re: Sayin tidbit from Watts

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There was NO other coach available that Bama could get to replace Saban. The closest is Kirby and he hasn’t arrived there yet and is not leaving his Alma mater to coach anywhere else.

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Kirby is a good coach, though IMO overrated, and he is a better recruiter thus far but DeBoer is twice the strategist, tactician, and game-day coach that Kirby is. He's also a better offensive talent evaluator.

For those who wanted Kiffin: He's 2-19 vs ranked teams at UT, USC and OM, DeBoer is 12-2 at Fresno (2-1) and Wash (10-1), including 2-0 vs Riley, 3-0 vs Lanning and 2-0 vs Sarkisian. He had half the raw talent in those 7 games. He's been a HC for 9 full seasons, his teams have won 10+ games every year. It was rinky dink NAIA, but he won 3 NCs in 5 years at a school that had one in their history in 1996. He was 58-1 his last 4 years for a total of 69-3.

Fresno was 4-8 the year before he arrived, he went 3-3 in a Covid year and 10-3 the next year, putting his QB in the NFL. He was 11-2 and 14-1 at Wash, beating Texas/Sarkisian in both post seasons, his QB will be a top 10 pick. They were 4-8 the year before he took over.

He won a bunch of close games, maybe he's a fraud, but he won almost all of them. It's hard to be lucky that often.