The voice of Alabama football is lost anew every day. That’s not some exploratory metaphor; it’s quite literally gone. Each day, one after the next. It’s part of the job. In the rare instances Scott Cochran leaves his $9.1 million Tuscaloosa castle with a fully functioning voice box, he knows he didn’t work hard enough.
Where Nick Saban has flourished, Cochran, the team's strength coach, has been by his side: yelling, teaching, laughing, rapping, punishing, consoling, moving—always moving—and providing an influence well beyond what his title would imply.
“He is vital,” two-time Alabama All-American lineman Barrett Jones told Bleacher Report.