Report: Saban to Hire ex-Michigan Coach

His role is TBD and may only be temporary, but reports are circulating that Alabama football coach Nick Saban is adding former Michigan assistant George Helow.

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It's not certain if Helow will be a permanent staff member as an assistant or analyst or if he's a temporary consultant to help prepare the Crimson Tide to face his former employer at Pasadena's Rose Bowl Jan. 1 in the Playoff semifinal.

With outside linebackers coach Coleman Hutzler leaving to be DC in Starkville after the postseason, this could be a move to replace him by making Helow full time after Hutzler leaves Tuscaloosa. That, too is to be determined, but Helow did coach linebackers in Ann Arbor.