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Alabama’s Pete Golding is ‘one of the brightest defensive minds in college football’

Don’t let the backward visor Pete Golding is sporting in his Twitter profile picture fool you.

Having just turned 34 last month, Alabama’s new inside linebackers coach and co-defensive coordinator has a youthful look about him. But as his former coach and boss Ron Roberts will tell you, Golding is as good a technician of the game as he’s come across.

“I think he is as good as anyone in the country,” Roberts said of his former safety. “He is a football junkie.”

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