Burns to stay, Alabama hires Brown

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Running backs coach Burton Burns is expected to stay on Nick Saban's staff at Alabama

Reliable sources close to the situation tell BOL that running backs coach Burton Burns is expected to stay at Alabama, while Greg Brown has been hired as secondary coach:

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http://alabama.247sports.com/Article/Burns-to-stay-at-Alabama-Saban-expected-to-hire-Brown-110563
Reliable sources close to the situation tell BOL that running backs coach Burton Burns is expected to turn down an offer from Florida State and stay with the Crimson Tide:

This post was edited by Chris Walsh on 1/9/2013 at 4:26 PM
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5 months ago

Just FYI, I'm going to add some more to this story (including some more contract info, etc.) ...
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5 months ago

Awesome news...thanks!!
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Outstanding
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5 months ago via 247Sports Mobile

Great news. Glad to see this happen.
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5 months ago via 247Sports Mobile

Staff, thoughts on Brown? Good hire?
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5 months ago

Hell yes. Burns is one of the very best coaches of the Saban era. Huge to keep him on board.
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5 months ago

Anyone else go "Boooooom" when they got their text
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5 months ago

Pay the man...he's worth it!!
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5 months ago

Just added this - all assistant coaches are getting a bonus the equivalent to 16 percent of their base salaries for Alabama playing in a BCS bowl (it didn't have to be the national championship). For Burns that's $44,800.
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5 months ago

Good deal
In before FSU hires Nick Saban's driver
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What can you tell me about Brown as a recruiter?
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5 months ago

DOUBLE that Salary !!!! roll tide ... he earned it...........
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5 months ago

Good stuff thanks Chris...RTR
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5 months ago

I hope Brown can recruit. That was the biggest loss concerning Pruitt.
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5 months ago

Of all our recruits I wanted Burns! Good for us! Pay him!
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Outstanding News!!!
RTR
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5 months ago

Thanks for staying Coach Burns!
How long before Jimbo Fisher offer Coach Greg Brown?
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5 months ago

so on mike brown, can we say that he is better than colorados defensive statistical information would make one believe?
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Tee said...
What can you tell me about Brown as a recruiter?

Bump
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5 months ago via 247Sports Mobile

Or as a secondary coach?
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Tee said...
What can you tell me about Brown as a recruiter?

Or as a secondary coach?
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BDS said...
Or as a secondary coach?

From Bio...
..." A 15-year NFL coaching veteran, developing top notch defensive backs became his specialty as he was often sought after for new coaching staffs around the league, working with six different teams in his professional career.
In his four seasons during his second stint at Colorado, he helped tutor Terrence Wheatley, coaching him to first-team All-Big 12 honors and a second round NFL draft pick by the New England Patriots. He also tutored a pair of young cornerbacks in Jimmy Smith and Jalil Brown, the former a two-time All-Big 12 performer, as well as their coach for the 2010 season, Ashley Ambrose, who Brown recommended to Hawkins as a graduate assistant; he would replace Brown as secondary coach after his move to Arizona.
He coached the secondary for three years (1991-93) at Colorado under coach Bill McCartney, tutoring a pair of Jim Thorpe Award winners during his first days at CU: cornerbacks Deon Figures (the 1992 winner) and Chris Hudson (the '94 winner). Colorado led the nation in pass completion defense and the Big Eight in pass defense in 1992; he also coached the kickoff coverage unit on special teams for the Buffs. He joined the CU staff days after the Buffs won their first national championship (January 7, 1991), and returned to the NFL in 1994, joining the Atlanta staff as defensive backs coach; the Falcons finished second that season in the league with 23 interceptions.
He spent the 1995-96 seasons as the secondary coach for San Diego, with the Chargers finishing in the top five both years in fewest yards allowed per completion. He also coached Rodney Harrison, who eventually would become one of the league's top safeties. He moved on to the Tennessee Oilers, coaching the secondary in both 1997 and 1998; he again coached three of the top defensive backs in the game, cornerback Samari Rolle and safeties Blaine Bishop and All-Pro Marcus Robertson.
In 1999, he served as the defensive backs coach for the San Francisco 49ers; a twist with this was that had he not received an NFL offer, he was set to return to Colorado as a member of Gary Barnett's staff when he replaced Rick Neuheisel in January of that year. He rejoined the Atlanta Falcons as secondary coach for the 2000 and 2001 seasons before moving on to New Orleans, where he was a defensive assistant for quality control in 2002 before being promoted to defensive assistant/cornerbacks coach in 2003, a position he held for three seasons with the Saints."
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5 months ago

Sweet. Florida St need to go and raid some other Univerisity....
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