Last week, AL.com reported that Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban had met with Jones about a potential, “off-field role.”
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Jones has been out of football since being fired by the Volunteers last November. He’s currently being paid around $8.2 million from Tennessee after having his contract bought out and will be paid monthly until February 2021.
Jones will join a long list of former head coaches to take a role with Alabama that includes Lane Kiffin and Steve Sarkisian. Notably, Tennessee’s new head coach is former Alabama defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt.
This will be Jones’ first non-head coaching gig since 2006. Since that time he has served as the head coach at Central Michigan (2007-09), Cincinnati (2010-12) and Tennessee (2013-17).
