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How Tosh Lupoi is faring as Alabama's defensive coordinator

Tosh Lupoi still bellows. He continues to shout invective and scream his way through practice. But these days it's not just Alabama's band of edge rushers who are hanging on his every colorful word. The defensive backs are listening. So too are the inside linebackers and the nose guards and the big-bodied ends.

That's because Lupoi now runs the Crimson Tide's defense after he was appointed as the successor to former coordinator Jeremy Pruitt.

"Tosh has always made his presence felt," said junior outside linebacker Terrell Lewis. "So, that's why I feel like he got the job.