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Hard to overstate how unprepared DeBoer is for the job he just took
Geevis_and_Butthead
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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?
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
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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They could (hopefully) drop 5 next year.
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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. -
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Guys from west coast/north are generally well received and succeed quite well in the south…..
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Replacing Saban would be brutal if former Tide DC and two-time National Champion Kirby Smart had taken the job.AtomicDawg 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 landed roster in years. Good luck.
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 -
Think this silver-tongued snake is lieing in wait?
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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. -
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!RaceBannon said: -
Alabama has had 2 huge advantages the last 15 years
1) being one of the best bag man / everyone gets a Hellcat schools in the biz, in a world in which many schools such as UW did not participate for one reason or another
2) Saban
Advantage #1 was pretty much destroyed by NIL, however they still had a competitive advantage in Saban which allowed the “Saban discount”, that competitive advantage is now gone too and Alabama’s rich alums are not any richer than the rich alums of any other big school, and the other SEC NIL collectives smell blood in the water. They will still be competitive (hopefully after DeBoer gets pilloried by them for not being as good as Saban), but the days of Alabama dominance are over. -
wooderson92 said:
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!RaceBannon said:
True, and true.HuskyJW said:Guys from west coast/north are generally well received and succeed quite well in the south…..
