Alabama Football Signed In a New Head Coach For $5.8 Million to Replace….

The official announcement of Kalen DeBoer’s first coaching staff in Tuscaloosa, Alabama football has finally begun.
The UA Athletics confirmed two long-expected promotions to the only on-field coaching positions held by holdovers from Nick Saban’s final staff, more than a month after he was formally hired on January 12.
Ahead of his sixth season, Freddie Roach, who was formerly the defensive line coach for the Alabama Tide, added the position of assistant head coach. After four seasons as the running backs’ coach, Robert Gillespie is currently an associate head coach.
Raisings are probably in store for both roles. Roach’s salary of $775,000 and Gillespie’s salary of $625,000 placed them 120th and 177th, respectively, in the USA Today assistant coach salary database.

The terms of DeBoer’s new contract, which is anticipated to be worth more than $10 million a year, and UA’s new contracts are still to be announced. Alabama announced in a press release that Roach and Gillespie had been promoted, adding that the University’s Board of Trustees had been “notified” of the agreements but had not yet given its formal approval.
“After meeting both of these guys, it was very clear to me that keeping Freddie and G as part of the staff was going to be important to our success,” stated DeBoer in a statement released by the program. These men are among the greatest coaches in the nation, they get along well with our players, and they are excellent recruiters.