Nick Saban reportedly hires Kyle Flood to coach Alabama’s offensive line
You can now mark off one opening on Alabama’s coaching staff heading into the weekend.
The latest hire from Nick Saban suggests Steve Sarkisian will indeed by Alabama’s new offensive coordinator as multiple reports claim Kyle Flood has been hired to be the Crimson Tide’s new offensive line coach. Ian Fitzsimmons of ESPN Radio and Travis Reier of BamaOnline/247Sports are both reporting the hire.
Flood worked with Sarkisian the last two seasons with the Atlanta Falcons. Before working in the NFL, Flood was the head coach at Rutgers. He spent only three seasons as head coach at the school but had served as an assistant with the program dating back to 2005.
After two seasons with the Falcons, Flood had recently received a promotion to a game clock manager position with the franchise. His duties were to include in-game decision making, clock management strategy, timeouts and challenges.
The end of Flood’s tenure at Rutgers was marred by controversy and scandal. We all know Saban seems to have a soft spot in his heart for tarnished coaches and this move appears to be the latest in a long line of rehabilitation projects the Alabama coach has undertaken when it comes to hiring assistants.
The offensive line position in Tuscaloosa was open due to the departure of Brent Key, who left to take over the OL coaching duties at Georgia Tech.
Flood can coach. If all he needs to focus on is the OLine he should do well..
I was hoping they wouldn’t hire him since he just got promoted to game manager for the Falcons. I wonder if they’ll hire for the position again or just let it go, hopefully the former because its much needed.
Not bad of a hire. Falcons O-Line was pretty good a year ago. Top 5 in sacks allowed I believe. With the talent at Bama we’ll be ok. Unlike other Bama fans I don’t have a problem with the Sark hire.
I wish. Matt Ryan got sacked the second most of any year in his career and the run game disappeared in a ton of games. Some of that had to do with Freeman being hurt but a lot of it had to do with the holes not being created. Not saying he won’t have success at Bama, I just wish he did have this success you speak of in Atlanta lol
Unless you were talking about 2017. Then yes, that was a good year.
Both offensive guards were injured and freeman was injured….so let’s be fair about our comments.
I can promise the Falcons o-line was not good last year lol. I don’t know if it was more a coaching issue or injuries but maybe he’ll be better with Bama.
A drunk and an academic cheat…nice.
Sounds like an Auburn graduation…
F off…on our worst year in a decade Bama was better than u f’ers.