In early 2016, Alabama head football coach Nick Saban called former Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen for a job reference.
Saban asked what Friedgen thought of Mike Locksley, a former assistant coach under Friedgen from 2001-2003 whom Saban was considering hiring as an offensive analyst.
"I told him he did a very good job for me and I told him he was a very good recruiter," Friedgen said on Glenn Clark Radio Aug. 1. "The question Nick asked me was, 'How does he relate to the kids?' I said, 'You won't find anyone better than that.'"
