The Alabama football coaching staff that Kalen DeBoer assembled is that he has multiple assistants who left FBS head coaching jobs to join the Crimson Tide.
Co-defensive coordinator/secondary coach Maurice Linguist is one of those. Linguist, speaking for the first time publicly on Wednesday since he departed Buffalo, shed light on his decision to leave a head coaching job for an assistant coaching job.
“Difficult decision,” Linguist said. “Anytime you reach an aspiration of running your own program and all the work that you put in, all the years of work that goes into getting to that point that you’re an FBS head coach, I will tell you it was an extremely difficult decision to leave that. I wouldn’t have left it for anything, but when you’ve got a place like Alabama and a head coach like Kalen DeBoer who’s a proven winner and coaches that I know, (general manager) Courtney Morgan and I have a prior relationship, Kane Wommack and I have a prior relationship, things just kept aligning a certain way where it was just tugging at you, tugging at you and it was ultimately like yeah this is the right move.”
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Linguist had been at Buffalo from 2021-2023 and had a 7-6 season his second year that resulted in the Bulls winning the Camellia Bowl. He said he saw a dynamic in Group of Five football that was shifting and changing when asked about the evolution of college football with the transfer portal and NIL.
“I had back to back No. 1 recruiting classes in the Mid-American conference, first time in Buffalo history we had ever had No. 1…
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Author : The Tuscaloosa News
Publish date : 2024-03-07 01:29:12
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