Out with the polygraph and in with the newfangled fraud detector.
It is far too soon to tell whether Kalen DeBoer is going to be a good enough football coach for Alabama, but he’s going to do wonders for the state’s diamond-producing industry. Every Saturday in the fall under DeBoer’s watch, there are going to be enough clenched fists, jaws and other orifices within a 300-mile radius of Tuscaloosa to make De Beers consider a rebrand.
That’s just how DeBoer rolls. It’s always going to be a high-wire act. Through five games as Nick Saban’s replacement, we are seeing all the same stuff – good and bad – that we saw from DeBoer’s teams at Washington.
Bold playcalling that borders on reckless at times. Receivers making video game plays down the field. Defense that is often, um, questionable. And games that resemble the last few laps of the Indy 500 when everyone is exhausted and the drivers just throw all strategy out the window and start passing each other, hoping that they end up in front when the finish line comes.
DeBoer won eight football games that way last year at Washington, and it often didn’t matter how good or bad the competition was. But it was enough to get the Huskies to the national championship game, which earned DeBoer an offer to replace Saban at college football’s preeminent program. ...
But there’s a little thing called regression to the mean, and it hits like a bout of food poisoning that gets you out of bed in the middle of the night and makes you never want to eat another meal in your life.
When you live as dangerously as DeBoer has done at both Washington and Alabama, you will eventually end up bent over a toilet. For Alabama fans who don’t remember much before Saban arrived in 2007, violent puking might even be preferable to what they watched Saturday in a 40-35 loss to Vanderbilt. Rest of article.
Welcome to the Les Miles era, Gump-style, where you play to the level of competition no matter how good or bad it is. Domination? That is so January 2024. Oh wait, at least Miles had killers on his teams even when the offense was stuffy and predictable. Hopefully Deboer will right the ship as he just needs to get his players in there.
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Kirk is correct, this wasn't their best work. I'm surprised they didn't make a jab at Kirby Dumb.
Just here to roll out the red carpet for the one fun-hater who's going to show up talking about how not funny all of these are.
No shot at LSU rushing the field against Ole Miss? Those arrogant bastards(WOAM's) probably appreciate that as much or more than an actual win in Death Valley. They are the National Champs when it comes to moral victories.
Just here to step onto the red carpet and double the number of fun-haters.
If you were keeping score, ole mess flopped 3 times
9:55: Is it really necessary to just make stuff up to feel slighted about? Surely there are enough actual insults floating around out there.
If someone has to flop to prevent the other side from a quick-snap for the purpose of preventing a replay, I say that's fair game.
UMAA - Exceeding expectations yet again
$13million roster and that's what you get? If Ole Miss had a year to win it, it would have been this one. Seems Lane is better at trolling on twitter than winning SEC football games.
Kiffin and Kalen (both west coasters) are no Saban. Supreme talent and great execution mean nothing without discipline. "Players' Coach" is woke speak for "Friend Coach". Saban knew better and produced better. It's on full display.
Used to be that parents shaped their kids, and coaches forged their players and teams....now it's backwards due to a lack of managerial courage and grit needed to do both.
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