1 year, 2 months ago

Alabama is close to hiring Kalen DeBoer from Washington to replace Nick Saban, AP source says

Alabama is negotiating with Washington coach Kalen DeBoer and is close to hiring him as the replacement for Nick Saban, a person with direct knowledge of the talks said Friday. DeBoer would replace Saban, who announced his retirement Wednesday after leading the Crimson Tide to six national championships in 17 seasons. DeBoer led his alma mater Sioux Falls to a 67-3 record from 2005-09 and won three NAIA championships at the small, Baptist-affiliated school in South Dakota’s largest city. DeBoer coached Heisman Trophy runner-up Michael Penix Jr. last season and brings an offensive track record to replace Saban, a former NFL defensive coordinator.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ryan Grubb rejoins Kalen DeBoer by taking over as Alabama’s offensive coordinator

Associated Press

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Ryan Grubb is reuniting with Kalen DeBoer as Alabama’s offensive coordinator after they worked together to get Washington to a College Football Playoff championship game. “He is one of the best offensive minds in the country, and I can’t wait to see what he brings to our organization moving forward.” Washington’s 2023 team was a victory away …

2 months, 1 week ago

Nick Saban reveals why he would not consider return to coaching college football

Daily Mail

Nick Saban has revealed that the NCAA's NIL policy has turned him off from a potential return to college football, as he said the 'dynamic' of college sports has changed. And Saban, who retired as Alabama's head coach early last year, would prefer an NFL job if he were to return to the sidelines. Nick Saban became a college football …

2 months, 3 weeks ago

For the College Football Playoff’s final four coaches, more than a title is on the line

New York Times

The four head coaches remaining in this year’s College Football Playoff have a lot to gain by winning it all. But only two active head coaches have won a national title at the Football Bowl Subdivision level: Georgia’s Kirby Smart and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney, who each have two. Jeff Hafley left a head coaching job at Boston College to become …

5 months ago

Alabama football schedule: The Tide plays Missouri after two losses. What happened to Nick Saban’s juggernaut?

Slate

When Nick Saban retired from coaching Alabama in January, the university lost not just a football coach but a one-of-a-kind business asset. The Tide lost at Tennessee last Saturday to fall to a humiliating 5–2 in its first seven games, a level of ignominy unknown to the program since 2007, during Saban’s first year. Instead, in its two losses to …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Kalen DeBoer’s Alabama is mortal in a way Nick Saban’s Alabama never was

New York Times

Seconds after quarterback Diego Pavia kneeled to secure Vanderbilt’s first win against Alabama since 1984, Nick Saban appeared on the jumbotron at FirstBank Stadium. NO WAY#Vandy played this quote from Nick Saban after the upset over Alabama: “The only place that’s not hard to play in the SEC is Vanderbilt.” pic.twitter.com/QDfGufSQol — Billy Derrick October 5, 2024 DeBoer took the …

7 months ago

Kalen DeBoer far from only Alabama newcomer to shine in season-opening romp

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The 49-year-old made his Alabama debut in Saturday night’s 63-0 romp over Western Kentucky, replacing a seven-time national champion coach whose shadow still looms large on campus and across college football. The new guys especially enjoying it.” DeBoer wasn’t the only new guy making a huge …

7 months ago

No. 5 Alabama, Jalen Milroe rout Western Kentucky 63-0 in coach Kalen DeBoer’s debut

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! 5 Alabama breezed through Kalen DeBoer’s debut with a 63-0 victory over Western Kentucky Saturday night. Sabb’s debut Sabb proved Alabama’s free safety spot is still in good hands, even after Caleb Downs left for Ohio State following a huge freshman season. Key Takeaway Western Kentucky: …

7 months, 1 week ago

Kalen DeBoer is carving his own early path at Alabama with quiet confidence after replacing Saban

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “I really thought Ryan would go elsewhere,” recalled Kelly, Williams’ coach at Saraland High School in suburban Mobile. “When coach Saban shows up at your campus, it’s kind of like what I would imagine it was back in the day when Elvis would show up,” Kelly …

7 months, 1 week ago

DeBoer era set to begin at Alabama amid typically high expectations for defending SEC champs

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “They’re driving to be great, driven to uphold the standard of Alabama football.” The team should be plenty motivated by how last season ended. His splashiest recruiting win was getting five-star receiver Ryan Williams back into the fold after the two-time Alabama Mr. Football decommitted following …

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Alabama football fan survey results: How has transition from Nick Saban to Kalen DeBoer gone?

