In coaching families, there are good holiday seasons and bad holiday seasons. You’re hustling off to a bowl game or you’re packing boxes for the next stop. For the Williams family, this year’s was a decidedly good holiday.
Bobby Williams, Alabama’s tight ends coach and special-teams coordinator, will try to collect his fourth national championship ring in seven years with the Tide this Monday night in Arizona. His son, Nick, will be in the stands at the College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T, hoping to be wearing a new ring of his own. The younger Williams is the wide receivers coach at Jacksonville State, which plays North Dakota State Saturday afternoon in the FCS Championship Game.