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Hard to overstate how unprepared DeBoer is for the job he just took

Geevis_and_ButtheadGeevis_and_Butthead Member Posts: 992
edited January 18 in Hardcore Husky Board
Born and raised in small town South Dakota.

Played at an NAIA school.

Coached NAIA ball.

OC at Southern Illinois, Eastern Michigan, Fresno State and perennial Big Ten doormat Indiana.

HFC at Fresno and UW, the latter in a city where — to borrow a line from one of y'all degenerates here — the average sports fan's idea of a good time is "marching in a Sounders parade wearing(?) a butt plug"

Now DeBoer follows arguably inarguably the greatest College Football coach of all time — an icon worshiped by a fan base many times larger and more emotionally invested than UW's in a part of the country where CFB is by far the most widespread obsession.

And this outsider brings along a staff with a similar lack of connections to and/or familiarity with the South -- and one that demonstrated little aptitude or appetite for high-stakes recruiting battles at their previous stop.

Meanwhile, the Alabama program — which got a break in recruiting because of its runaway on-field success and reputation for developing pros (the "Saban discount" they've called it) — has come to a quick realization it's far behind a number of SEC schools in NIL fundraising required to land 4- and 5-star prospects.

Couple that new-found sense of vulnerability with the vast majority of SEC schools eager to even the score against the conference's dominant force ... and it's not hard to see DeBoer stumbling a few times in by far the nation's most competitive conference.

Western Kentucky
South Florida
at Wisconsin
Georgia
at Vanderbilt
South Carolina
at Tennessee
Missouri
at LSU
Mercer
at Oklahoma
Auburn

How might 9-3 or 8-4 go over in Tuscaloosa?
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Comments

  • no_uhno_uh Member Posts: 765
    They could (hopefully) drop 5 next year.
  • HuskyJWHuskyJW Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 14,505 Swaye's Wigwam
    Guys from west coast/north are generally well received and succeed quite well in the south…..
  • Geevis_and_ButtheadGeevis_and_Butthead Member Posts: 992

    He is going to a fanbase that had ppl saying the game had passed Saban by as he won the conference and got into the playoffs with his least landed roster in years. Good luck.

    Replacing Saban would be brutal if former Tide DC and two-time National Champion Kirby Smart had taken the job.

    It won't just be Alabama folks criticizing DeBoer either.

    Those from and rooting for every other SEC school will be piling on unmercifully at each one of DeBoer's inevitable missteps.

    Barring a (continued) string of good fortune he enjoyed at UW, this is "fawn walking into lion's den" type shit
  • HouhuskyHouhusky Member Posts: 5,537
    I want to see the Bama contract and staff contracts...

    Ive seen this in the corporate world and small town politics in the south; Longtime pillar of the community retires, bring in some out of town stooge likely to fail in 1-2 years, stay just off stage noticeable but not too involved, consolidate power and support of the local community off of the out of towners inevitable failures, carefully undermine when you can, in just a year or two the community begs to give you the job.
  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 23,230

    The fucking sad part, and what I continually think about and sob, is that dipshit had cemented his legacy at UW from these last 2 years. Coulda been a golden god and had a couple of aloha and freedom bowl seasons and we still would put up the statue and talk fondly about you 40 years later. FUCK!
    HuskyJW said:

    Guys from west coast/north are generally well received and succeed quite well in the south…..

    True, and true.
  • RTDRTD Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 836 Founders Club

    The fucking sad part, and what I continually think about and sob, is that dipshit had cemented his legacy at UW from these last 2 years. Coulda been a golden god and had a couple of aloha and freedom bowl seasons and we still would put up the statue and talk fondly about you 40 years later. FUCK!
    And Nick Saban still has an office there

    Lambo brought out the purple helmets to separate from James. Didn't work because he didn't win

    And he wasn't an outsider
    Born and raised in WA, but I've lived in the South for three-plus decades.

    Fuck around and lose at Wisconsin and/or take an ass-whipping from UGA at Bryant-Saban Stadium this fall?

    DeBoer has no fucking idea how bad it'll be — and not even Saban will be able to calm the rabid masses
    It's already bad, unless he wins and Natty the wheels are cumin off!

  • Geevis_and_ButtheadGeevis_and_Butthead Member Posts: 992


    Glad they never chose the bright purple helmets that Art Thiel called "Goofy Grape." Absolutely Horrible.

    Husky Helmets must always be gold, period. Anything else is pure Oregon faggotry.

    Oregon faggotry > Art Thiel

  • Sandra6Sandra6 Member Posts: 150
    edited January 18

    He is going to a fanbase that had ppl saying the game had passed Saban by as he won the conference and got into the playoffs with his least talented roster in years. Good luck.

    Bama is not bama. It was Saban. Just like Florida is not Florida , it was urban and the ol ball coach before that.

    About half the schools in the sec can become juggernauts with the right coach. His passing attack and game day coaching is elite. Not sure if that will be enough when they're going to be outbid by other schools in the same conference.

    Bama and Florida’s histories aren’t comparable in any way.
    Yes, but UF, FSU and Miami all love to live under some delusion that they're traditional powers.

    To some extent, Oregon seems to live under that delusion, too.
  • Geevis_and_ButtheadGeevis_and_Butthead Member Posts: 992
    edited January 18
    Sandra6 said:

    He is going to a fanbase that had ppl saying the game had passed Saban by as he won the conference and got into the playoffs with his least talented roster in years. Good luck.

    Bama is not bama. It was Saban. Just like Florida is not Florida , it was urban and the ol ball coach before that.

    About half the schools in the sec can become juggernauts with the right coach. His passing attack and game day coaching is elite. Not sure if that will be enough when they're going to be outbid by other schools in the same conference.

    Bama and Florida’s histories aren’t comparable in any way.
    Yes, but UF, FSU and Miami all love to live under some delusion that they're traditional powers.

    To some extent, Oregon seems to live under that delusion, too.

    The Canes, Gators and Noles have won a combined 11 national championship trophies since the 1980's — or 11 more than reside in Eugene.

    #AllDelusionsAren'tEqual

    Signed,

    Yet another U-Dub/Miami fan at Hardcore Husky
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