NY Giants hire another coach with University of Alabama ties

The NY Giants have further expanded their coaching staff by adding another coach with ties to the Alabama Crimson Tide.

When NY Giants head coach, Joe Judge, signed on with the University of Alabama as its special team’s coordinator in 2009 it was the big break he’d been looking for. After serving as a graduate assistant and then a linebackers coach at little known Birmingham-Southern, Judge took the special teams job with Saban and has not looked back.

That two-year stint in Tuscaloosa would go a long way in shaping Judge into the type of coach he is today and likely gave him the pedigree (and recommendation) needed to secure a job with the Patriots that he turned into an eight-year-gig.

Judge’s official title with Alabama was ‘assistant to the special teams coordinator’, and that coordinator’s name was Bobby Williams. Ten years later, Judge is the one hiring Williams’ son to his first head coaching staff with the NY Giants, as the organization has brought on Nick Williams as an offensive assistant.

Williams joins a Big Blue staff that is already littered with former Crimson Tide coaches.

Nick Williams’ forte is with wide receivers, and it’s expected he’ll work closely with wide receivers coach Tyke Tolbert and probably even the offensive gameplan staff as he makes his transition to the NFL.

After starting off as an offensive analyst with a special focus on wide receivers under Nick Saban in Alabama, Williams spent three years apiece as wide receiver coaches with Jacksonville State and Southern Illinois – where he also was the pro liaison- respectively, enjoying strong success that featured numerous all-conference wideouts.

Is this is for the coaching staff?

You’d have to think Joe Judge’s coaching staff is starting to get close towards capacity, as the first-year head coach has had all major coaching positions filled for quite some time but continues to add assistants and coaches for roles he later added.

It’s a solid strategy for a first-time head coach to surround himself with people he’s familiar with to help ease the difficult transition that is learning to become an NFL head coach.

By my count, Nick Wiliams is the team’s 20th’ coach overall. This will likely be Judge’s last hire as we don’t often see coaching staffs getting much bigger than that unless he decides to add a few more interns and small assistants.