@WarWxlf I'm not a bama fan at all. I have seen his out of control players and undisciplined team. He turned sabans office into a verizon store. The standard there is gone. You are in the era of the ME ME ME player. All about money now.
@270eman He is a good coach. Just to have the stones to take the job after nick saban says alot. He will just fine plus alabama had a decent year this past year .
I was talking about the interview, not his record. He was direct and had less coach speak than usual. But 20-8 overall, a CFP appearance, and 7-1 in the SEC last year isn't "destroying" anything. Relax.
😊yes a good coach no doubt just not a championship coach, he's not built for bama or the SEC period but I'm a bama fan through and though but our championship Glory days are gone we are average now bowl game we will appear in instead of a natty
@PoloDro-z4l I hate bama fans like you, you’re just a band wagon fan. I’d like to bet you have no ties to the state nor the university. You also probably have only a very entry level understanding of football. This guy is a top 5 coach. And he will show you and when he does stay on that side, you don’t deserve to root with us
@PoloDro-z4lThe days of 2 or 3 teams dominating and in the natty every year are over. Even if Saban was still there they would probably have the same record. You could see the shift the last couple season he was there. You could be right about KB, I hope not. I feel he will get them a Natty, they just won’t be every other year.
@PoloDro-z4lThat's just straight bs. He went 7-1 in the SEC in the regular and beat both teams he lost to without any semblance of a running game. Some of you aren't realistic in anyway, shape or form. Kalen is an elite coach. Just look at the schools that wanted to hire him this winter and we had idiot fans that wanted him to leave with knowing that there wasn't any coach better on the market.
I love this guy. You can tell he's driven and intense but simultaneously a kind and genuine person. It's why he's recruiting at an elite level, when many said he wouldn't be able to. He finally has the players to fit his system and it won't be long until he's bringing another Natty to T-Town.
I don't know that he was the absolute best possible hire after Saban but he was one of the better ones they could have found. No matter what there was going to be a dip after Saban, there was no preventing that. But last year they were close, the main thing holding them back was how bad the O-line was. It made things tough for the running game which made things really tough for Simpson. If they can figure out that 1 issue a lot of things will fall into place. The defense was very good, other than being weak to the run the first half of the season which they improved on greatly throughout the year.
As UGA fan, all of the past perennials have to manage expectations. The days of repeat titles are over. When top tier players will choose Texas Tech or Illinois or whoever over Bama, UGA, Ohio St, Michigan, etc., it’s just not possible to have the depth to do it like we used to do. Teams like Miami, Indiana, Texas Tech, have an advantage as their schedule doesn’t lend to them losing multiple starters in tough conference games. That’s without even mentioning 7th year QB’s and the like. DeBoer is as good a coach as one could ask for.
I agree to an extent where titles won’t be won as often anymore by the same teams. However, all 3 of the last national championships won by the Big10 were due to having a leg up on the rest of the country in maturity, strength and conditioning due to age. Heck Indianas team was so old they even had a couple 8th year guys. Michigan was old and Harbaugh cheated, OSU was old, Indiana was old, this was largely due to covid players being granted extra unnecessary years of eligibility. There may be another old team or 2 this year and next that’ll win it but most of the covid players are just about fizzled out now. Once they’re all gone we’ll find out who the real coaches are. Harbaugh was praised before he was caught cheating, Ryan Day was praised, problem is neither of them could get it done before their players turned into old men. Same with Indiana Cignetti is being praised for “doing the impossible” by turning a dead program into a national title caliber team within 2 years when we all know that’s not the case at all. His recruiting and transfer additions have been hot garbage and now his team full of old heads are gone so he’s very unlikely to repeat success. Alabama and UGA brands recruit themselves and still out recruits Oregon who spends Nike money, OSU whose head coach is a cry baby always begging for more money, as well as Michigan. My point is long story short, UGA and Alabama may not be able to win chips as much as they did now, but who was winning chips before the old men teams? Kirby Smart. Who was competing for chips before the old men teams? Kalen Deboer. It’ll show in another year or so. It’ll all come back to coaching because the days of covid and 6th, 7th 8th years of eligibility are just about gone
@paulshears5202 “What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
@jameycockrell5481agreed, wish people would realize it’s gonna take a few years. Nobody is Saban. This year will be better I personally believe. It’ll be his players and his scheme totally in place.
