re: New Head Coach Thread (Welcome Coach DeBoer)

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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.