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Jumbo Package: Why Have Former Saban Assistants Struggled as Head Coaches?

Happy Friday, everyone. Cyndee has you covered on the softball tournament and the baseball game last night was NSFW, so we will move along to football stuff. David Climer of the Memphis Daily News asks a fair question:

Bobby Williams was running backs coach at Michigan State in 1999 when Saban accepted the LSU job. Williams took over the Spartans and won the Citrus Bowl. He went just 6-15 in Big Ten play over the next three seasons, however, and was fired after a 49-3 loss to rival Michigan.

Williams is now in his second year as special assistant to the head coach at Alabama, where he previously coached tight ends and was special teams coordinator.