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How Alabama coordinators balance College Football Playoff with new head-coaching jobs

Former Alabama offensive coordinator Mike Locksley still remembers glancing over at Jeremy Pruitt one late-December night in 2017 at a Sugar Bowl function.

Alabama was in New Orleans, preparing to face Clemson in the College Football Playoff semifinal, and Pruitt, then Alabama's defensive coordinator, was doing his best to burn both ends of the candle as the newly hired Tennessee head coach.

"I still have a picture in my phone, and Jeremy is sitting at a table at a function and he fell asleep," said Locksley, now Maryland's head coach. "It's hard to do, man, juggling two jobs.