On Monday, Georgia football was able to make one of the biggest offseason splashes when it hired Nick Saban’s longtime strength coach Scott Cochran away from Alabama.
At Georgia, Cochran will serve as Kirby Smart’s special teams coordinator. The two coaches remained close ever since their days of working together in Tuscaloosa and you may remember Smart unsuccessfully trying to bring Cochran with him to Athens when he was first hired at UGA.
Alabama fans understand just how big of a blow this is to Saban’s program. Cochran has been in Tuscaloosa since 2007 and was considered Saban’s right-hand man, having been on staff for all six of his national titles, including in 2003 at LSU.
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But it’s just not Bama fans who are in panic mode. There have been multiple former players take to Twitter to express just how much Cochran means to the Tide program, including Raiders running back Josh Jacobs.
Having been there since 2007, Cochran helped coach and physically develop hundreds of Alabama players, who all understand Cochran’s value to the program.
There’s a reason why this is as big of news as it is. I mean, how often does a strength coach leaving make as big of headlines as it did on Monday?
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