Is Alabama's new coach walking into the toughest job in the history of sports?
It takes a particular type of person to leave a perfectly great coaching gig in Washington and move to the Deep South to follow in the footsteps of Nick Saban at the University of Alabama.
It’s nothing against DeBoer, who by all accounts seems like a perfectly adjusted human being, but just look at history.Enter your email to subscribe to Joe’s weekly newsletter, Sports Happy Hour: This is the season everything changes for the sport of college football, for good or ill. A 12-team playoff is here. Texas and Oklahoma are in the SEC. Players are getting paid to leave, paid to stay but, according to the NCAA, still not getting paid to play. At the conference level, what used to be the Power 5 is now down to the Awkward 4.
Kirby Smart, who was an assistant for Saban at Alabama, is now considered to be the new best coach in college football. Smart’s Georgia is the preseason’s No.1-ranked team. Did someone forget to tell DeBoer that Smart went 1-5 against Saban? DeBoer is the same age as Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin. They’re both 49 years old. Here’s my advice to Alabama’s new coach. Never lose three games in a season and never lose to Kiffin.When Curry lost to Ole Miss, someone threw a brick through his office window**. DeBoer could win the SEC and then lose to Kiffin in the playoffs and people would call for his job.
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