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How short is the leash for Kalen DeBoer in the upcoming college football season · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Let me ask you about Alabama, and I want to reference Tennessee as Tennessee
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  has parted ways with their women's basketball coach Kelly Harper after five seasons. As
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  Rosstealers reported to, you know, hard to believe. Has been twelve years
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  since Pat Summit coach our final year at Tennessee, and the Balls advanced to
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  the NCAA Tournament basketball every season since then, six trips to the sweet sixteen.
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  Yet they have fired their last two basketball coaches. Just can't meet those
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  expectations. And I want to take that to Kaitlyn de Boorr. Do you
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  it feels like with all the questions that you're just seeing already floating out,
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  can he handle the expectations? Can he handle this? Can he handle that?
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  And those are questions that he's going to have to answer, you know,
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  every day of his life until he probably wins a national championship if he
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  can do that. But are the expectations potentially that far out of whack?
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  I mean, if they did it with Pat Summit and women's basketball at Tennessee,
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  I can't imagine that Alabama football isn't going to act somewhat the same.
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  I mean, my question is how short is the lead and how do you
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  even define success for Kaitlyn de Bore. I think the first year is obviously
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  that for Burbial honeymoon uh. And I think if it's like really bad,
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  which I don't think it's gonna be, then I think they'd be a little
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  bit of panic in the room, all we got the wrong guy. I
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  think you're gonna hear a lot of that among the masses of Alabama fans.
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  I think if they you know, are and remember, let's you remind everybody
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  make the playoffs and you know when and who knows. I think if they
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  have success, let's say they go nine and three, which is like not
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  good for them, But first year honeymoon period, Oh he's gonna get it
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  gone. You better believe there's gonna be pressure. There's gonna be pressure to
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  oh, do we have the right guy to recruit at the at least level?
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  If he can't recruit with Kirby, he's not gonna beat Kirby. You're
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  gonna hear all those things, and you're gonna start to hear him this year,
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  depending on how successful or not successful he is. But I think the
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  second years's gonna be a lot of pressure. And let's let's remind folks how
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  difficult is it gonna be to not only be the coach at Alabama, but
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  the guy that just left there, the legendary coach. I'm not saying he's
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  gonna be talking about Alabama every week, but he is gonna be on college
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  game day and everyone's gonna be tuned in to all the Alabama What did he
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  say? And you know it's you know what I mean, It's just they're
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  they're gonna pick that apart. There are people that are still more interested in
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  what Nick Saban says in some you know meeting or just some meeting somewhere or
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  wherever, than what Caitlyn de Worr says. So no, it's he's not
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  hovering, but he is hovering and he's there. It's one thing, you
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  know, when Bear Bryant laughed, I mean god rest. So he died
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  before Ray Perkins got there, and it was tough. And now you've got
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  the guy that's gonna be there and OMNI president and I don't know how OMNI
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  president on campus, but got an office on campus. I just think it's
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  gonna be a lot of pressure. Got a good team, got a good
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  program, he's managed to get a couple of late flips of guys that did
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  transfer back in. We're gonna have to wait and see. To me,
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  he's a good coach. Can you recruit and handle this part of the world.
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  That's gonna be the key. And we're gonna see, and we're not
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  gonna know that. I don't think just through this year. It's gonna be
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  in the next recruiting cycle or two