@jameycockrell5481I'm willing to give him another year, I just gotta see toughness and grit. Mike Shula gets more criticism than is fair to him though. He took over a program nobody wanted for less money than some coordinators get. Sanctions tied his hands on recruiting and we were in the middle of a bowl ban. He had coaching flaws (at certain critical times had a deer in the headlights look), but he brought stability to a program that was in desperate need for it. For that, he'll always have my respect.
@michaelmccord1317If we’re being honest, the last 3 national championships were won with old men covid players that were granted unnecessary years of eligibility including 6th, 7th, and in Indianas case, 8th year players. Let’s just be real here. Michigan had an old man team when they won it, OSU had an old man team the year before when they won it, and Indiana had an old man team last year. So my question to you, now that the old men covid players are just about fizzled out making it impossible to build such an old team, is, who was winning national titles before the old men covid teams? Kirby Smart and UGA. Who was competing for national championships at that time? Kalen Deboer. So there you have it. We got a good coach at Alabama everything has just been kinda jacked up because of covid. Now that’s about over with we’ll find out who the real coaches are and I’m willing to bet Kalen Deboer is one of those few real coaches. Is he or will he be saban? No. But he’s beaten some who are considered the best. Multiple times actually. It’s not his fault Indiana had a leg up on the rest of the country in age
@michaelmccord1317 does that mean you would’ve rather kept Shula than hire Saban. Shula was just there until they got off probation. He would’ve never won a natty even when they were off probation
I think a lot of times fans forget how hard it is to even make the playoffs let alone win a game there. To do this in only your 2nd year with the program in my opinion is great success. Bama fatigue makes people harder on CKD and the program but from a different perspective, it’s actually impressive.
I went to the wisconsin alabama game this year. The whole lead up to the game all they did was talk about all of sabans accomplishments. So much that i found myself thinking nobody could ever live up to saban and any coach willing to take that challenge on is somebody i want as our coach
The truth is, this season is likely going to be harder than the last one. We’ve got a lot of new guys in there trying to patch wounds from the last. We’ve got the potential still to do something great this year, but it’s gonna be a hard fight. We might not be there just yet, and that’s okay. I trust this coach in the long term and have high hopes. ROLL TIDE! 🐘
Lmao all the guys they replaced are ass the guys they brought in our way way better bama is deeper at every position so idk what tf you’re talking about
@Tyoso1k We have a lot of question marks from the portal and young guys on offense where we don’t know exactly how they’re gonna contribute. Every one around the camp is saying Ryan Williams is by far the best player on the field. We don’t even know if that’s a good thing yet based on last season. Our o line is a HUGE question mark. Our RB room which produced nothing (granted mostly due to the line) last season is basically the same. We have a lot of questions still. What tf are YOU talking about? A lot of other teams around the SEC are absolutely stacked. We have the potential to be great but also are likely going to be facing a lot of uphill battles.
Much more manageable schedule, no OU, UGA at home, UT with another new QB, and AU/UK with a new coach. Bama has 4 very winnable games to ramp up to UGA. The majority of the defense is back minus some linemen, which are the easiest to plug and play into. And lets be honest, the O-line cant get much worse than it was. IF bama can run the ball in the top 50, with this defense and schedule, 10-2 should be very achievable.
@zackpruitt4860 I agree it’s absolutely achievable. Im just saying I think it’ll be hard fought. The first half of our season tho is super manageable. If we can catch wind going into UGA and carry that on, we’ve definitely got a shot at doing something phenomenal. I’m just not making that my standard for this year.
THIS is who I've been dying to see on the show before the new season. I loved everything I heard. Especially that we’re not where we want to be yet. The season hasn't even started this is exactly where is headspace should be imo. Nothing like college football, roll tide!
Saban is a legend. We will never see a run like that again. Alabama fans need to get over it and be supportive of their coaches. Consider yourselves lucky to have him. Welcome to the real world now.
I really like coach as a person and I do think he’s a good coach. I’m really hoping this year he can prove that he is an Alabama head coach. There’s a certain demeanor that Alabama coaches and teams Have we haven’t seen that so far. I’m really hoping he can turn the corner this year And really become a true Alabama coach. As fans we need to see that killer instinct, and strive for perfection and dominance that we had with Nick Saban, Bear Bryant and Gene Stallings. I really like everything KD is doing except how our team has showed up in games. A lot of the times we seem flat we don’t seem very motivated. It’s like we don’t have that mindset that we’re gonna come out here and dominate the other team, maybe this is the year that all that changes and we can get back on track and be the Alabama we should be.
Why? These coaches aren’t going to just let it fly in these interviews. You’re just watching media training in action. You’ll probably get much better insight into the culture from reputable local/beat reporters.
