New Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer is on the verge of hiring a second sitting head coach to his workers, as Buffalo head coach Maurice Linguist is anticipated to affix the Crimson Tide as a defensive assistant, an individual with information of the negotiations confirmed to The Athletic. ESPN first reported the information.
Linguist spent the previous three years at Buffalo compiling a 14-23 report, highlighted by a 7-6 season and Camellia Bowl win in 2022. The transfer comes proper after DeBoer employed South Alabama head coach Kane Wommack to be Alabama’s defensive coordinator.
Linguist is a Dallas native and a Baylor alum with deep recruiting ties within the state. He was Texas A&M’s cornerbacks coach in 2018 and ’19 and spent 2020 because the Dallas Cowboys’ defensive backs coach. He has additionally coached at Mississippi State, Minnesota, Iowa State and Baylor, the place he performed security.
Alabama’s defensive workers now consists of Wommack, Linguist and line of defense coach Freddie Roach.
What does Linguist’s rent imply for Alabama?
Regardless that Linguist’s place isn’t but specified, it’s doubtless that Linguist will man the Alabama defensive backs — each position he’s served in previous to changing into Buffalo’s head coach concerned teaching defensive backs. Solidifying that place is a very excessive precedence for Alabama, which has seen a number of defensive backs enter the switch portal since Nick Saban’s retirement. Linguist’s regional ties continues the development that DeBoer has established for his defensive workers, and his NFL expertise is an added bonus. Alabama’s on-field teaching workers is sort of full, with simply two vacancies remaining: outdoors linebacker and particular groups coordinator.
General, it seems that DeBoer sought continuity inside his offensive workers, bringing in his whole Washington workers on that aspect of the ball, excluding working backs coach (the place Robert Gillespie was retained). On the defensive aspect, DeBoer is focusing on younger, skilled coaches with Southern ties. — Kennington Smith III, Alabama beat author
What now for Buffalo?
It’s the second time in 4 years that the Bulls need to discover a new head coach at a troublesome time on the calendar. In 2021, Lance Leipold left for the Kansas job on the finish of April, resulting in an atypical search. It must be simpler this time round, however mid-January shouldn’t be splendid.
Buffalo gained two division titles beneath Leipold, so it is a place that may win. The college additionally usually has the biggest athletics price range within the MAC. However recruiting is a problem, and the brand new period of faculty soccer makes it troublesome for MAC applications to carry on to high gamers.
This additionally marks the second consecutive offseason by which a MAC head coach has taken a Energy 4 assistant job, after Sean Lewis left Kent State for the Colorado offensive coordinator job final yr. — Chris Vannini, nationwide faculty soccer author
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