It should have screamed volumes to everyone that Saban got out of Dodge …

… after last season rather than “taking control of the situation and being large and in charge and kicking arses and coaching them up,” as to what the limits are to what a coach can do along those lines in an NIL/portal era where players are essentially free agents and a high school kid who’s never played a down in college who’d committed to an SEC school just changed his mind after the fourth richest man in the world opened his checkbook to him for either $10.5 million or $12 million, I’ve seen both figures.

And to those who say “Well, how are Ohio State and Oregon doing it,” they aren’t Alabama, the stuff that has been associated with this job is unique and there’s zero way DeBoer knew what he was getting into because you can’t until it hits you in the face.

And no I don’t have any easy answer to fix it.