Crimson Tide head trainer Nick Saban is bringing again a former assistant with intensive enjoy.
Alabama has employed former Texas trainer Charlie Strong as a defensive analyst, Sports Illustrated’s Ross Dellenger reported Wednesday.
Strong returns to Alabama after spending a 12 months as a Jaguars assistant in 2021 after which serving as co-defensive coordinator and linebackers trainer on the University of Miami remaining season underneath trainer Mario Cristobal.
Strong prior to now served as a defensive assistant at Alabama in ’20, serving to the Crimson Tide win the College Football Playoff nationwide championship. He rejoins Nick Saban’s training personnel to anchor a Crimson Tide protection that completed 3rd in passing yards (187.8) allowed and fourth in speeding yards (130.4) allowed consistent with recreation within the SEC in 2022.
Nationally, Alabama ranked thirteenth in general protection (318.2), 9th in scoring protection (18.15), thirty sixth in rush protection and seventeenth in passing yards allowed consistent with recreation. The information of Strong’s hiring comes just about 3 weeks after he knowledgeable Miami that he would no longer go back to this system after he used to be handed over to transform the Hurricanes’ subsequent defensive coordinator.
Strong’s occupation runs deep within the SEC. He began his training occupation as a graduate assistant at Florida (1983-84) and Texas A&M in (1985). However, Strong has spent a number of stints with the Gators over his training occupation.
From 2003-09, Strong served as a defensive assistant at Florida, in the long run as defensive coordinator. He additionally served as Florida’s meantime head trainer in this system’s ’04 bowl recreation following the firing of trainer Ron Zook.
He additionally served because the Gators’ out of doors linebackers trainer from 1988-89 and as a defensive assistant at Florida from 1991-94. From 2010-19, Strong served as a head trainer on the collegiate ranks for 10 seasons with stops at Louisville, Texas and South Florida.
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