Kalen DeBoer higher flip issues round shortly in Tuscaloosa.
The Alabama coach's future is in query already after the Crimson Tide began his second season with a deafening thud, shedding 31-17 to a Florida State staff that went 2-10 a yr in the past.
It was an inauspicious begin for DeBoer with Nick Saban's huge shadow looming over him after the legendary coach retired 18 months in the past.
“If Nick Saban watched this tape again, he would kick a few of these children off the staff, that's how dangerous it was,” ESPN's Dan Orlovsky said Monday morning on “Get Up.”
“Alabama's drawback was their controllables. You watch this protection run to the ball and you're like, the place is that this effort to the ball, the angles to the ball, the tackling to the ball. “
Florida State scored 24 straight factors after Alabama scored on its opening drive, and remained in management all through the sport.
DeBoer was employed by Alabama by after main Washington to the nationwide title sport. However Alabama went 9-3 final season, and missed out on the expanded playoffs with a late-season loss to an underwhelming Oklahoma staff. Alabama adopted that up by shedding to Michigan within the Reliaquest Bowl.
Such a season is perhaps acceptable in some locations, however not Alabama after Saban led them to 6 nationwide titles in 20 years.
“It's not a expertise situation, it's a controllables situation,” Orlovsky mentioned. “I feel it's honest to say, can Kalen DeBoer survive September?… Whenever you watch this tape they appear to be a shell of what Nick Saban had constructed them to turn out to be. In terms of effort and toughness and need. They appear to be a shell of it.”
There have been whispers — most notably by his former QB Greg McElroy — that Saban, 73, could be prepared to return to teach, nonetheless he has denied that.
Saban at the moment works on ESPN's “Faculty Gameday.”
DeBoer will lead the Crimson Tide towards Louisiana-Monroe and Wisconsin earlier than an early-season SEC showdown with Georgia.
