Key Assistant leaves Alabama for UGA & Dane Brugler talks NFL Combine
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Longtime Nick Saban assistant Scott Cochran is leaving his job as strength coach at Alabama to become special teams coordinator at Georgia. It's a move that could tip the balance of power in the SEC. Colorado hires Karl Dorrell to replace Mel Tucker. Plus, The Athletic's Dane Brugler is in Indianapolis for the NFL Combine. Will 4 QB's come off the board in round 1?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Andy. Welcome to the show. We've got a big one for you today. We will start off with a very unorthodox move in the SEC that could have some reverberations throughout the league. It is very fascinating. And then later, our big combine preview with the athletics, Dane Bruegler. He's our draft analyst. He'll tell you all you need to know about |
| 0:21.3 | the combine. He'll explain what the most important part of the combine is. Spoiler alert, it is not the 40-yard |
| 0:27.5 | dash. And then we'll talk about the difference in evaluations in college and pro. And Dane's |
| 0:34.3 | going to get me on a point that I'm sure I had made, but he gets me. |
| 0:39.6 | You'll hear it in a little bit. |
| 0:59.6 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 1:03.4 | Big, big news coming out of the SEC. |
| 1:05.8 | We're going to talk Combine a little bit later, |
| 1:14.1 | but first we've got to talk about a move from Tuscaloosa to Athens that will echo throughout the SEC and maybe throughout the country if this works ultimately as planned. |
| 1:18.7 | Alabama Strength Coach Scott Cochran, perhaps the most important assistant coach in |
| 1:23.8 | college football in the last decade. |
| 1:26.2 | He's going to Georgia, not as the strength coach, |
| 1:28.7 | but as a special teams coordinator. He's getting on the field. He's wanted to be on the field. |
| 1:33.6 | Now, Scott Cochran, if you follow the SEC, you know exactly who it is. He's Mr. Yeah, |
| 1:38.3 | yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He is the voice, the soul, the guy who sets the tone for Alabama football, at least the guy who has during the Nick Saban era. |
| 1:50.0 | There are not a lot of constants other than Nick Saban in the Nick Saban era. He's had to replace a lot of assistance. |
| 1:56.4 | Burton Burns is finally gone, but he was there for all five national titles. Nick Saban was there for all five |
| 2:02.9 | national titles. Scott Cochran was there for all five national titles and was a very |
| 2:08.8 | critical part of the operation. But here's the thing. Scott Cochran has been wanting to move on to |
| 2:14.3 | the field. Why would he want to do that? Because he wants to be a head coach. |
| 2:18.4 | And let's think about everything that the modern strength coach has to do. You are essentially |
| 2:24.1 | the conduit to the players for at least half of the year, maybe even more. You spend more time |
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