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Kalen Deboer faces massive expectations heading into year one as the Alabama head guy · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Alabama officially announces to hire a former South Alabama coach, Kane Womack, as
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  the Tide's new defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach. Also, Arizona announces hiring
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  Missouri athletics director Desri read Francois as the new athletics director. Also, it's
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  set big twelve media days will be in Las Vegas this year July ninth and
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  tenth. How much pressure do you think is really on Calen de boor this
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  year? Well, everybody says it's hard to follow the legend, and if
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  you look, you can look at that one of two ways you can look
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  at it, Oh my gosh, I've got to follow the legend, or
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  Hey, nobody's expecting a whole lot out of me. I think you could
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  kind of creep in the back door and have a really good first year or
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  first two years by having that type of mentality. People aren't expecting a whole
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  lot out of him because they've seen so much out of Nick Saban over the
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  years. I think he's in a really good situation. Suation I think it
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  is. What would you think if I told you beav Alabama's going to go
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  eight and four this year eight and four, they're going to slip to eight
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  and four? Would that? Would that sound alarm bells in tuscalosim? Absolutely?
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  I mean there's no question about it. If an Alabama team loses four
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  games after having the the decade that they've had, yeah, it's going to
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  always sound the alarm bells. But I almost think that people expect that right
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  now. They think the world is ending because Nick Saban's not going to be
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  there. I think the Boor is a very good college football coach. Oh
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  there's no doubt that he is a heck of a coach. But you get
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  off into the transfer portal churn. You know, twenty five twenty six guys
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  this cycle, twenty two to twenty three guys last cycle, and they did
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  not replace half of those guys. The NFL attrition, the questions on the
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  coach staff. Also when you talk about the you know, what is he
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  gonna do with with Jalen mill Row? Now? I think Nick Saban and
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  that staff did a great job with him last year. Is the Boor going
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  to adapt his system to what he does or will he expect him to?
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  So there's a lot of questions, and then your guy Kirby Smart. That's
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  his first SEC ballgame in Tuscaloosa, you know, three four weeks into the
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  season, you know, Kirby is. I could see that where Kirby's like,
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  Yeah, we're going to welcome this guy to the SEC you know where.
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  I don't know that Georgia will need any motivation for that now. They
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  won't have any motivation, even especially after getting beat and knocked out of the
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  playoff by Alabama this past year. But I think the boor better adapt to
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  his personnel rather than trying to make his personnel adapt to him. Because Jaln
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  Milroe finished with a boom. I mean, he had a great ending to
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  last year and he showed that he can throw the football. He can obviously
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  do it with his feet as well, but I understand the board just spread
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  it out five wide and threw it all over the field at Washington. I
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  don't think that he's going to be able to do that at Alabama, not
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  against SEC defenses that can pin their ears back and they can blitz from all
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  different angles and their quarterback will be laid on his back if they do that
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  in the SEC