Sylvester Croom and Mike Groh emerge as candidates for Alabama assistant vacancySaturday, January 29, 2011, 4:52 PM By Izzy Gould/Tuscaloosa Bureau, The Birmingham News, Press-Register, and The Huntsville Times TUSCALOOSA -- Alabama's search to fill an assistant coaching vacancy has heated up with a pair of candidates still in play and another apparently off the table. Tee Martin was promoted by Kentucky to passing game coordinator, the school announced Saturday afternoon. Martin, a former star quarterback at Tennessee and Williamson High, was believed to be a target to fill a vacancy on Alabama's coaching staff left by Curt Cignetti. Cignetti, who was the Crimson Tide's wide receiver coach and recruiting coordinator, left the staff two weeks ago to accept a head coaching job at Division II Indiana University of Pennsylvania.Martin told reporters Saturday he would not name any schools that expressed interest in hiring him, but confirmed he did not interview anywhere.Other names to surface in Alabama's search for an assistant include St. Louis Rams assistant Sylvester Croom, and Louisville assistant Mike Groh. Croom was an offensive lineman at Alabama where he played and then later coached as an assistant. He later became the head coach at Mississippi State from 2004-08 becoming the first African-American football coach in the SEC.Groh is the quarterbacks coach at Louisville, and had a brief stop in Tuscaloosa as a graduate assistant in 2009. Groh is a former Virginia offensive coordinator where he coached for his father, Al Groh, a friend of Alabama coach Nick Saban.Saban said Monday he was focused on recruiting, and would use "due diligence" in selecting a new assistant. Cignetti was the third Alabama assistant to leave the staff since Alabama's 49-7 win against Michigan State in the Capital One Bowl on New Year's Day. Chris Rumph replaced Bo Davis as the defensive line coach after Davis took an assistant job at Texas. Jeff Stoutland replaced Joe Pendry, who remains at Alabama in an advisory role after he retired from coaching.
I think that a WR coach should at least look he might be able to demonstrate an out pattern without looking like he might have a heart attack.
So, the Red Cross now has a football team?
I think it is a MASH unit and he goes by the name of "spearchucker".
DAS RACISS.....
.Only if Frank burns says it.
Hot Lips wants to see you in her tent.
The major needed some discipline.
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