Nick Saban’s right-hand man is leaving Alabama. Ellis Ponder, the UA associate athletics director for strategic operations, ...

Ellis Ponder was in his second season as a student assistant in the equipment room when Nick Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa to ...

Ellis Ponder, Alabama’s associate athletics director for strategic operations who was a key deputy under Nick Saban, is set ...

Prior to arriving at Alabama, Ponder spent just over four years working for the Bruno Event Team in Birmingham. He helped manage a wide array of sporting evets during his time with the Bruno Event ...

Ellis Ponder has been appointed to replace Justin Dickens as Alabama's director of football operations, the university announced Thursday. Ponder, a Fairhope native, worked alongside Dickens the ...