Alabama has added to its off-field staff.
On Saturday, Bert Biffani announced he has joined the defensive staff at Alabama.
“Thank you Coach Fisher and the rest of Texas A&M for the incredible experience I had in College Station. With that being said I’m excited to say that I am joining the defensive staff at the University of Alabama. #RollTide” Biffani tweeted.
It will be Biffani’s first time working at Alabama, but Nick Saban’s concepts and coaching style should be familiar. Biffani has worked under former Saban assistant Jimbo Fisher at Florida State (2013-18) and Texas A&M (2019). Per Biffani’s LinkedIn, at FSU he served as a defensive quality control coach assisting and helping coach defensive line and outside linebackers, contributing and assembling defensive gameplan, working on practice plans and scripts and breaking down defensive film. The Seminoles won the national championship in 2013, the final BCS championship game.
After Fisher’s departure from FSU, Biffani initially went to Tennessee to reunite with Jeremy Pruitt, the defensive coordinator for the Seminoles in 2013. After a year on Pruitt’s staff as a quality control assistant, Biffani reunited with Fisher at Texas A&M as a graduate assistant.
Biffani is also familiar with Crimson Tide safeties coach and associate defensive coordinator Charles Kelly, who succeeded Pruitt as FSU’s defensive coordinator from 2014-17 and was also on Pruitt’s Tennessee staff in 2018.
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