Kalen DeBoer negotiating with Alabama

Never follow a legend, follow the person who followed the legend.

Every time I start getting irritated about the crazy amount of portal hopping by players, I remind myself that the most shameless, money-hungry mercenaries in all of college football are the damn coaches.

Seems like a very different formula to win at Alabama compared to Washington. National recruiting, interest from every 5* . . . not that he couldn't do it, but it will be very different from what he's been doing. It seemed his Washington team had a lot of that Michigan culture going for it, and I don't know how you can create that at Alabama.

Yeah baby. I don't want that guy in the BIG10.

This type of guy is incredibly competitive.   They all want to take a shot at a top job.  It works out, or it doesn't.   DeBoer only turns 50 this year.  If Alabama doesn't work out, he still lands a good job elsewhere. 

I'm still not sure that DeBoer and Lanning are all they're hyped up to be. Their offenses looked good, but they both had super old/experienced QBs, and they both played in a conference where almost all the offenses looked good. Maybe they both just needed more time, but I wouldn't feel confident in either one if I were a Bama fan. 

There's a career retrospective on the youtube about DeBoer, starting in Sioux Falls as a WR, then becoming HC after 4 years on the staff, winning 3 of 4 NAIA titles, and then going up from there. He's an uber talented coach, but it's still amazing to see him on this upward ascent. Like Beilein on steroids.

Strike while the skillet's hot, I guess.  Does seem like a thankless job because it's like OSU on steroids.  Just sky high expectations at a place where even the last guy was starting to run out of steam maintaining it.

if you are too young to remember look up what happened to Bama when they hired the last coach Michigan beat for a national title Mike Price.

Does College Football need a Rooney Rule?

This should make that trip to Seattle next season considerably easier. 

I'd like to see what DeBoer did post Penix because I'm in the camp that his success was due to Penix.  

I'm sure he is a good coach but I need a larger sample size of QBs.

Fox Sports and CBS are indicating DeBoer has accepted the head coaching position at Bama.

He seems like a goof guy - and I wish him well…

Kind of a coincidence , Last time Michigan won the national championship "over a Washington school," their HC left for Alabama a few years later. 

Coach on the rise for sure but I don't think Alabama fans will be happy. 100% of his career FBS success has been with either Michael Penix or Jake Haener. He does not have the sample size. He feasted on a good but not imposing Pac 12 schedule, lucked out once against Oregon, and had to hold on for dear life to beat Texas. This is a huge risk. It might work out. But I'm gonna say 8-4 / 9-3 will be Alabama's reality in a few years.

only 7 years removed from EMU

Hey you guys, we beat the last two Alabama coaches in a row.

I actually think this reeks of recency bias.   I love the hire… but only because it’s time for Alabama to take a long nap. 

A shame for Washington really. There probably aren’t that many gigs he would have left for but this is clearly one. If there wasn’t an opening like this perhaps he stays and finds success for five more years by which time he’s firmly established them as the next power (ie. Clemson or Oregon or early 90s Washington) and stays until he retires. 

Man, Harbaugh dismissed Mork, then broke Cryin Day, then in two weeks he broke Saban and Deboer? 

The posters on UDub's message board are every bit as crazy as those on RCMB and 11W. Some are convinced that the reason they lost Monday night was that DeBoer was distracted because he was already negotiating with Bama before the game.