Longtime Alabama football strength coach Scott Cochran broke out a megaphone to begin the famed fourth quarter program at his new job.

The Scott Cochran, the well-known former strength and conditioning guru for Nick Saban's Alabama dynasty, is adding former Crimson Tide star Damion Square to his inaugural West Alabama staff.

Scott Cochran, once the most famous strength and conditioning coach in college football as Nick Saban's right-hand man, is back in college football as a head coach. Cochran, who most recently was on Georgia's 2023 staff,

Scott Cochran might not have been coaching for the past year, but he remained hard at work. The longtime Alabama football strength and conditioning coach has been helping start the non-profit American Addiction Recovery Association.

Scott Cochran is back in college football, taking the head coaching position at West Alabama after stints with LSU, Alabama and Georgia.

West Alabama hired Scott Cochran, a longtime SEC staff member who served as Alabama's strength coach under Nick Saban and later spoke out about his addiction to painkillers, as its new coach.

Scott Cochran had the coaching itch. As the 2024 season came to an end, the longtime Alabama football strength and conditioning coach, Nick Saban’s right-hand man, knew he wanted to get back in the game. The calls began coming in, most of them for strength or special teams jobs, just like he’d held for most of his career in college football.

As he transitions to his first head coaching role at West Alabama, Cochran said the lessons he learned from his transition from Alabama to Georgia still apply.