In this morning’s Birmingham News, Joseph Goodman had an interesting idea I hadn’t seen put forward (and no, I can’t believe I just typed that).
DeMeco Ryans as DC and HC in Waiting.
I’m not sure I like that, but only because the Head Coach In Waiting thing seems like a good idea in theory, but hasn’t worked well in practice. In fact, off the top of my head, I can’t think of a single time that it’s worked at all.
If he gets an NFL HC job and succeeds in it, I could, however, see DeMeco as Saban’s successor.