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First look at the New Orleans Saints 2024 offensive coaching staff

The New Orleans Saints 2024 offensive coaching staff is complete. Here’s a look at all of the new faces and returning assistants working with Klint Kubiak:

The New Orleans Saints had a frustrating offense in 2023, which led to an almost complete overhaul of the staff for the 2024 season.

Starting with a new offensive coordinator in Klint Kubiak, the Saints filled out a new staff that only has a couple of returning names. With the list of potential coordinators that the Saints interviewed, it is clear that the team wanted to take a younger and more innovative approach this season. Most of the traces of the Sean Payton era are now gone from the offense as they now embrace the new era of offensive football.

Here are all of the coaches that will run the Saints offense in 2024, as the team tries to find success with the same core players:

Nate Oats and Alabama basketball not in a rush to hire their third assistant

Nate Oats doing his due diligence on Alabama basketball’s third assistant.

The Alabama basketball program just completed its most successful season in program history, and the bill has hit hard. The Tide were the champions of the SEC in the regular season as well as the post-season tournament and went on to become the No. 1 overall seed in the 2023 March Madness tournament. The Tide was led by Nate Oats, who is obviously a great coach, but also Brandon Miller and three great assistant coaches.

As a top 10 player in the country, it was always likely that Brandon Miller was going to be a one-and-done player, so the departure didn’t shock anyone, but it will still hurt. He was the SEC Player of the Year, SEC Rookie of the Year, and a consensus second-team All-American. Miller is now on his way to being a top-three pick in the 2023 NBA draft.

The unsung heroes of the season were Alabama’s three assistants who were massive pieces of the puzzle. All three were excellent on the recruiting trail and very good situationally, so much so that they were each hired for head coaching jobs after the season. Bryan Hodgson went to Arkansas State, Charlie Henry to Georgia Southern, and Antoine Pettway to Kennesaw State.

Since then, Nate Oats has filled two of those three vacancies. The first hire was Austin Claunch who is only 33 years old but led Nicholls to back-to-back Southland regular season titles in 2021 and 2022 and was named the conference’s coach of the year as well in ’21. They also added Ryan Pannone, previously with the New Orleans Pelicans.

As of right now, Nate Oats is still taking his time on the third hire. He knows how important it is to have good assistants on your staff and there is still plenty of time until the season starts. I think the first two hires were absolute home runs, so the Tide are sitting pretty well as is.

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