Alabama pursued Ryan Grubb 3 different times, and finally, Kalen DeBoer's right-hand man will join him in Tuscaloosa.

This is potentially a huge moment for Alabama Crimson Tide football going forward. After floundering in some capacities offensively last year under a makeshift

But Grubb was sticking with the head coach with whom he’d through the ranks from the back roads of Sioux Falls to the pinnacle of the college game. He was a Kalen DeBoer guy, enough so to follow him to Tuscaloosa last January to accept the gig he rebuffed a year earlier.