Ever since Kalen DeBoer was hired as a Division I football coach, Ryan Grubb has consistently been his quarterback guy.

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.

Ryan Grubb, DeBoer's former offensive coordinator at Sioux Falls, Fresno State and Washington, is joining the Alabama staff as offensive coordinator.