Have Bama fans started the "Fire DeBoer" thread yet?

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Bearkat_Vol said:
I believe they will owe him $60 million payable through 2031 if he is fired on 12/1.
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Kalen DeBoer buyout, contract details as Alabama coach in Year 2

The second-year Crimson Tide coach continues to get off to a rocky start replacing Nick Saban
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That's $10 million per year, plus assistant coaches, new coach, and new staff.
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Don't forget a lot of those assistant coaches have buyouts too. Then you have to factor in buying out another top level coach. Let's say Dabo wants it. He'd be the cheapest at 7.5 m due to the Bama clause in his contract. Then you have to buy a whole new roster to replace the exodus of players you inevitably would have faced in the portal. That factor alone, along with the NIL situation at Bama, is probably going to deter most good prospects.
 
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RandomUTfan said:
Don't forget a lot of those assistant coaches have buyouts too. Then you have to factor in buying out another top level coach. Let's say Dabo wants it. He'd be the cheapest at 7.5 m due to the Bama clause in his contract. Then you have to buy a whole new roster to replace the exodus of players you inevitably would have faced in the portal. That factor alone, along with the NIL situation at Bama, is probably going to deter most good prospects.
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What exactly is Alabama’s NIL situation? I’ve heard they half half the budget of OSU and Texas.
 
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THEONLYTENISEE said:
What exactly is Alabama’s NIL situation? I’ve heard they half half the budget of OSU and Texas.
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There's no way to know concretely what their NIL situation is but you can tell by context clues that it's not nearly as good as, well, the teams they are consistently losing players to. Heck they lost a RB who really could have helped them this year to FSU! He helped FSU beat them instead! But AJ McCarron did suggest it's half of what the teams spending 30-40 million are spending.
 
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RandomUTfan said:
There's no way to know concretely what their NIL situation is but you can tell by context clues that it's not nearly as good as, well, the teams they are consistently losing players to. Heck they lost a RB who really could have helped them this year to FSU! He helped FSU beat them instead! But AJ McCarron did suggest it's half of what the teams spending 30-40 million are spending.
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So they were getting the Saban discount.
 
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RandomUTfan said:
There's absolutely no question. Sort of like Kentucky when Cal was there and Cal still couldn't put together a roster that compared to his past ones. Similarly Saban started to fall off at the end of his tenure.
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Saban's 2 post-NIL recruiting classes (2022 and 2023) were ranked 2nd and 1st in the country. Alabama finished 5th in the country in 2022 and 2023, beat UGA to win the SEC in 2023, and made the CFP in 2023. 2023 was probably one of the best coaching jobs he did the entire time he was there.

I know "Saban saw what was coming and dipped" is a popular narrative, but the program wasn't declining at all when he left. I think people forget that he was 71 years old.
 
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