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Analyst explains three strikes against Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer after Crimson Tide’s 6-2 start to college football season | Sporting News

One analyst recognized three strikes against Kalen DeBoer's record as Alabama's head coach.

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Most teams with a first-year head coach would be thrilled with a 6-2 start to the season. The Crimson Tide are not most teams, though, and Kalen DeBoer’s two losses in his first eight games as Alabama’s head coach have many on the verge of shoveling the dirt on the 2024 season in Tuscaloosa.

USA Today’s Blake Toppmeyer is one of them, and he listed three momentum-stalling developments the Crimson Tide have faced this season: Jalen Milroe’s regression, the defense and special teams being undisciplined, and the offensive line and defense being excessively penalty-heavy.

“After Alabama lost to Tennessee, I grabbed the shovel and prepared to start scooping dirt on the idea of the Tide as a playoff team. It wasn’t just that the Vols beat the Tide 24-17. It’s how they lost,” Toppmeyer prefaced before saying, “All slop, no sizzle.

“Quarterback Jalen Milroe, a Heisman contender after September, regressed into a slump. Alabama played as undisciplined as ever and became a walking, talking penalty.”

DeBoer would deny all three of those things, though. He already publicly denied the “undisciplined” accusation.

Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer doesn’t want to hear his Crimson Tide players called undisciplined​

DeBoer responded to the undisciplined accusation with a lengthy rant defending his players following the Crimson Tide’s 34-0 shutout of Missouri.

“I think there’s discipline in a lot of areas,” DeBoer said. “There’s discipline off the field, discipline with the things that happen around the program each day. Discipline with your schedule in the classroom. Staying on top of things. Then there’s the discipline on the football field.

“I can tell you our team has an extremely high level of discipline in a lot of those ways I’m mentioning. There have been a lot of times where sometimes our awareness or just understanding of emotional discipline at times as well just has been something we haven’t been as sharp as we need to be with. I think we’ve gotten extremely better. But there’s penalties still being called and things that are happening that we’ve got to continue to improve on.”

DeBoer’s words mean little. If Alabama can’t clean up their act and win out this season, his first year in Tuscaloosa will be seen as a bust.

 

[TerryP]

Context for a thought on a Saturday morning...

Here's an article, written by a guy that lives in Auburn and writes for an Auburn site, which quotes a guy who writes for the paper in Knoxville and covers Tennessee...about Alabama.

 

[mando]

Context for a thought on a Saturday morning...

Here's an article, written by a guy that lives in Auburn and writes for an Auburn site, which quotes a guy who writes for the paper in Knoxville and covers Tennessee...about Alabama.

Everyone wants Bama to be down so this is one of those articles that certainly has some truth in it but there is even more hope for the demise of Bama. These guys only hope has been a CNS retirment and Bama falling short in the post Saban hire. That is where the hope in the article shows up for all other fanbases but even more so for the barner/vile fanbase.

@TerryP you know I have been down on things this year but honestely I have not been surprised. Maybe a little surprised with some things but not surprised overall. I do believe this is a first year thing and these other fanbases are going to be very dissappointed in the end.

 

[alabama mike]

This is what almost all of us have gripped about all year. Tell me something we did not already know.

“USA Today’s Blake Toppmeyer is one of them, and he listed three momentum-stalling developments the Crimson Tide have faced this season: Jalen Milroe’s regression, the defense and special teams being undisciplined, and the offensive line and defense being excessively penalty-heavy.”

 

[24and7]

CKD inherited an undisciplined team… Saban had more than one reason for pulling up his tent…He was having more and more troubles (some you heard about, some you didn’t)… That comes from recruiting the “big dawgs” on high school campuses..You get a lot of players with big problems to go along with their talent..

 

[MunchyOs]

This article may as well have been written by David Housel himself. The joke is on them. The historical run we had has been over. It ended well before the end of the Saban era. Us no longer being the absolute juggernaut we once were didn't suddenly turn us back into probation ridden Bama of the early to mid 00's and it sure as hell didn't turn them into 2004 auburn. They are STILL a fucking joke

 

[50+yeartidefan]

All true. The criticism on KD. A lot unwarranted

22 players left after NS announced retirement
I think i counted 18-20 starting elsewhere.
Thats would be starters n backup players for a shallow depth team.

Thats what made bama ... bama.
And what kirby now has.

But kd recruiting n using porta. He can get bama right where we expect them