TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A few days after finalizing his offensive staff, newly-hired Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer is expected to hire South Alabama head coach Kane Wommack as the Crimson Tide’s defensive coordinator, sources have told 247Sports’ Matt Zenitz.
Wommack has spent the last three years at South Alabama, where he’s led the Jaguars to a 22-16 overall record. In 2022, South Alabama went 10-3 and won the Sun Belt title.
The 36-year-old Springfield, Mo. native previously worked with DeBoer at Indiana in 2019, when DeBoer was the offensive coordinator and Wommack was the defensive coordinator. The Hoosiers went 8-5 that year, which at the time was their first winning season since 2007.
Wommack stayed at Indiana in 2020, when the Hoosiers went 6-2 and finished with the No. 19 scoring defense in the country. He was one of five finalists for the Broyles Award, given annually to the top assistant coach in college football. He was hired at South Alabama after the 2020 season.
Prior to coaching at Indiana, Wommack was South Alabama’s defensive coordinator in 2016-17, Eastern Illinois’s defensive coordinator in 2014-15, and a graduate assistant and defensive backs coach at Ole Miss from 2012-13.
Wommack played at Arkansas, from 2005-06, and Southern Mississippi, from 2007-09. He then coached at UT-Martin in 2010 and Jacksonville State in 2011.
Cody Goodwin covers the Alabama Crimson Tide for 247Sports. Follow him on Twitter at @codygoodwin.