New York Times

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — What a difference a year makes. Selection Percentage Very pleased 84.1 Somewhat pleased 11.4 Neutral/Not enough information 3.8 Displeased/Very displeased 0.7 It’s one of the biggest questions in college football : What will Alabama look like in the post-Saban era? Selection Percentage National championship 11.2 National Championship Game appearance 12.9 College Football Playoff semifinal/quarterfinal game appearance 57.6 …

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Kalen DeBoer makes unofficial Alabama coaching debut before big crowd at spring game

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama fans hungry for a return to national-title contention filled Bryant-Denny Stadium for Nick Saban’s first spring game. “Saban’s the type of guy, he built something,” said season-ticket holder Todd Eddleman, a 58-year-old from Cullman who also was at Saban’s first spring game. …

1 year ago

Former Alabama football players thank retired coach Nick Saban for helping them reach NFL combine

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! INDIANAPOLIS — Some Alabama players saw the signs of Nick Saban’s impending departure from college football long before his January retirement announcement. Still, the Crimson Tide players attending this week’s NFL annual scouting combine shared one sentiment: Without Saban’s mentorship, they might not be here — …

1 year, 1 month ago

Alabama’s Kalen DeBoer went from NAIA to the big time. Why don’t more lower-level coaches?

New York Times

Lance Leipold was in Nashville, Tenn., for the 2024 American Football Coaches Association Convention with his wife, Kelly, when he remembered he needed to fire off a text message to an old friend before the handshakes and small talk could make him forget. It was Jan. 7, the first night of the annual gathering, and Kansas’ head coach knew the …

1 year, 1 month ago

Nick Saban Alabama Senate run poll: Democrats should recruit the former coach to beat Tommy Tuberville.

Slate

Nick Saban has no apparent reason to run for political office and several reasons not to. Over two weeks in late January, pollsters from the market research firm YouGov surveyed 532 registered voters in Alabama and found Saban narrowly leading Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, himself a former college football coach at Auburn, in a hypothetical matchup for Senate in 2026. …

1 year, 2 months ago

The rise, fall and rise again of Jim Harbaugh shows how quickly college coaches go from hot to not

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! When Jim Harbaugh took a pay cut from Michigan after the 2020 season, getting another chance to be an NFL head coach seemed like a long shot for him. “Jim Harbaugh didn’t forget how to coach a couple years ago and then say, ‘Oh, I remember …

1 year, 2 months ago

Alabama’s Kalen DeBoer talks Nick Saban, offense, Southern ties and more

New York Times

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Droves of people pressed against the gates, many more behind them doing whatever they could to get a glimpse. Almost immediately for coach DeBoer and Nicole, they saw this as what a wonderful opportunity, and I sensed that.” What will Nick Saban’s role at Alabama be? “I’ll say this: I wasn’t a West Coast guy, either,” DeBoer …

1 year, 2 months ago

DeBoer embraces chance to replace Saban at Alabama, promises ex-coach ‘100 percent access’

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The former Washington coach, hired two days after Saban’s retirement, said he’s giving the 72-year-old ex-coach “100 percent access” to his program — saying he’d “be a fool not to” — and that Saban firmly wants the Crimson Tide’s success to continue. But it wasn’t easy.” …

1 year, 2 months ago

Kalen DeBoer hired to replace Nick Saban at Alabama, leaving national runner-up Washington

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Alabama wasted little time in finding Nick Saban’s successor, hiring Kalen DeBoer away from national runner-up Washington. DeBoer became the first Washington coach to win 11 or more games in consecutive seasons after going 11-2 in 2022, twice earning Pac-12 coach of the year honors The …

1 year, 2 months ago

Alabama hires Washington’s Kalen DeBoer to replace Nick Saban as coach

New York Times

By Christopher Kamrani, Bruce Feldman, Kennington Smith III and Chris Vannini The man chosen to succeed the greatest college football coach in the history of the sport is from rural South Dakota, who certainly some Crimson Tide fanatics have never heard of. Kalen DeBoer, known within the industry as both a program builder and excavator, told his staff at Washington …

1 year, 2 months ago

Washington candidates to replace Kalen DeBoer: Jedd Fisch, Chris Klieman and more

New York Times

Updated Sunday Jan. 14 to reflect that Ryan Grubb is expected to join Kalen DeBoer at Alabama and Kansas coach Lance Leipold has withdrawn from the Washington search. Washington will be on its fourth head coach since 2019, going from Chris Petersen to Jimmy Lake to DeBoer to whomever new athletic director Troy Dannen tabs. As for the Huskies’ coaching …

1 year, 2 months ago

Kalen DeBoer is Alabama’s ideal Nick Saban replacement, but can anything be good enough?

