Kalen DeBoer added another new face to his coaching staff at Alabama Thursday night as ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported that Wisconsin safeties coach/Co-DC Colin Hitschler is expected to join the staff in an undefined assistant role.
Sources: Alabama is expected to hire Wisconsin safeties coach/CO-DC Colin Hitschler as an assistant coach.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) January 19, 2024
Hitschler is the second new coach with ties to South Alabama as he was a staff member from 2014-17 beginning as a graduate assistant and later a safeties coach. He would cross paths with new Crimson Tide defensive coordinator Kane Wommack from 2016-17 before moving onto Luke Fickell’s staff at Cincinnati.
While with the Bearcats, Hitschler began as a quality control assistant where he would later be promoted to senior defensive analyst and then was ultimately moved back up to coaching the safeties. Hitschler would later follow Fickell to the Badgers this past season after he was named the head coach.
Hitschler also brings NFL ties to DeBoer’s staff as he was a training camp assistant with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2009 and a player personnel assistant with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2010.
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Patrick Dowd is a Reporter for Touchdown Alabama Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter, via Pat_Dowd77
