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Former Tide LB, Super Bowl champion Courtney Upshaw joins UAB football as a volunteer coach

Of the many lessons he provides, the biggest advice Nick Saban has given his players at Alabama is there is a life after football.

As much as we enjoy these athletes catching touchdown passes, tossing for scores, making plays on defense and the celebrations that follow, it is about impacting the next person at the end of the day. In the case of Courtney Upshaw, this is what the former Crimson Tide linebacker is doing. He was an unbelievable athlete at Eufala (Ala.) High School and became one of the greatest outside linebackers of the Saban era. Once a four-star recruit in 2008, Upshaw captained the 2011 defense to being college football’s elite group in all five major categories.