with another loss), would we promote Charles Kelly in the meantime? I know he didn't have a great stint at FSU as their DC, but he was the LB coach during their championship year. Could hand over all all the secondary to Valai and let Kelly take over ILBs and call plays? Is there any analyst we'd actually promote to an on-field role on defense?

I'm not sure what it would look like to get rid of a DC mid-season but maybe you just let Kelly take over play calling and have Pete focus on something else position wise?

Bring Brother Bill back as interim DC for redemption/victory lap.

He's probably got 9 games left in him

Strong and Muschamp are defensive relics that are living off their name and success against a different era of offenses.

It's easily Pruitt off that list.

They wanted Lake and Leonhard in the past, but their schools made power moves to keep them then. I think Leonhard will go down with the ship before he leaves, but Lake is already sunk at UW.