For Alabama fans coming from 6 national titles and 9 SEC championships under Nick Saban in 17 years, to see Kalen DeBoer regress to just 9 wins was a tough adjustment. The Bama legacy was already sealed in stone with Saban exiting the program, and the expectations, as usual, were sky high. So, for any other program, 9 wins in just the first season of a head coach would have been satisfying, not Bama, though. Naturally, going into the 2025 season, the pressure on Kalen DeBoer is as intense as ever. However, the head coach under that mounting pressure has a promise of a freshman prodigy exceeding expectations.

Last year, as Bama under Kalen DeBoer got defeated by Vanderbilt, Finebaum declared, “He [DeBoer] literally is turning Alabama fans off. I’m just saying if you’re looking at Kalen De

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