They don’t make a great deal of pay and most of their work is done in the background. But Nick Saban has said that their work is invaluable in everything from assisting in game planning and advice to the on field coaches. Many of these men consider it a graduate course for themselves in coaching. They learn the Nick Saban system for themselves as they help the Crimson Tide get better each week.
Under NCAA rules, there’s much they can’t do. The rules say teams can only have 10 “official” football coaches, but then as you can see, a lot if not most of the analysts that have gone through Alabama were coaches, so why don’t they count?