re: Coach DeBoer is light years ahead of hiring Ray Perkins.

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Yeah…my point is… that is the last time we replaced the goat so we are ahead of the game, haha!!

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For sure.....I mean if you look around the spectrum of college coaches there is very few to choose from and we weren't going to go the elevated coordinator route. Really, only two coaches can make an arguable claim to be better than CKD and that's Kirby and Dabo. Kirby isn't going anywhere and Dabo seems to have lost the plot as he is slow to embrace NIL and the portal and lost 4 games in the weak ACC and his seat is getting a bit warm. Kiffin was a non-starter. Who else out there was a better hire? CKD just wiped the floor with Sark and Lanning.

People are freaking out but Byrne did a great job here. These things are always a bit of a crap shoot. We knew we would get a lot better when they hired Saban but he had basically failed up in the NFL and 2007 was pretty rough before he turned it around. DeBoer is stepping into a much better situation and seems like he will have Saban to help guide him for a year. So I am optimistic as possible about our future. The success we had was unprecedented.