Happy Friday, everyone. News is still pretty slow, and probably will be until after National Signing Day when the coaching carousel can really get to spinning. We’ll open today with the cool Jalen Hurts tribute video from the football marketing folks.
Great stuff.
Since there’s nothing else to talk about, we might as well beat this assistant coach thing into the ground. It has now been confirmed in multiple places that Pete Golding was actually calling the defense in the playoffs, and had been as far back as October.
After some early struggles during the season, Saban stripped Lupoi of defensive play-calling responsibilities and handed them over to co-defensive coordinator Pete Golding, according to sources.