Appreciate you for this Josh. We got ourselves a really good coach. He just happen to be taken over the reigns after Coach Saban. I'm glad he's getting time to have his type of guys/players that fit into his system. We're going to win a Natty with him as our HC. I know it. Still believe in you coach. Roll Tide🐘
Coach!! Don't listen to the outside noise! Don't listen to the bandwagon fans! Real fans that's been with the program 50+ yrs support you and the team! Roll Tide!!
Did you interview DeBoer or ChatGPT?!? Prompting AI to create an interview with a college coach gave me the same litany of buzzwords and cliques. Now I know why Alabama is a soulless, emotionless, and passionless husk of a football team. Alabama is a reflection of it’s coach.
35:05 - Great question, Pate! I really like Coach DeBoer because he coaches by empowering his players and staff, giving them trust and freedom. From an organizational perspective, he is outstanding. However, my concern is that he operates to avoid conflict instead of seeking it out. What happens is players and coaches will not "keep it real" with a coach because they don't want to disappoint him, as opposed to taking ownership of the conflict. In football, conflict reveals the character and resolve of the individual or the entity (the team). His response strikes me as not fully owning that whipping we took; instead, he seemed to buffer and soften it. That is a bad trait in a hard, drawn-out contact sport that taxes you mentally and physically every day. People pick up on that, and they will do the same within the organization. I would have liked him to say, "We got whipped, and I need to address those weaknesses head-on because, for me and this program, that is not acceptable."
Needle is moving forward. This isn’t Sabans leftovers and or players we had to beg to stay, this is his team. This won’t look anything like it has the past 2 years I promise you that. RTR 🇺🇸
Grubb told us ty was starting earlier than coach would of liked I think .. he said if we played tomorrow it's ty ... About a month and a half before week one
Hate to say this it's going to be his as last year it's his last year what's he talking about they trust the coaching staff if you don't tune some people up on defens every game and an average 100 yd a game running the ball and Nick right there the Goat first thing I would have said I got Nick in the building showing our stuff the tone we trying to set he b gonna Midway 💯
I still got faith in kalen I get tired of people hating . His resume is good and I think it was the best choice to replace saban and from wht im hearing our offensive line is the weakness for this comin season and I trust him to get them ready cause of his offensive mind
Something interesting to note... Coach has only had a 2 yr starter and 2 first year starters at qb. Hard to win at an elite level with that unless it's a Cam Newton type player.
Aggie here. I watched the one on one with Coach Elko and this one with Coach Deboer. While I totally respect Coach Deboer, and the Bama program, I believe my Aggies got this hire right. Gig Em and roll tide. 👍🏼
KD and Bama are going to be just fine and I enjoy watching all the haters in the comments and you will continue to hate because your team is not and never will be The Alabama Crimson Tide can't wait to see any team on the field Because the Tide will continue to Roll like it or not
@camjo, been a fan since 61, not a bandwagon fan. Taking the job after Saban takes big balls, BUT, losing to the teams we lost to is unacceptable Vandy, FSU, the team looking lost in multiple games, IDK, jury still out on Deboar, this is his team this year & I am not convinced. I hope I am wrong. Coaches should get 3yr contract to start, not a retirement contract when they lay an egg
Against OU….. And “won” is doing a lot. More like OU fumbled the game, figuratively and literally. They shouldn’t have even been there (OU and Alabama). Playoff would have been better leaving them out.
With all of the new faces and lack of experience returning (aside from the secondary), this year sets up to be a 4 loss regular season with this coaching staff. Football remains a line of scrimmage game. I’m not convinced this staff understands this or can develop players to perform consistently at a high level. DeBoer’s had talent the past two years. I’m going to watch with low expectations in 2026.
We will continue to take steps forward. Glad to have DeBoer as my coach the only question I had was could he compete in recruiting in the SEC and he has consistently shown that he can
Compared to how hard Indiana plays for four quarters, Alabama is on cruise control. I guess it’s a PAC12 thing. Not the new one the one that doesn’t… ohhhh.
Missed opportunity to ask why when early in the 3rd quarter of the Rose Bowl, it was evident, what we were doing was not working, why not just bring in the second string of players? It couldn't have gotten much worse and at least, you'd know Indy didn't have any tape on most of those players to study, much like when Saban put in mostly Freshmen (Tua, Davonta Smith, etc.) to spark a struggling team and actually win the game. Defensive starters were dogged tired from being on the field most of the time and offensive line just wasn't cutting the mustard. I, along w/ many other arm chair coaches really wanted to see something different and courageous tried cuz, as stated, it couldn't have gotten much worse.