New York Times

Alabama could not have landed a more impressive coach to succeed the retiring Nick Saban than Washington’s Kalen DeBoer, who sports a career 104-12 record dating to his days at NAIA Sioux Falls, and who comes fresh off of leading the Huskies to a 21-game winning streak and a national championship game appearance. In a vacuum, leaving a program like …

1 year, 2 months ago

Replacing Nick Saban: Alabama begins hunt for a successor who will face sky-high expectations

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “The secret sauce for Nick Saban was total control of the program, but he could get that,” ESPN’s Paul Finebaum said Thursday. So the new coach is already challenged, without even knowing who it is, because he won’t have the gravitas that Nick Saban has.” Saban …

1 year, 2 months ago

Column: Saban doesn’t go out on top, but he does leave as the greatest of them all

Associated Press

Nick Saban didn’t go out on top, which is about the only notable blemish on a college coaching resume that eclipsed all others. What turned out to be Saban’s final season — he called it quits Wednesday as Alabama’s coach, on his terms, at age 72 — will go down as perhaps the best coaching job of his career. If …

1 year, 2 months ago

Sports world reacts to Nick Saban announcing he’s retiring as coach of Alabama

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Thanks for helping so many young men reach their goals and dreams #RMFT.” — Dont’a Hightower, former player, consensus All-American at Alabama and two-time national champion ___ “He was on the call and was as adamant about the game of college football as ever. So, ‘Poker …

1 year, 2 months ago

Where does Nick Saban rank on all-time list of coaches? Who’s next at Alabama? Our experts react

New York Times

Well, it finally happened. The one, to me, that best exhibits Saban’s artistry was in 2015 when he brought in a one-loss Alabama team against unbeaten Georgia, which was feeling good about its chances and doing things “the Georgia way.” And Alabama ran all over Georgia, showing the power brokers in Athens how far their program still had to go. …

1 year, 2 months ago

Alabama’s Nick Saban retires after 7 national titles, most in major college football history

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Colorado’s Deion Sanders, a coach who has sought to capitalize on the intervention of players profiting financially from their play on the field, said on social media “College Football just lost the GOAT.” “WOW! College football let’s hold up our mirrors and say HONESTLY what u …

1 year, 2 months ago

Alabama coach Nick Saban retiring after winning 7 national titles, according to multiple reports

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nick Saban, the stern coach …

1 year, 2 months ago

Alabama coach Nick Saban retiring after winning 7 national titles

LA Times

Nick Saban, the stern coach who won seven national championships and turned Alabama back into a national powerhouse that included six of those titles in just 17 seasons, is retiring, according to multiple reports. Saban led the Crimson Tide from a shaky start this season to a Southeastern Conference championship and back into the College Football Playoff before falling to …

1 year, 2 months ago

Updated college football 2024 top 25 rankings: Georgia back on top, Washington slides

LA Times

Nick Saban, the greatest college football coach of all time, has retired from Alabama, where he won six of his seven national championships. I knew there was a reason we waited a bit longer this year to release my 2024 “way-too-early top 25.” With Saban’s exit, nothing will ever be the same in this sport — much less this projection …

1 year, 2 months ago

Mandel: Alabama’s Nick Saban, college football’s greatest coach, is going out on his own terms

New York Times

The thing we’ve been speculating might happen pretty much every year for roughly the last 10 years finally happened Wednesday — and it was still stunning. 1 team in the country in the SEC Championship Game, but falling a win short of the national title game was considered a “down” season for Alabama. To successfully build a national championship contender, …

1 year, 2 months ago

Nick Saban retiring as Alabama coach, ending ‘a truly remarkable’ career with 7 national titles

New York Times

Nick Saban, who is widely considered the greatest college football coach because of his run guiding storied programs against the fiercest possible competition, is retiring after a 17-year stint at Alabama in which he delivered six national championships, he announced Wednesday night. “Hopefully, we have done that, and we will always consider Alabama our home.” His final championship in 2020 …

1 year, 2 months ago

Who could replace Nick Saban at Alabama? Steve Sarkisian, Mike Norvell and other candidates

New York Times

Alabama’s Nick Saban is retiring. Texas’ Steve Sarkisian resurrected his career in Tuscaloosa after off-field issues ended his brief tenure at USC. This season, Sarkisian’s Longhorns went 12-2, beat Bama in Tuscaloosa and made the College Football Playoff. That’s a great compliment to Sark.” I’m told Sarkisian impressed the Tide brass in his time at Alabama. Right, wrong or indifferent, …

