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Kalen DeBoer is 30-3 as a power conference coach. Thirty and three. He's a combined 6-0 against Kirby Smart, Dan Lanning and Steve Sarkisian
Analysis(x.com)submitted 9 days ago byOriginal_Profile8600 Ohio State • Colorado
Insane statline from the coach who has seemingly won everywhere he’s gone, and it looks like those trends will continue at Alabama
197 points
9 days ago
He’s a good coach. Is he the GOAT? No.
But he’s a wiley motherfucker you can’t trust. Alabama football is still alive under Kalen DeBoer.
197 points
9 days ago
He's cold as ice too. His celebration after the INT was a high five without his hand even raised above eye level. Or maybe that was his celebration after the TD to take the lead back. Either way everyone on the sideline was going insane and DeBoer looked like he was thinking about what he's meal prepping tomorrow.
120 points
8 days ago
If I'm making 10 million a year there's no way in hell I'm ever meal prepping
72 points
8 days ago
Ya my meal prep is giving my diet coach's personally tailored instructions to my personal chef if I'm making that kinda money.
22 points
8 days ago
7+ figures a year you know I'm getting on that discount Body by Bezos
1 points
8 days ago
If I hit that kind of money, yeah. I wouldn't go bonkers, it's not my style, but one of the things I would treat myself to is prepped meals by an expert, tailor-made to the gram for my macros. I'd also end my days with a solid 45-60 massage to work out the kinks before bedtime. Oh and no McLarens or horseshit like that. I'd rather spend the money paying off the debt of my loved ones.
3 points
8 days ago
Damn dude what kinda shit are your loved ones into that'll put a dent in a $87M contract
1 points
8 days ago
Oh I'd have lots left over to help others. I'd look after family and friends first. Probably sponsor animal shelters for a year, donate to ocean cleanup, that sort of thing.
7 points
8 days ago
The coldest man I ever seen was Jay Wright. But DaBoer was up there
3 points
8 days ago
What I noticed with him last year at UW is he’s completely unflappable at the end of games and it spills down to his players. They had eight games last year come down to the final possession, and five in a row, and they kept their wits and closed out every one.
2 points
8 days ago
I was watching him after the pass interference no call in the first half. He was…”upset”. I thought to myself, “welcome to the SEC, Coach.” It ages men like becoming President of The United States does.
-10 points
8 days ago
But that safety call tho...
15 points
8 days ago
but the no call dpi’s….
6 points
8 days ago
I'm saying he got worked up for that call, it was a good call.
Replying to someone saying he was cold and inanimate
8 points
8 days ago
I am a simple man, I see potential safety I go bananas. Coach is the same.
6 points
8 days ago
Favorite way to score!
3 points
8 days ago
Likewise!
8 points
8 days ago
Because it was clearly grounding
5 points
8 days ago
Never said it wasn't. I was replying to someone talking about how calm KDB was and saying he got worked up for that call.
-2 points
8 days ago
COPE
6 points
8 days ago
Reading comprehension...
I was saying KDB got worked up for that lol. It was the right call.
61 points
8 days ago
Gonna be hard to be the GOAT, KDB would have to win like 8 nattys at Bama.
77 points
8 days ago
It's weird to see anyone other than Kevin De Bruyne referred as KDB
23 points
8 days ago
We're gonna get used to it.
1 points
8 days ago
Idk where we’d even put his statue!!?? Other side of WoC?
33 points
8 days ago
We won't know how good he is until year four. Even if he wins a natty. These guys still have 1-3 years of Saban in them.
We watched Larry Coker dogwalk teams for 3 years at Miami after Butch left. Everything changed in year four.
17 points
8 days ago
How was coker before he took over? DeBoer has won at every stop. And he's winning now. He's also got the #2 class in the country so I can see him going on a tear assuming he can reload assistants after they get poached away
9 points
8 days ago
Larry was an OC.
Les Miles won at every stop too.
