Happy Friday, everyone. Yesterday we found out how much Nick Saban makes in his new position at the top.
Nick Saban’s salary in his new role at Alabama Athletics is official.
The retired Alabama football coach will now earn $500,000.04 in annual salary at a monthly rate of $41,666.67, according to payroll documents The Tuscaloosa News obtained through an open records request.
According to the form, in your position, this salary is part of a 40-hour work week. The new position officially started on March 1.
His employee class has changed and he is in a different department, while his “title/rank” has changed from “head coach” to “professional.”
Apparently his base salary as head coach was also 4 cents at the end. I’m not sure what that is, but half a million for a part-time job isn’t bad.
Courtney Morgan certainly doesn’t work part time. She’s behind a paywall, but Alex Scarbrough has a great profile of him this morning and how he and Kalen bonded.
DeBoer learned that Morgan had deep ties to California and a tireless work ethic, and led him to Fresno State when he took over as head coach in late 2019. He immediately, DeBoer said, “came to our attention as the right guy.”
A mutual respect and deeper connection developed between the two. Morgan could recognize in DeBoer a fellow underdog. He had felt that way all his life, ever since elementary school teachers thought he wasn’t smart because his attention wandered. The problem was that not all subjects held his attention — at least not the way history did. Morgan said he had read “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and “The Diary of Anne Frank” before he was 12.
“I always had resentment and drive,” he said. And he felt that in DeBoer. “Even though he is very successful, people always doubted him.”
It could be the indispensable piece that others will no doubt try to snatch from you in the years to come.
If you’re interested in how video game people view Alabama, this next one is for you.
The Tide’s offensive attack will look different this season, with DeBoer bringing his high-powered system from Washington, where he led the Huskies to a national championship game appearance. Milroe appears destined to be a force in both virtual games and real life, and he appears on the cover of the deluxe edition of College Football 25 after getting votes for the Heisman Trophy in 2023.
On defense, Nick Saban’s departure will be obvious as UA adjusts to a new system led by new coordinator and former South Alabama head coach Kane Wommack. Still, UA seemed to believe in both Wommack and the Tide’s defensive roster.
Alabama was ranked as the No. 4 defensive team in the game. UA was ranked as a team with an overall rating of 90 on that side of the ball.
They gave Colorado the 20th best defense in the country, so I wouldn’t read too much into it.
Finally, SI finished his opponent’s pre-series with the cowardly Barn.
It looked like Hugh Freeze was going to pull off a huge upset and ruin Alabama’s playoff chances in his first try as Auburn’s head coach in 2023. But Jalen Milroe and the Crimson Tide offense had something to say about that in the final minute of the game.
Milroe converted one of the improbable plays in college football history on 4th-and-31 with 32 seconds left to put Alabama ahead, instantly etching himself into Iron Bowl lore to snatch a victory from the jaws of defeat.
Alabama has now beaten Auburn four straight times for the first time since winning nine straight from 1973-81. The Crimson Tide hasn’t lost an Iron Bowl at Bryant-Denny since 2010, and Kalen DeBoer has a chance to extend both streaks in his first season as Alabama’s head coach. Freeze will look to turn things around in Year 2 when the two teams meet to close out the 2024 regular season in one of sports’ greatest rivalries.
That’s all for today. Have a nice weekend.
Rolling tide.
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