I’d like to know how Alabama thinks they are going to fix this
Morrell and Inge were clearly viewed as bush league and you can’t go and hire them now (Morrell already cratered his own value by taking an “analyst” job there. I don’t think deboer has a tree beyond that?
Any outside DC is looking at this situation and saying 1) is Deboer going to last more than a year or two more, and 2) even if he does well, is he just going to bail for the NFL in the same amount of time? Obviously money and prestige talks (and maybe there is a midyear fired defensive guru head coach who will take a Sark like rehabilitation job) but the thing about advancing so quickly is that you really don’t have a network or a tree to pull from.
This is what would worry me about Alabama making a run at Steve B if he continues his good performance so far. He doesn’t have to worry about being latched to deboer because of his dad’s (and own) connections, and it appears he doesn’t particularly care for recruiting, so there’s that too. Unfortunately we are a stepping stone program for players, coaches, even ADs, until we get onto the full B1G share.