Finebaum: Kalen DeBoer on ‘scorching hot seat,’ as Tide performance ‘horrifying’

I’m gonna always point and laugh at Bama’s pain, since they beat up on all of us for so long.

But this is dumb.
He’s a first year coach taking over for the best coach of all time. You really want to fire him and send your program into oblivion for a few years? Seems so stupid.

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Finebaum: Kalen DeBoer on ‘scorching hot seat,’ as Tide performance ‘horrifying’

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Finebaum's entire fanbase these days are fans hoping to catch the next "the end is near" story about Alabama.

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But this is dumb.
He’s a first year coach taking over for the best coach of all time. You really want to fire him and send your program into oblivion for a few years? Seems so stupid.

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Dumb people don't care, they just want to hear the things they want to believe.

I witnessed it 1st hand on the Alabama forum here 5 years ago. Crimson Bozo would post obviously fake insider information that could be proven false without any inside information. And despite people knowing what he was saying was false, they still believed and literally got pissed off that someone would debunk him.

All because they desperately wanted to believe Golding was going to be fired.

People will eat this shite up for the same reasons.

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Finebaum's entire fanbase these days are fans hoping to catch the next "the end is near" story about Alabama.

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He's the fox news of sports talking heads.

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He took over a loaded roster, certainly one that shouldn’t have lost 4 games. Les Miles was autistic and won the division and had a top 5 finish when he took over Saban’s previous program. He also had to deal with two Hurricanes displacing players and games his first month on the job. Deboer should feel some heat, first year or not. Losing to 3 average to bad teams doesn’t help his case either.

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You're just ate up lately.

Our QB room isn't good, we've had 4 OC in the past 5 years, and we lost our best QB recruit when Saban retired. Milroe was never supposed to the starter really, he was scout team material the same way Blake Sims was.

The same team/QB that needed 4th an 31 to beat Auburn last year.

Additionally we're in the process of changing both our offensive and defensive schemes and had to play the aforementioned QB who is NOT a fit in his scheme. If you think Alabama is going to be running the same offense in the future, you are gravely mistaken.

Furthermore, Alabama would have won the west if it existed this year as well. At worse it's a split title with Ole Miss since we didn't play them. 2 losses to SEC East teams, and assuming Oklahoma is a west team they have more losses. LSU isn't going to win it with their 3 losses and h2h loss, which leaves an Ole Miss team Alabama didn't play, but also has 3 losses one of which was a SEC west loss to LSU.

Anyone who thinks he's on the hot seat is an idiot and Finebaum as usual is just profiting from the ignorance of others.

I do think it's pretty telling that an Alabama coach is judged more harshly in his first year for having 4 losses while an LSU coach is praised for not only having 4 losses, but also getting embarassed @ home to that first year coach.

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Stidham8

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Kalen DeBoer

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You go to bed at night thinking about Alabama football don’t you?

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Why would you assume Oklahoma in the West and not Texas?

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Just because Alabama, Ole Miss and LSU played Oklahoma rather than Texas.

It's all kind of silly to start with since the guy is comparing an accomplishment that isn't even possible now, but that's the closest you can do as far as I can see.

This was so predictable in a lot of ways.

Never be the guy who replaces The Guy.

DeBoer is a good coach with an overall track record to back that up but there was almost a 99% chance of a letdown coming at Alabama for anyone after the remarkable run of Saban.

Fans get accustomed to expectations and even base level expectations can be wild at a place that has won so much the past coupla decades.

DeBoer would’ve been better served staying at Washington and continuing to build where he was on his way already to being The Guy there.

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I do think it's pretty telling that an Alabama coach is judged more harshly in his first year for having 4 losses while an LSU coach is praised for not only having 4 losses, but also getting embarassed @ home to that first year coach.

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Who’s praising Kelly? Certainly not the majority of this board. Go read tiger droppings if you want to see the homer takes. Must aren’t pleased with him over there either. But if it makes you feel better to manufacture hypocrisy, knock yourself out. Kelly also didn’t take over the Alabama program. Alabama was in a lot better shape than LSU. Both coaches should feel heat right now regardless and it’s not out of bounds to call a spade a spade.