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In Briefs: Alabama Coaching Announcement Imminent

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We don't have anything officially confirmed yet, but the Alabama Crimson Tide have begun to make offers to fill their vacant head coaching position, after Eric mcIlguham resigned in late March.

I think that a lot of people were waiting for the Texas job to shake out before Alabama made their call, and now that Carol Capitani has been locked-in there, Alabama becomes the top available gig.

The new name that everyone likes for this job is former Tennessee assistant/interim head coach Lars Jorgensen. He was the man with the unfortunate task of taking over the Volunteer men's team mid-season, before it was combined with the women under Matt Kredich last week.

Jorgensen seems like a good fit there. His history is at a fellow SEC school, so he knows the lay of the conference. He's gotten very good reviews as an assistant (and in his short time as the interim coach in a tough situation). He's still very young, and would be a long-term solution.

One would imagine that after tasting the blood-in-the-water in his opportunity to spend a few months as a head coach of a major program, he's hungry to make the jump permanantly now. He has previous experience as the head coach at Toledo too.

Put your antennas up, an official announcement should be out this week some time.


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