I said this after I finally posted about the game last night … I probably should have waited until the anger dissipates more because some people are talking craziness from the sheer embarrassment of what happened, but then I’d probably be holding off until August 2030 … and I am putting it in a thread of its own.

On the surface this looks like a successful season and Jimmy Sexton, the most powerful man in football, is going to take that to Greg Byrne and seek a contract extension for DeBoer. Byrne must say no.

I am not for firing DeBoer right now. That’s lunacy and will set the program back ages.

I’m on the record here as saying the No. 1 priorities for 2026 have to be getting a decent group of running backs who belong on an SEC roster and an offensive line capable of blocking for them and for our quarterback who has to be someone who doesn’t hyperventilate and levitate when he has to throw the ball downfield.

People are now screaming that Byrne is DeBoer’s boss and should order him to do that along with firing assistant coaches. Funny, I need to find the post where someone flamed my arse to cinders and I got downvoted to hell for saying that, was told the AD has no business meddling with a coach’s operations. I guess 38-3 changes that,

The whole “soft” thing started with late Saban. He’d moved away from root hog, make their arse quit football because he saw where the game was headed, and some fans still haven’t gotten over that. The whole cultural thing is what it is, there’s no fixing that for some people who still see football as a front in the Civil War. The whole Saban tree thing, I saw the damage looking for someone from the Bryant tree did 30 and 40 years ago, I’m not in favor of making that a prerequisite.

DeBoer also was not handed the keys to a Ferrari, if he was it was a Ferrari in need of a valve job, because I can go back and get the threads from 2023 and show the panic and frustration with that team here because we weren’t dominating, we were pulling it out of our asses quite regularly and needed an abject miracle at Auburn to stay alive. Saban worked sorcery with that team then got out of Dodge because he knew he couldn’t get it up again.

But whatever kind of car DeBoer was handed, and whatever good he’s done over the last two years … and he has done some … it was all erased yesterday. Some people might say that is unfair, it’s reality in the pool he willingly dived into when he took this job.

I don’t know if it was shock or what, but with his post-game comments it’s obvious he doesn’t understand the gravity of what yesterday meant.

It was not acceptable. Period. The score, the complete lack of execution, everything. All the gum flapping here about why is white noise. IT WAS UNACCEPTABLE. Period. Mic drop. The end.

When Sexton pushes the extension, he should be told that without further discussion.

Then this can go two ways. DeBoer can be a man and accept the challenge and get this fixed and earn an extension. Or Sexton can start shopping him around, probably to an NFL team which might in the long run be the best environment for him.

If that happens and he walks, then so be it, it will be an ouch but will be less destructive portal wise IMO than if we can him right now.