Alabama Fires Safeties Coach and Co-DC

Alabama Football will have at least one new face on the coaching staff next season. ESPN reports that Alabama secondary coach and Co-Defensive Coordinator Colin Hitschler has been fired one year into a two-year contract in Tuscaloosa.

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Hitschler worked primarily with the safeties in Alabama's secondary, while Maurice Linguist coached the cornerbacks.

With Hitschler moving on, Alabama is expected to promote Chuck Morrell to linebackers coach. Defensive coordinator Kane Wommack will likely oversee the entire Alabama defense, and co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach Maurice Linguist will coach Alabama's whole secondary.

Hitschler came to Tuscaloosa by way of Madison, Wisconsin, where he was the safeties coach and No. 1 recruiter for the Badgers. He followed Badgers' head coach Luke Fickell from Cincinnati, where he spent five years with the Bearcats. Before Cincinnati, Hitschler spent 2014-2017 in Mobile, Alabama, where he coached safeties on Wommack's coaching staff for the Jaguars.

“Probably the best gameday mind adjustment-wise that I’ve been around,” Wommack said of Hitschler this season. “He sees things up in the box, does a great job of being kind of my eyes and ears up there from a communication standpoint on gameday."

“I’ve been around some really special defensive coaches over the years, and he’s probably at the top of the list in terms of his ability to create value as a defensive staff on gameday. He is somebody I certainly lean on and rely on up there.”

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