How Nick Saban's Alabama 'Process' is being channeled in Cajun Country
https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/i..._is_being.htmlBy the time Billy Napier ambles through the door with a Starbucks Venti in tow, the room is packed. Thirty-five people have grabbed their seats -- fanning out from a long center table to each of the walls. It's 7:45 on a pleasant April morning and another four months will pass before the first game is played.Inside the nerve center of the University of Louisiana's football program, Napier plops down in a chair, peers down at his notes and in his sleepy, Southern voice begins to outline the day's agenda. In precise, exacting detail, the coach runs through the practice schedule -- commenting on the execution of specific drills and the time budgeted for each of them.
His audience is captive.
Among those listening is a small cohort of staff members whose professional roots were established 403 miles away in Tuscaloosa, home of mighty Alabama. There is Mark Hocke, a supercharged Scott Cochran clone serving as the strength and conditioning guru. Nearby is Rob Sale, the offensive coordinator who played for Nick Saban at LSU and then apprenticed under him with the Crimson Tide. A few feet away is Katie Turner, the bubbly director of on-campus recruiting and former president of Zeta Tau Alpha's Alabama chapter. Lurking in the vicinity is Andrew Burkett, the Gardendale native and the director of recruiting research and evaluation.
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