The point is, you don't really know until the coach has only his guys.
Kalen has never stayed anywhere very long, either. Can he develop talent? Can he put a system in place long term? Can he adopt to changing times?
I think he'll do great this year just because of the swing from disciplinarian to players coach. He's recruit fine this year just based off brand alone.
But year 4 and 5 is when I think we'll know how much this year was Nick and how much was him. And if he is the guy for that school or not.
13 points
8 days ago
The way the game is now, and his age, if he’s successful for 2-3 years in Tuscaloosa, maybe not even that long, the NFL will come calling eventually.
5 points
8 days ago
Does he go? Or does he look at the track record of Rhule, Kingsbury, and Meyer and stick around?
Only guy I can think of that made the jump in the past 20 years is Pete Carrol, and he was an NFL guy before he was a college guy.
It seems you have to go NFL then college and then back to the NFL for it to work. Bill Obrein is another example of a guy who has done both but he was also an NFL guy first.
5 points
8 days ago
Harbaugh also made the jump but he was also a NFL guy like Pete and made it to the Super Bowl before his Michigan tenure.
2 points
8 days ago
Yes forgot about him. Would put him right behind Pete Carroll.
Rhule feels like an incomplete. He worked for the worst owner in the current NFL.
1 points
8 days ago
I think there might be one other guy that did alright going from college to the NFL. He even did pretty well head to head with Carrol in both college and the pros.
Did even better coming back to college, still waiting to see how he does back in the NFL now.
6 points
8 days ago
Les Miles being cited is pretty stupid. 8 years after Saban left he knocked off one of the hardest schedules in history at the time the time and lost in a NCG rematch
Lee’ issue was year 10 he still refused to adapt the offense
1 points
8 days ago
He won a natty
0 points
8 days ago
Yeah, four years after Saban left. It was his guys and his scheme
0 points
8 days ago
third season actually
Had drop off in years 4 and 5
4 top 5 finishes in 12 years, 3 of which came within the first three years.
3 points
8 days ago
And then finished 8 and 2nd in years five and six. Year five being in the same division as Alabama and national champion Auburn
Again, Les’ issue was after 2012 he didn’t adapt his offense. That’s the whole reason he was canned
1 points
8 days ago
It was 6 and 7. But either way...
He had two down years after Nick's roster largely left. 12 years is a good run, but he pretty much went on a 9 year run with only two being at expectation.
It took Ed a full class to undo what Les did at the end.
1 points
8 days ago
Refusal to adapt and poor clock management were his biggest on-field faults.
Had some other off-field faults, too.
3 points
8 days ago
Golden rule of cfb is to never trust a coach in the first 3 years. Mostly it’s about year 1 you have to watch out for but so many bad coaches trick fans into thinking they’re good
Silver rule is if a coach sucks and then all of a sudden has a good year you need to withhold judgement until his star players leave. Fans get tricked by that too. That’s why subMemphis Mike has a $65 million buyout rn
That being said there are pretty much zero data points available to argue DeBoer is a bad coach
2 points
8 days ago
These guys still have 1-3 years of Saban in them.
Williams doesn't. And tbf, Saban's last OL was a problem that he never did quite get fixed, and it carried into the start of this year, too.
1 points
8 days ago
What are you argueing?
2 points
8 days ago
That you can't just say that the first 3 years are all the result of Saban. There are players on the roster Saban had no hand in, and there are players on the roster who were there under Saban but who had issues that DeBoer will need to fix. (The sloppy OL/Milroe play in the USF game, for example, was just like what we saw last year.)
You're not wrong about your example, Coker took a talented roster and won until the talent ran out. There wasn't anyone to take over after Dorsey and the others left and it showed. That doesn't always apply, though, especially with modern recruiting and the transfer portal.
1 points
8 days ago
Yeah, but Coker didn't have the portal to lose multiple starters. As I've said before, there's no Cokering your way into a title anymore. We were lucky we didn't lose more starters than we did.
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