We can get mad at DeBoer but Ballou is why the program is falling.

There's really no reason to defend Ballou. Early in the season, people tried to say "Yes, the team is soft, but look at how healthy the team stays." That take didn't really hold up to scrutiny if you looked at injuries from prior years under Ballou, but it really looks comical this year.

People get taken in by his talk about sports science. You tell people you're an expert and using a cutting edge system and most are unable to question that. But his brand of sports science relies entirely on data derived from a statistical method called magnitude based inference. People like Ballou reach all of their conclusions based on data derived from MBI, but when tested, MBI is fraught with false positives. Here's an article in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise demonstrating that MBI has an error rate up to six times higher than standard null hypothesis testing: LINK

Of course, you don't have to read or understand any of that to see that Ballou's methods aren't working. You can just look at the huge dropoff in development we've seen this decade, the way Alabama is visibly weaker than every power conference team they face, and the lengthy weekly injury reports.