No team can win an NC with a bad O-line Coach! ik saw an o-lineman backing up and looking around to decide who they were supposed to block! That has to be fixed before you can compete with anyone on the Bama schedule! EVERY NC drive started on the o-line!
Are you crazy. He does not have any of the fire of kirby. He is uncovered bothered by losing. Everyone on the Saban coaching tree seeing losing as near death.
@donjon1179hey buddy nothing I said in that statement was insulting to deboer he’s a cool guy who’s opinion on the sport I care about That being said Kirby is still the best coach in the country to disagree with that is either fueled by biased or hatred
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Alabama is a very difficult job no matter who you are. Kalen is a winner and I hope to see him succeed.
That clown is getting fired this year if they have record like last year.
@WarWxlf I'm not a bama fan at all. I have seen his out of control players and undisciplined team. He turned sabans office into a verizon store. The standard there is gone. You are in the era of the ME ME ME player. All about money now.
@WarWxlf Nah bama fans were right clowning that man from day one wearing his dollar store t-shirt. I don't even like alabama.
@270eman
Wrong
@270eman
He is a good coach. Just to have the stones to take the job after nick saban says alot. He will just fine plus alabama had a decent year this past year .
This is probably the most comfortable and transparent I've seen Deboer in an interview since he joined Bama.
It’s because he has an interviewer that actually has class!
Comfortable? The guy said absolutely nothing! This guy is destroying the BAMA program! It will take years to recover from this clown
@sethjustice7218 Are you dumb or just a hater i cant tell
I was talking about the interview, not his record. He was direct and had less coach speak than usual. But 20-8 overall, a CFP appearance, and 7-1 in the SEC last year isn't "destroying" anything. Relax.
@sethjustice7218 go take a bubble bath and relax 😂
I am happy Alabama is finally giving this man a break. Let him do his job. He is a good coach.
😊yes a good coach no doubt just not a championship coach, he's not built for bama or the SEC period but I'm a bama fan through and though but our championship Glory days are gone we are average now bowl game we will appear in instead of a natty
@PoloDro-z4l I hate bama fans like you, you’re just a band wagon fan. I’d like to bet you have no ties to the state nor the university. You also probably have only a very entry level understanding of football. This guy is a top 5 coach. And he will show you and when he does stay on that side, you don’t deserve to root with us
@PoloDro-z4lThe days of 2 or 3 teams dominating and in the natty every year are over. Even if Saban was still there they would probably have the same record. You could see the shift the last couple season he was there. You could be right about KB, I hope not. I feel he will get them a Natty, they just won’t be every other year.
@PoloDro-z4lThat's just straight bs. He went 7-1 in the SEC in the regular and beat both teams he lost to without any semblance of a running game. Some of you aren't realistic in anyway, shape or form. Kalen is an elite coach. Just look at the schools that wanted to hire him this winter and we had idiot fans that wanted him to leave with knowing that there wasn't any coach better on the market.
Good is not good enough for alabama. Roll tide
I love this guy. You can tell he's driven and intense but simultaneously a kind and genuine person. It's why he's recruiting at an elite level, when many said he wouldn't be able to. He finally has the players to fit his system and it won't be long until he's bringing another Natty to T-Town.
I don't know that he was the absolute best possible hire after Saban but he was one of the better ones they could have found. No matter what there was going to be a dip after Saban, there was no preventing that.
But last year they were close, the main thing holding them back was how bad the O-line was. It made things tough for the running game which made things really tough for Simpson. If they can figure out that 1 issue a lot of things will fall into place. The defense was very good, other than being weak to the run the first half of the season which they improved on greatly throughout the year.
@EB_3DI believe he's brought in the linemen that more for good style, lighter and more athletic for pulling.
Roll damn tide 🐘🐘
I still have faith in Kalen DeBoer!
Modest guy.
Roll Tide!
How in the world is your run game that bad with the talent at Alabama? That's a scary thought. Makes no sense.
@florida1289- it was a disaster last year. KD will fix it.
As UGA fan, all of the past perennials have to manage expectations. The days of repeat titles are over. When top tier players will choose Texas Tech or Illinois or whoever over Bama, UGA, Ohio St, Michigan, etc., it’s just not possible to have the depth to do it like we used to do. Teams like Miami, Indiana, Texas Tech, have an advantage as their schedule doesn’t lend to them losing multiple starters in tough conference games. That’s without even mentioning 7th year QB’s and the like. DeBoer is as good a coach as one could ask for.
