re: New Head Coach Thread (Welcome Coach DeBoer)

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I have a friend who’s son is on the team. Already asked for a rundown of meeting

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me big chief me feelin' good. Me gonna do everything me could.

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Me military Warrant Officer. Me speak much better now. Me went to Alabama. Me hunted deer and birds with big chief Bear. My father wigwammed with Mal Moore in college Him played under Bryant in 1960. Me have um good connections.

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That wasn't a native American joke. It was a Professor Longhair and/or Dr John doing lyric about Mardi Gras Indians. Professor Longhair was one of the best New Orleans piano players of all time. Funky as hell. Check out the song Big Chief. It's great

I’ll have to look for it. Thanks!

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Refusing to hire the best candidate over petty nonsense has a real “Pride cometh before the fall” feel to it. Our entitled boosters could be our program’s undoing.

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Unfortunately, Kiffin is foolish and wicked, overrated, and more importantly, he's 2-19 in his career vs ranked teams. He would be a raunchy Freeze-like hire who is incapable of running a big-time quality football program, even more so, the preeminent program in college sports.

I don't know if even Alabama could get him over the hump enough to win a big football game. Almost like him as an OC under a task master (though he has fouled that up) but not as a HC.

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What?! He had penix, a great wr corp, and rb that will most likely be drafted in the NFL.

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He and his staff developed Penix and the great WR corps. They were not highly regarded out of HS. DeBoer was Penix's OC at Indiana, Penix liked him so much that he followed when he got the Wash job.

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Who the frick wanted to come when we were under sanctions?

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Richard Williamson, who was the other end from Bill Battle in the early 60s and had success as a HC at Memphis and failure as an interim HC for NFL's TB. He was Mal Moore's choice. But others overrode him and chose Shula. Neither Shula nor Croom, the 3rd candidate, were remotely qualified to be HCs at the time.

Tom Coughlin, Les Miles and others had expressed interest in the job. TC had publicly stated that he was interested - he had just been fired from Jacksonville.

That no one would take the job has been a myth. The choice of Shula was made by non-football people, except for Ray Perkins, who wanted to exercise control over the program through Shula, who had played for him. Shula sought and heeded Perkins' advice, which ended up being a blessing for Alabama, because it was sometimes stupid, causing Shula to be fired thankfully. He had no business being Alabama's HC. Williamson, Mal's choice, would have been a far superior HC.

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Big losers in this saga.

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You forgot to mention AU and Freeze. They hired CHF to beat Saban. His offenses caused because of misdirection. But though Alabama won't have the talent that they've had under CNS, their schemes or the way they run them or the mental makeup of the personnel will be much less vulnerable to CHF's designs.

Also, IMO, CNS always tightened up a bit in J-H. I would be surprised if CKD will or at least not to the same degree. He specifically focuses on confidence and his teams show it at crunch time. It's one reason why they win so many close games.

He's 12-2 vs ranked teams at the D1 level, in which of his teams were the underdog. He's 7-0 vs Riley (2), Lanning (3) and Sarkisian (2). His second year (first year, the covid year, 3-3) at Fresno, his team went 10-3, beating 2 ranked PAC 12 teams, with a team that was 4-8 the year before he got there.

At his NAIA stop he was 67-3 in 5 years. In his last 4 years he won 3 NCs, going 56-1, the one loss being in the NC game 3 years before he left. This was at a school that had been successful but had won 1 NC in 1996 and has won none since. He was 17-2 in playoff games.