EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Coach Joe Judge can look around his New York Giants meeting rooms and see familiar faces who take him back to a previous life, coaches who were with him when they were low-level assistants on the University of Alabama staff from 2007 to 2012.
They called themselves the CLU (Cheap Labor Union), which is half a joke and half a badge of honor for those who were members of this tenacious group of go-getters under coach Nick Saban.
These assistants, some making as little as $22,500 with no health insurance, were trying to make their marks in a demanding career.