TUSCALOOSA | University of Alabama head football coach Mike Shula will announce at least one change on the Crimson Tide coaching staff at a Thursday press conference.
Shula will announce that Kent Johnston, strength and conditioning coach of the Seattle Seahawks, will take the same position with the Crimson Tide, The Tuscaloosa News has learned. Johnston replaces Ben Pollard.
Pollard was not immediately available for comment on Wednesday afternoon.
Johnston worked at Alabama from 1983-1986 under head strength coach Al Miller. Shula was a Crimson Tide player at that time. When Tide head coach Ray Perkins left for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League, Johnston joined Perkins’ staff. He has worked at the NFL level since that time, in Tampa Bay, Green Bay and Seattle.
Pollard came to Alabama as part of the staff brought in by former Crimson Tide head coach Dennis Franchione. When Franchione departed for Texas A&M in December 2002, Pollard declined an offer to go to College Station, and elected to remain in Tuscaloosa. He was retained as strength coach by Franchione’s successor, Mike Price, and remained in the position when Shula was hired in May 2003.
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