I agree to an extent where titles won’t be won as often anymore by the same teams. However, all 3 of the last national championships won by the Big10 were due to having a leg up on the rest of the country in maturity, strength and conditioning due to age. Heck Indianas team was so old they even had a couple 8th year guys. Michigan was old and Harbaugh cheated, OSU was old, Indiana was old, this was largely due to covid players being granted extra unnecessary years of eligibility. There may be another old team or 2 this year and next that’ll win it but most of the covid players are just about fizzled out now. Once they’re all gone we’ll find out who the real coaches are. Harbaugh was praised before he was caught cheating, Ryan Day was praised, problem is neither of them could get it done before their players turned into old men. Same with Indiana Cignetti is being praised for “doing the impossible” by turning a dead program into a national title caliber team within 2 years when we all know that’s not the case at all. His recruiting and transfer additions have been hot garbage and now his team full of old heads are gone so he’s very unlikely to repeat success. Alabama and UGA brands recruit themselves and still out recruits Oregon who spends Nike money, OSU whose head coach is a cry baby always begging for more money, as well as Michigan. My point is long story short, UGA and Alabama may not be able to win chips as much as they did now, but who was winning chips before the old men teams? Kirby Smart. Who was competing for chips before the old men teams? Kalen Deboer. It’ll show in another year or so. It’ll all come back to coaching because the days of covid and 6th, 7th 8th years of eligibility are just about gone
@paulshears5202 “What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
@DirtNapFairyI don’t give a damn about your points buddy lol cry harder
@paulshears5202 Some Big 10 schools also have a leg up in terms of NIL money
@paulshears5202quoting the movie Billy Madison you smooth brain. No one cares what you have to say.
That’s my coach. Roll Tide! Appreciate you doing this one again 🤝
Please beg your fan base to by in. He can win a natty mf played for one at washington. He won't be saban or bear...nobody is...but he is no mike shula
@jameycockrell5481agreed, wish people would realize it’s gonna take a few years. Nobody is Saban. This year will be better I personally believe. It’ll be his players and his scheme totally in place.
@jameycockrell5481I'm willing to give him another year, I just gotta see toughness and grit. Mike Shula gets more criticism than is fair to him though. He took over a program nobody wanted for less money than some coordinators get. Sanctions tied his hands on recruiting and we were in the middle of a bowl ban. He had coaching flaws (at certain critical times had a deer in the headlights look), but he brought stability to a program that was in desperate need for it. For that, he'll always have my respect.
@michaelmccord1317If we’re being honest, the last 3 national championships were won with old men covid players that were granted unnecessary years of eligibility including 6th, 7th, and in Indianas case, 8th year players. Let’s just be real here. Michigan had an old man team when they won it, OSU had an old man team the year before when they won it, and Indiana had an old man team last year. So my question to you, now that the old men covid players are just about fizzled out making it impossible to build such an old team, is, who was winning national titles before the old men covid teams? Kirby Smart and UGA. Who was competing for national championships at that time? Kalen Deboer. So there you have it. We got a good coach at Alabama everything has just been kinda jacked up because of covid. Now that’s about over with we’ll find out who the real coaches are and I’m willing to bet Kalen Deboer is one of those few real coaches. Is he or will he be saban? No. But he’s beaten some who are considered the best. Multiple times actually. It’s not his fault Indiana had a leg up on the rest of the country in age
@michaelmccord1317 does that mean you would’ve rather kept Shula than hire Saban. Shula was just there until they got off probation. He would’ve never won a natty even when they were off probation
I hate the way our season ended, however i am still optimistic that our team will get better and better. I believe in our coach!
Indiana destroyed everyone.
@Average_Middle_Aged_Americanthey did but 3 points is actually crazy😂
I think a lot of times fans forget how hard it is to even make the playoffs let alone win a game there. To do this in only your 2nd year with the program in my opinion is great success. Bama fatigue makes people harder on CKD and the program but from a different perspective, it’s actually impressive.
We are 1000% behind Coach DeBoer!!! He not only a Great Coach- He is a man of integrity! ROLL TIDE ROLL‼️🏈🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 18 going on 19
Roll Tide. Coach is the best guy for the job right now.
Excited for this one!
I went to the wisconsin alabama game this year. The whole lead up to the game all they did was talk about all of sabans accomplishments. So much that i found myself thinking nobody could ever live up to saban and any coach willing to take that challenge on is somebody i want as our coach
Roll Tide. Alabama is fortunate to have Coach Debour.
