Alabama and star general manager Courtney Morgan have reached an agreement on a historic new arrangement that will shake up the NCAA front office and personnel landscape.
According to 247Sports and CBS Sports, Morgan and the Crimson Tide have reached an agreement on a new three-year contract worth roughly $825,000 per year.
Morgan was being considered by USC for the position of football president, but he chose to stay with Kalen Deboer and Alabama instead. Morgan has helped the Crimson Tide secure the second-best 2025 recruiting class in the 247Sports team rankings. Morgan previously served as DeBoer’s general manager at Washington, where he guided the Huskies to the national championship game last season. Morgan previously worked at his alma institution, Michigan, as well as Fresno State, under DeBoer.
“Courtney is such an important part of our program,” DeBoer stated after hiring Morgan at Alabama. “He has excellent ties across the country and is critical to assisting us in recruiting and evaluating talent at the high school level as well as through the transfer site. Courtney is a critical part of what we are trying to do at Alabama, and I am thrilled to be able to bring him to Tuscaloosa.”
College football recruiting is a zero-sum game, with only a limited amount of blue-chip talent available, and for every team that surges on the recruiting trail — such as Tennessee, which recently secured one of its biggest recruiting victories to date with a commitment from five-star tackle David Sanders Jr. — there is a team that falls short. Concerns about talent acquisition abound for schools that have yet to pick up the pace in the cycle or have valuable commitments on the verge of being lost, but the level of concern that their situations deserve varies.
Fans in Colorado, North Carolina, South Carolina, Notre Dame, and Florida have reason to be concerned about their teams’ performance on the trail this year. The Tar Heels, Gamecocks, and Gators all have uncertain futures on the field, while the Fighting Irish’s top commit is far from committed to the program, and the Buffaloes continue to do things their own way.
Bud Elliott of 247Sports measured the panic meter for each of those schools and decided on The College Football Recruiting Show whether they should proceed with patience or fear.
