Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel, senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger and Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde discuss the pressure facing the Crimson Tide head coach as he readies for his first game against the vaunted SEC rivals. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on , , or
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Let’s talk about realigning the SEC coaches Alabama.
Number four hosts, number two, Georgia Saturday night, Tuscaloosa Alabama, Georgia is a 1.5 point favorite.
All eyes on Klin De Boer, New Alabama coach.
And this is what makes it very interesting to me this specific game being the the opener.
So Kayla de Boer is suc succeeding the succeeding the legend Nick Saban and that is always a tricky thing and he comes in and you gotta Kayla De Boer has to do things Kaylin DeVos way because you know why very successful Kayla Nao is a hell of a football coach and he has runs a hell of a football program, but he’s gonna do things a little differently than Nick Saban, but he has to try to show everybody who’s watching that post Saban ps post Saban is going to work.
Fascinating.
Can’t wait, gonna be there.
This yes.
Is it gets real for Ken de Boer now.
Uh because out of all Nick Saban’s incredible accomplishments to me, probably at least maybe the most impressive is to completely own Georgia at a time when Georgia has been phenomenal.
Uh Saban was eight and two against Georgia five and one against Kirby Smart and their games were all extremely consequential and they’ve met Kirby has, at times coached, like he’s staring at a ghost when Saban was on the other sideline.
We’ll see if he gets a little more relaxed when Saban is not over there in Tuscaloosa on Saturday.
I remember talking to somebody when, um, Alabama upset Georgia in the SEC championship game this last year and it was, this was after Nick Saban had retired, announced his retirement.
And the person actually seriously thought that Nick Saban would have not retired, had he lost to Kirby?
Now, take it for, for what it’s worth.
But he literally, this person really thought that, that if he had lost to Kirby in that SEC championship game that he would have come back.
Um, so there is something and I think it’s pretty public between those two people.
