The Alabama football program continues to prepare for the upcoming season by making adjustments to its coaching staff as head coach Kalen DeBoer is hiring Southern California offensive analyst Brad Aoki as a pass game specialist, according to Matt Zenitz and CBS Sports.
Aoki played wide receiver and quarterback for the Trojans from 2019-21 before transitioning into an offensive student assistant in 2022. He worked for Colorado State as an assistant wide receivers coach in 2023 before returning to Southern California in 2024.
He has spent the last two seasons largely working with the quarterbacks and has helped Lincoln Riley orchestrate one of the most potent passing attacks in the nation.
Alabama is hiring USC offensive analyst Brad Aoki as a pass game specialist, a source tells @CBSSports pic.twitter.com/1AXXHCGqgx
— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) February 17, 2026
Stop us if you've heard this before...
— Alabama Track & Field (@AlabamaTrack) February 17, 2026
Doris is your @SEC Women's Co-Runner of the Week!
The award is the fourth consecutive weekly conference honor earned by @UA_Athletics this season
https://t.co/zOd6N3tgT4#RollTide pic.twitter.com/KsAnEXtWIR
Alabama gymnast Azaraya Ra-Akbar was selected as the Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Week after raising her career high vault score to 9.975 and adding a 9.950 on the uneven bars and a 9.900 on the floor. Its her second award by the league office this season and she scored the highest freshman vault and tied for the top freshman bars score this week.
That’s our freshman! pic.twitter.com/mYRK09hijW
— Alabama Gymnastics (@BamaGymnastics) February 17, 2026
199 days
February 18, 1966: Brice Building won the contract to expand Denny Stadium to 56,000 seats by September 1. The cost of adding the 13,000 seats and modernizing the stadium was $1,044,763.
February 18, 1971: George Teague was born in Oscoda, Mich.
“Alabama’s cornerbacks don’t impress me one bit. They’re overrated. Real men don’t play zone defense and we’ll show them a thing or two come January 1st.”Lamar Thomas
Miami wide receiver Lamar Thomas before the 1993 Sugar Bowl, followed by George Teague’s answer:
Alabama's Peyton Steele hit a two-run home run in the top of the eighth inning to put the Crimson Tide ahead 3-2 in a midweek win over Samford.
REAL STEELE.@PeytonSteele7 I #RollTide pic.twitter.com/s8KWXHcxcE
— Alabama Baseball (@AlabamaBSB) February 18, 2026
Stop us if you've heard this before...
— Alabama Track & Field (@AlabamaTrack) February 17, 2026
Doris is your @SEC Women's Co-Runner of the Week!
The award is the fourth consecutive weekly conference honor earned by @UA_Athletics this season
https://t.co/zOd6N3tgT4#RollTide pic.twitter.com/KsAnEXtWIR
Alabama gymnast Azaraya Ra-Akbar was selected as the Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Week after raising her career high vault score to 9.975 and adding a 9.950 on the uneven bars and a 9.900 on the floor. Its her second award by the league office this season and she scored the highest freshman vault and tied for the top freshman bars score this week.
That’s our freshman! pic.twitter.com/mYRK09hijW
— Alabama Gymnastics (@BamaGymnastics) February 17, 2026
199 days
February 18, 1966: Brice Building won the contract to expand Denny Stadium to 56,000 seats by September 1. The cost of adding the 13,000 seats and modernizing the stadium was $1,044,763.
February 18, 1971: George Teague was born in Oscoda, Mich.
“Alabama’s cornerbacks don’t impress me one bit. They’re overrated. Real men don’t play zone defense and we’ll show them a thing or two come January 1st.”Lamar Thomas
Miami wide receiver Lamar Thomas before the 1993 Sugar Bowl, followed by George Teague’s answer:
Alabama's Peyton Steele hit a two-run home run in the top of the eighth inning to put the Crimson Tide ahead 3-2 in a midweek win over Samford.
REAL STEELE.@PeytonSteele7 I #RollTide pic.twitter.com/s8KWXHcxcE
— Alabama Baseball (@AlabamaBSB) February 18, 2026
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