The truth is, this season is likely going to be harder than the last one. We’ve got a lot of new guys in there trying to patch wounds from the last. We’ve got the potential still to do something great this year, but it’s gonna be a hard fight. We might not be there just yet, and that’s okay. I trust this coach in the long term and have high hopes. ROLL TIDE! 🐘
Lmao all the guys they replaced are ass the guys they brought in our way way better bama is deeper at every position so idk what tf you’re talking about
@Tyoso1k We have a lot of question marks from the portal and young guys on offense where we don’t know exactly how they’re gonna contribute. Every one around the camp is saying Ryan Williams is by far the best player on the field. We don’t even know if that’s a good thing yet based on last season. Our o line is a HUGE question mark. Our RB room which produced nothing (granted mostly due to the line) last season is basically the same. We have a lot of questions still. What tf are YOU talking about? A lot of other teams around the SEC are absolutely stacked. We have the potential to be great but also are likely going to be facing a lot of uphill battles.
Much more manageable schedule, no OU, UGA at home, UT with another new QB, and AU/UK with a new coach. Bama has 4 very winnable games to ramp up to UGA. The majority of the defense is back minus some linemen, which are the easiest to plug and play into. And lets be honest, the O-line cant get much worse than it was. IF bama can run the ball in the top 50, with this defense and schedule, 10-2 should be very achievable.
No more championships at Alabama!! He want make!! This will be his last year!! He's another Franconi he doesn't fit at Alabama!!!
@zackpruitt4860 I agree it’s absolutely achievable. Im just saying I think it’ll be hard fought. The first half of our season tho is super manageable. If we can catch wind going into UGA and carry that on, we’ve definitely got a shot at doing something phenomenal. I’m just not making that my standard for this year.
Letttsss gooo rolll tideee 🐘🐘been waiting on this
All the Finebaum callers want him out, but any reasonable fan understand he’s actually a decent replacement. I’m a Bama fan and will stand by him
Finebaum is a complete 🤡. Id be happy to see him fired of every job he has and stripped of every dollar he has. He's a big eared fool.
Roll Tide 🅰️ DeBoer has got to go-I don’t get an “ Or else “ vibe from him.
A trade mark of Bama football.
Team needs that-he’s too squishy.
I'll support him but I don't get a warm and fuzzy from him.
@theknowitall4090That’s the problem-he’s a warm and fuzzy guy.
We need a junk yard dog not a Westminster dog.
Roll Tide !
You’re crazy if you think we are going to stand by this guy! This guy is destroying our program!
THIS is who I've been dying to see on the show before the new season. I loved everything I heard. Especially that we’re not where we want to be yet. The season hasn't even started this is exactly where is headspace should be imo. Nothing like college football, roll tide!
Coach will bring Alabama a title! ROLL TIDE! 🐘🌊🐘🌊
Watch every Min. This man knows what takes to win he knows the pressure. 😢😮❤. If you 🅰️Ll in Let'em get 🅰️ ROLLTIDE
Pate deserves a presidential medal of freedom for bringing us quality cfb content during this part of the year!
I agree. Pate never disappoints.
I SEE KALEN 🐐 BOER AND I CLICK INSTANTLY.
Roll tide!!
roll tide i think kalen deober is right coach that will lead bama to natty roll tide
Mane stop
Lead bama to 11th place
I love Deboer roll damn tide
Thanks J.P.
Let’s go coach 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Coach Debo!!!! Roll Tide!!!
Really hope they get coach Heupel!
Saban is a legend. We will never see a run like that again. Alabama fans need to get over it and be supportive of their coaches. Consider yourselves lucky to have him. Welcome to the real world now.
I really like coach as a person and I do think he’s a good coach. I’m really hoping this year he can prove that he is an Alabama head coach. There’s a certain demeanor that Alabama coaches and teams Have we haven’t seen that so far. I’m really hoping he can turn the corner this year And really become a true Alabama coach. As fans we need to see that killer instinct, and strive for perfection and dominance that we had with Nick Saban, Bear Bryant and Gene Stallings. I really like everything KD is doing except how our team has showed up in games. A lot of the times we seem flat we don’t seem very motivated. It’s like we don’t have that mindset that we’re gonna come out here and dominate the other team, maybe this is the year that all that changes and we can get back on track and be the Alabama we should be.
