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 ...

Alabama’s football chief operating officer, Ellis Ponder, blew his whistle at Montgomery, hustling the offensive lineman to the locker room. Still, he couldn’t dull the Crimson Tide’s ...

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 ...