Obviously, 2024 features a new horizon for Alabama football with Nick Saban gone, and there’s one college football coach who believes the Crimson Tide will take a step back in one crucial area on the field. Saban was a multi-faceted diamond as a football coach. He recruited incredibly well, for starters, but always fielded elite defenses and eventually pivoted to a more pass-centric offensive attack in the late 2010s and early 2020s to win his final championships. But it’s his savant-level understanding of defensive schematics that will be most missed, according to one anonymous college footba…