Report: Mike Locksley added to Alabama football staff

Once again, Nick Saban has (unofficially) added an experienced coach to Alabama’s football support staff.

While there has been no word from the school, al.com is reporting that Mike Locksley has joined the Tide as an offensive analyst. Locksley spent the past four seasons as the offensive coordinator at Maryland, and served as interim head coach for the last half of 2015 season following the firing of Randy Edsall.

Prior to that, Locksley was the head coach at New Mexico for two very “eventful” seasons before his dismissal in September of 2011.

Locksley’s résumé the past two years includes two wins — total — as the Lobos’ head coach; an age and sex discrimination lawsuit filed by a former administrative assistant; a physical altercation with an assistant coach that included Locksley being suspended for hitting a member of his staff; and some bizarre “car borrowing” incident involving a drunk 19-year-old who claimed to be a recruit.

While Locksley has made his coaching bones on the recruiting trail, he won’t be permitted to do so in his new capacity with the Tide. He still, though, will maintain deep ties to the talent-rich area of Maryland/Virginia/Washington D.C.

New Maryland head coach D.J. Durkin had wanted to keep Locksley on his first Terrapins staff, but it apparently wasn’t in the cards for either side. Additionally, 247Sports.com reports that Kentucky, North Carolina State, Pittsburgh and West Virginia were rumored as potential landing spots.