DeBoer can win at Bama. This year will be very pivotal in proving that he can
Josh is such a good interviewer! Really appreciate that about him! RTR
Appreciate it 🫡🫡🫡
Roll tide forever!
great dude great coach
We love you coach. Lfggg
Roll tide
This is going to be a kickass season for the thide!!!
ROLL TIDE!!!!!🐘🐘🐘🐘🌊🌊🌊🌊
I’m glad Coach Deboer is our coach! Roll Tide!!
ROLL TIDE ROLL!
Honestly if we are being honesty the leap from year 1 to year 2 for Alabama was kinda huge
I am excited!
Great interview!
Like it up fellas
This Video Should get a lot of Views..
Why? These coaches aren’t going to just let it fly in these interviews. You’re just watching media training in action. You’ll probably get much better insight into the culture from reputable local/beat reporters.
Appreciate you for this Josh. We got ourselves a really good coach. He just happen to be taken over the reigns after Coach Saban. I'm glad he's getting time to have his type of guys/players that fit into his system. We're going to win a Natty with him as our HC. I know it. Still believe in you coach. Roll Tide🐘
Josh digging deep to find a thousand questions 😂.. Cool of Coach to take all those questions. Rtr!
Liked & Commenting… great show !
Coach!! Don't listen to the outside noise! Don't listen to the bandwagon fans! Real fans that's been with the program 50+ yrs support you and the team! Roll Tide!!
He letting YALL KNOW THE TEAM HAS BEEN UNDISCIPLINED AND I BELIEVE THEY WERE FN off for the season opener
Impressive dude..
RTR!!!
That seat is gettin warm buddy better do something this year 😂
Roll Tide 💪🏾 I'd love to have a conversation with coach one day.
15:30 “Take for granite”
Thank you again for another great video with another great coach for this speaker series
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Did you interview DeBoer or ChatGPT?!?
Prompting AI to create an interview with a college coach gave me the same litany of buzzwords and cliques. Now I know why Alabama is a soulless, emotionless, and passionless husk of a football team. Alabama is a reflection of it’s coach.
35:05 - Great question, Pate! I really like Coach DeBoer because he coaches by empowering his players and staff, giving them trust and freedom. From an organizational perspective, he is outstanding.
However, my concern is that he operates to avoid conflict instead of seeking it out. What happens is players and coaches will not "keep it real" with a coach because they don't want to disappoint him, as opposed to taking ownership of the conflict.
In football, conflict reveals the character and resolve of the individual or the entity (the team).
His response strikes me as not fully owning that whipping we took; instead, he seemed to buffer and soften it.
That is a bad trait in a hard, drawn-out contact sport that taxes you mentally and physically every day. People pick up on that, and they will do the same within the organization.
I would have liked him to say, "We got whipped, and I need to address those weaknesses head-on because, for me and this program, that is not acceptable."
Debore is a good coach.
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Great job Josh, good Q’s..unfortunately Coach Squish didn’t provide answers.
Josh you gotta get that man on the bald train. Yeesh
Yes, he's gotta stop trying to hang on to that small bit of hair.
Just get a power o line and focus on STAMINA. It's all about FINISHING.
Needle is moving forward. This isn’t Sabans leftovers and or players we had to beg to stay, this is his team. This won’t look anything like it has the past 2 years I promise you that. RTR 🇺🇸
Ide settle for not getting blown out multiple times a year!
Roll Tide! 🐘
Everything is on the offensive line. Period
Grubb told us ty was starting earlier than coach would of liked I think .. he said if we played tomorrow it's ty ... About a month and a half before week one
Hate to say this it's going to be his as last year it's his last year what's he talking about they trust the coaching staff if you don't tune some people up on defens every game and an average 100 yd a game running the ball and Nick right there the Goat first thing I would have said I got Nick in the building showing our stuff the tone we trying to set he b gonna Midway 💯
Did I detect a bit of twang in coach KD voice?
I still got faith in kalen I get tired of people hating . His resume is good and I think it was the best choice to replace saban and from wht im hearing our offensive line is the weakness for this comin season and I trust him to get them ready cause of his offensive mind
Something interesting to note... Coach has only had a 2 yr starter and 2 first year starters at qb. Hard to win at an elite level with that unless it's a Cam Newton type player.
Needs to do this with all SEC coaches
I'm pretty sure he did that last year.
Seems like he interviewed some coaches outside of SEC too.
7-5 😊
Aggie here. I watched the one on one with Coach Elko and this one with Coach Deboer. While I totally respect Coach Deboer, and the Bama program, I believe my Aggies got this hire right. Gig Em and roll tide. 👍🏼
So NO LOCKR ROOM LEADERS WE BEEN KNOWING THISS! locker room leaders are reflective of coaching staff that leads
I think we have the right coach. Just need to let him build his program in this wacky time.
