I would never leave an employer without telling them I was doing so. No ghosting here. Nothing but respect for CNS and Alabama. Bottom line, business is business and it was time for me to exit. Wish all the best to RTR, CNS and the program. — Dan Enos (@CoachDanEnos) January 17, 2019 After the report of disrespect went viral, Enos sent out a tweet saying that wasn't how it went down. "Some of this was expected," Feldman said about the Alabama staff changes during Thursday's appearance on The Paul Finebaum Show. "Before they had even beaten Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, a couple sources that I had had told me, last year they had six new assistants come in, and they were expecting similar amount of turnover. But the big surprise that no one was expecting was Dan Enos, who going to take over for Mike Locksley, and by all accounts inside the program had done a really good job in that quarterback room, not just with Tua Tagovailoa, but also Jalen Hurts. Was getting elevated to be the OC, and last Thursday night I heard some rumbling that he was in the mix for the Miami job. And I just thought, kind of dismissively, well he's not going to just leave Alabama with Tua and those four stud young receivers. Why would he do that? "And then the next morning it all blew up. And then the story that I lead with in the piece on The Athletic is ‘Where's Dan? Where the bleep is Dan?’ It kind of blindsided everybody there. People can read some of the color around it, but that was a curveball. Because what you've had with Nick Saban, and Nick Saban no doubt he is the greatest college football coach we've ever seen in the sport. And it's been remarkable what he's been able to do with a staggering amount of turnover. Five national titles at Alabama, four different offensive coordinators; coordinators have come and gone. Saban is the constant. Scott Cochran and Jeff Allen and the support side of things are a big piece of it, and that's part of the structure put in."<doc-sep>The Alabama coaching staff is finally taking shape after it was ravaged following the title game loss against Clemson. Former offensive coordinator Mike Locksley left to become the head coach at Maryland and his presumptive replacement, Dan Enos, left to take the offensive coordinator role at Miami alongside Manny Diaz. That left a major hole on the offensive coaching staff for Nick Saban to fill, but not long after, Alabama’s defensive coordinator Josh Lupoi took a job with the Cleveland Browns as the team’s defensive line coach. After getting crushed on both sides of the coaching staff, Saban finally nabbed a few coaches from around the SEC. Earlier this week, Saban landed longtime defensive assistant Sal Sunseri from Florida. Just one day later, Saban grabbed another top SEC assistant. This time, he’s stealing from Tennessee. According to Austin Price of VolQuest, Tennessee assistant Charles Kelly is leaving the Volunteers to join Saban’s staff. Tennessee head coach Jeremy Pruitt has lost assistant coach Charles Kelly to Alabama. The veteran secondary coach is leaving Rocky Top to coach the secondary for the Tide with sources telling Volquest that Kelly could be in line to for a bigger title once Nick Saban finalizes the rest of his staff. Saban’s staff finally appears to be taking shape. Stay tuned for an official announcement from Saban and the Crimson Tide.<doc-sep>
UPDATE: According to multiple reports, Kelly will leave for a job on the Alabama staff. Following that, Tennessee officially announced the addition of Tee Martin. As you probably know by now, Tee Martin has returned home to Knoxville and joined Jeremy Pruitt’s staff at Tennessee. That’s created an interesting situation for Pruitt, who now has 11 on the field coaches for just ten spots. That means one has to go. Safeties coach and special teams coordinator Charles Kelly has been the focus of this potential reshuffling this week. He was reportedly offered by Maryland this week to be Mike Locksley’s defensive coordinator, but turned that down. Now, according to John Brice, Nick Saban and Alabama are coming after Kelly. Am told @AlabamaFTBL is close to adding @Vol_Football Special Teams Coord/Safeties coach Charles Kelly. “Bama has strong interest” and “offer is there” per multi sources. W/ #Vols slightly overstaffed after adding Tee Martin, David Johnson has been off the recruiting trail today — John Brice (@JohnDBrice1) January 19, 2019 Saban has seen massive turnover on his staff once again in what has become a tradition this time of year in Tuscaloosa. He’ll have to replace both coordinators and a few position coaches — nothing new for him. Charles Kelly could be a fit as a defensive position coach for Saban, which would solve Pruitt’s numbers issue. If Kelly moves to Alabama, Tennessee could roll with six offensive coaches (Chaney, Martin, Weinke, Johnson, Friend, Niedermeyer) and four defensive coaches (Sherrer, Rumph, Fair, Rocker). Of course, there still could be some shuffling. Martin still has not been assigned an official title and likely won’t until the Tennessee staff gets back down to ten on-field coaches. We’ll update this post as details on Kelly emerge.