1 year, 2 months ago

Alabama football coaching job pluses, minuses and candidates after Nick Saban

New York Times

The job occupied by the greatest coach in college football history is open. The brand is still the brand The Crimson Tide’s national championship and NFL Draft pick totals dwarf everyone else in college football over the last 15 years. Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian spent two stints at Alabama, including one as offensive coordinator from 2020 to ’21, before …

1 year, 3 months ago

How coaching partnership of Washington’s Kalen DeBoer, Ryan Grubb landed Huskies in CFP

New York Times

The night before Washington secured a commitment from one of the most highly sought-after quarterbacks in the NCAA transfer portal, offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb sat in his office talking about the most effective kinds of stain-removing bleach. “When I think of the investment of time, that’s the one piece of currency that is the most valuable with your players,” Grubb …

1 year, 3 months ago

Kalen DeBoer is a South Dakota man through and through. It shows in his work at Washington

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! And I’m glad he did.” DeBoer, who lived his first 35 years in South Dakota, is 49 now and head coach at Washington. “I was still pretty young, and getting a chance to go be challenged at the next level with different people was certainly something …

1 year, 3 months ago

Washington’s Kalen DeBoer is the AP coach of the year after leading undefeated Huskies to the CFP

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! DeBoer was named The Associated Press coach of the year on Tuesday after leading the Huskies to a 13-0 record, the Pac-12 championship and a spot in the College Football Playoff in just his second year in charge at Washington. Just really blessed.” DeBoer received 30 …

1 year, 4 months ago

Column: After a decade of success, Dabo Swinney is suddenly under fire at Clemson

Associated Press

Dabo Swinney is a bit testy these days, which is certainly understandable. And good luck to you,” Swinney angrily lectured a caller identified only as “Tyler from Spartanburg.” While it’s true that a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately mindset is the bane of college athletics, there is no denying that Tyler from Spartanburg was on to something with his critical assessment of Swinney’s once-powerhouse …

2 years, 6 months ago

Kalen DeBoer set for bigger stage as he debuts at Washington

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “That text was, ‘It’s gone really fast, but when you think about how much you’ve done in that time, it’s been a little bit of a grind, too,’” DeBoer recalled. DeBoer has had a long list of tasks to accomplish since November 2021 when he was …

3 years, 7 months ago

Talent in, talent out: Young, No. 1 Alabama still favorites

Associated Press

The bad news for Alabama: The Heisman Trophy-winning receiver and his quarterback are gone, along with the star tailback and Southeastern Conference defensive player of the year. Alabama must replace six first-round NFL draft picks, including receiver DeVonta Smith, quarterback Mac Jones and tailback Najee Harris from one of the nation’s most explosive offenses. The defense didn’t lose nearly as …

4 years, 2 months ago

Nick Saban wins seventh title — and the rest of college football should be terrified

LA Times

Alabama head coach Nick Saban leaves the field after its win against Ohio State in the national championship game in Miami Gardens, Fla. Alabama won 52-24. In 2017, with Kiffin gone and dual-threat Jalen Hurts at quarterback, the Crimson Tide ran a spread-option attack but didn’t often test defenses through the air on the way to Saban’s sixth national championship. …

6 years, 3 months ago

Back in Miami, Nick Saban reflects on unsuccessful NFL stint

Associated Press

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The placard at the interview table identifying Alabama’s coach was unnecessary, because his gestures did the trick. The Alabama bowl media guide summary of Saban’s year-by-year coaching record curiously excludes his stint with the Miami Dolphins, but it happened. “There are million things that go into making it work at Alabama or the Miami Dolphins or …

6 years, 7 months ago

Saban, Bama seek title No. 6 with old challenges, new faces

Associated Press

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama and Nick Saban begin the quest for their sixth national title as college football’s ultimate power couple with many of the same old challenges — and lots of new faces. The quarterback battle between 28-game starter Jalen Hurts and Tua Tagovailoa has hogged the headlines, overshadowing the fact that eight members of the nation’s top defense …

9 years, 2 months ago

Why Nick Saban Is The Greatest Coach In College Football History

Huff Post

With Alabama's victory over Clemson, Nick Saban won his fourth title over the past seven seasons. Christian Petersen/Getty Images Nick Saban's legacy won't be defined by a houndstooth hat, like that of legendary Alabama football coach Bear Bryant. "I don't know how you do what he’s doing," said offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin -- once a controversial Saban hire. Focus On …

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