KD and Bama are going to be just fine and I enjoy watching all the haters in the comments and you will continue to hate because your team is not and never will be The Alabama Crimson Tide can't wait to see any team on the field Because the Tide will continue to Roll like it or not
Can't wait until we shed all these bandwagon fans that are still clinging on. Some of y'all are insufferable
@camjo, been a fan since 61, not a bandwagon fan. Taking the job after Saban takes big balls, BUT, losing to the teams we lost to is unacceptable Vandy, FSU, the team looking lost in multiple games, IDK, jury still out on Deboar, this is his team this year & I am not convinced. I hope I am wrong. Coaches should get 3yr contract to start, not a retirement contract when they lay an egg
I am so thankful Bama hired this guy. They will continue to slide backwards for years under him.
Facts.
You wish
@Leroy-h9dBro... you have stress bears and painted fingernails now on this team now. Get used to it.
@EarlyRiser71 well care bears and painted nails seem to fit in the weak ass football we have to watch now a days and that's nation wide
@EarlyRiser71those stress bears and painted fingernails still gave 177 to Georgias defense…. Lmao
ROLL DAM TIDE
DeBoer decided to retain Ryan Grubb. Nuff said...🤔
He will have Josh Pates hair by end of season 😂. Go dawgs
What’s your hairline like? Throwing stones without a profile pic
Now that’s funny.😂
Roll Tide
This guy has won more playoff games in the last 3 years than Kirby Smart btw😂
Roll Tide
@CFBiasTrue-but I’d rather win the SEC Title than playoff games.
But I’m an old guy 😂 RTR
Against OU…..
And “won” is doing a lot. More like OU fumbled the game, figuratively and literally.
They shouldn’t have even been there (OU and Alabama). Playoff would have been better leaving them out.
With all of the new faces and lack of experience returning (aside from the secondary), this year sets up to be a 4 loss regular season with this coaching staff. Football remains a line of scrimmage game. I’m not convinced this staff understands this or can develop players to perform consistently at a high level. DeBoer’s had talent the past two years. I’m going to watch with low expectations in 2026.
Yea. We heard that last year. Just don’t watch at all at this point
@TattedVetReacts
And they couldn’t run the ball or stop the run.
@Foo@Fooballsicko and still went to the playoffs and got a playoff win. Georgia, A&M and Ohio State can’t say the same
We will continue to take steps forward. Glad to have DeBoer as my coach the only question I had was could he compete in recruiting in the SEC and he has consistently shown that he can
dont give a piss about nuttin but the tide
Compared to how hard Indiana plays for four quarters, Alabama is on cruise control. I guess it’s a PAC12 thing. Not the new one the one that doesn’t… ohhhh.
only a couple more years until the buyout is feasible 🙏
Missed opportunity to ask why when early in the 3rd quarter of the Rose Bowl, it was evident, what we were doing was not working, why not just bring in the second string of players? It couldn't have gotten much worse and at least, you'd know Indy didn't have any tape on most of those players to study, much like when Saban put in mostly Freshmen (Tua, Davonta Smith, etc.) to spark a struggling team and actually win the game. Defensive starters were dogged tired from being on the field most of the time and offensive line just wasn't cutting the mustard. I, along w/ many other arm chair coaches really wanted to see something different and courageous tried cuz, as stated, it couldn't have gotten much worse.
DeVonte had played the whole game. The only change was putting Tua in.
He needs to kick some player tail too nice.
No team can win an NC with a bad O-line Coach! ik saw an o-lineman backing up and looking around to decide who they were supposed to block! That has to be fixed before you can compete with anyone on the Bama schedule! EVERY NC drive started on the o-line!
We need to work on discipline.
Only1? that lingers...why the hell you did not bench Milroe? Info I've gotten was it was a race thing
Outstanding left coast HR manager
My guy takes a minute to say 10 seconds
Getting closer and closer to Kirby
2-1 against Kirby
Are you crazy. He does not have any of the fire of kirby. He is uncovered bothered by losing. Everyone on the Saban coaching tree seeing losing as near death.
@princekevincurryyou can’t be not be bothered by losing when you have a winning record over someone.
@donjon1179hey buddy nothing I said in that statement was insulting to deboer he’s a cool guy who’s opinion on the sport I care about
That being said Kirby is still the best coach in the country to disagree with that is either fueled by biased or hatred