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Alabama Football - Now Featuring Kalen DeBoer

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5 hours ago, closetojumping said:

What is your use of the word "actually" meant to imply here? That setting Williams up to be bracketed on the reg is actually strategically intelligent?

While losing a game your team was thoroughly dominated in.

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    I was listening to an interview by Finebaum with John Talty. Talty covered Bama for years and just published a book with Armen Ketayan called “The Price” about staying competitive in today’s CFB lands

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5 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

I have no idea who she is and all but damn if that doesn’t make me laugh.

You mean to tell me you don't know Atomic Kitten?

On 9/4/2025 at 12:28 PM, Not a Sock said:

I can see Ryan Williams ending up on a similar path to Harold Perkins. Be a 5* recruit, play absolutely out of your mind during a game your freshman year, be declared a generational talent and then proceed to not do much and play out of position while being a massive NIL resource sink.

Seems like the kind of player Tech would love to overpay for and then crow about their portal prowess. 

On 9/4/2025 at 2:57 PM, DFW Horn said:

DeBoer was a fool to leave U-Dub for this situation. But he'll enjoy the buyout life for a while before he lands his next gig. The money and Bama's pedigree were too good to pass up.

Nobody taking a $63M guaranteed deal is a fool. 

On 9/4/2025 at 12:31 PM, Bama Llama said:

I have witnessed Alabama football doing some desert wandering a few times in my 65 or so years of relatively focused and sentient observations. I don’t trash opponents (with one notable exception) and I don’t bail on coaches and bitch about them after the fact.  I don’t give one shit what anyone says on Finebaum or social media.  I am thankful for the effort Paul Bryant, Gene Stallings and Nick Saban put forth when they coached in Tuscaloosa. I am hopelessly addicted to following this team come what may. I was not shocked to see Bryant or Saban retire, don’t blame either of them for wanting peace in their lives. Bryant smoked too many unfiltered Chesterfields to have a retirement break.  I hope Saban has many years and doesn’t make the mistake of returning to corching. I am keeping my promise to give Kalen DeBoer a two year pass and hope he finds success here or somewhere.  All this ridiculing by ignorant deconstuctive critics accomplishes nothing. Poor Mike Shula had a meh first press conference, after which Finebaum and other muckrakers said he was not a good “fit.” I say all comparisons are odious and we should light a few candles rather than curse the darkness, or we’ll be wandering in the darkness for a dozen years like the Burnt Orange after Pasadena. Never give up or give in. Never concede.

i went down to the Swamp in 1991 and saw Stallings’ second Bama team get crushed 35-0, and all you heard was get rid of Stallings, he was a loser in the NFL, he’ll never win at Alabama. The next week we had an ugly win over UGA at Bryant-Denny, and didn’t lose again for 29 games. Patience, motherfuckers!

 

You’re a good fan. You remind me of one we used to have many years ago, Cowboy3949 (RIP). He posted once, “Running down your head football coach in public leads to positive outcomes like talking bad about your wife in public”. 

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You mean to tell me you don't know Atomic Kitten?

Correct.  I don’t know

On 9/5/2025 at 10:31 AM, closetojumping said:

What is your use of the word "actually" meant to imply here? That setting Williams up to be bracketed on the reg is actually strategically intelligent?

No I just meant it's hard to tell because it was one game at a new position and he was doubled the entire time with net positive results. I agree he looked pretty beat up but that could have happened to anybody. 

Questionable this week for Bama's home game against Wisconsin in which Bama is currently favored by 21.5 points:

-WR Ryan Williams (concussion)

-RB Jam Miller (shoulder) - Deboer said he will probably play this weekend.

-DT Tim Keenan (Ankle/Tightrope Surgery) - unlikely

-OLB Jah-Marien Latham (lowerl leg injury) - unlikely

Wisconsin sucks eggs. This will still probably be a blowout on the same level as last week. 

Alabama beat the shit out of them last year.  It will be interesting to see where things stand this season.

On 9/5/2025 at 9:05 PM, statsman said:

You’re a good fan. You remind me of one we used to have many years ago, Cowboy3949 (RIP). He posted once, “Running down your head football coach in public leads to positive outcomes like talking bad about your wife in public”. 

I dunno what, if any, influence bitching about Strong or Herman had, but the ultimate outcome was getting rid of them both. I'm okay with that reality. 

Damn, forgot that they ran the score up that high last week. Kalen really let those poor future mailmen feel his wrath. 

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My daughter was a freshman at UA during the brief Price “era.”  He had a habit of turning up semi-hammered at the coded gate of his on campus condominium at the same time as coveys of lithe, nubile coeds coming in from bar crawling, asking if they could punch the code to open the gate to the elevator because he had forgotten what day it was.  My daughter was not one of the coeds and no pics, you sick fucks.  The players LOVED Mike Price and lobbied the AD to keep him even after the Pensacola strippers incident.  Shades lof Hugh Freeze!

2 hours ago, Bama Llama said:

My daughter was a freshman at UA during the brief Price “era.”  He had a habit of turning up semi-hammered at the coded gate of his on campus condominium at the same time as coveys of lithe, nubile coeds coming in from bar crawling, asking if they could punch the code to open the gate to the elevator because he had forgotten what day it was.  My daughter was not one of the coeds and no pics, you sick fucks.  The players LOVED Mike Price and lobbied the AD to keep him even after the Pensacola strippers incident.  Shades lof Hugh Freeze!

I’ll never forget watching that press conference where he stepped down. Multiple players were there in support of Price. One of my favorites of that era, Shaud Williams, was sobbing. Dark days for the Bama faithful. 

It's actually kind of funny that Price only really missed that one season. He slid right into that UTEP gig and coached there for a decade. And he still has a helluva story to tell.

7 hours ago, Blotto said:

It's actually kind of funny that Price only really missed that one season. He slid right into that UTEP gig and coached there for a decade. And he still has a helluva story to tell.

His stripper companions literally ordered two of everything on the room service breakfast menu, using his UA credit card. 

12 hours ago, squib said:

I’ll never forget watching that press conference where he stepped down. Multiple players were there in support of Price. One of my favorites of that era, Shaud Williams, was sobbing. Dark days for the Bama faithful. 

"oh shaudie...you're just so cute and don't you know it."

 

To open the 2002 game in Fayetteville, Arkansas kicked the football out of the back of the end zone.  On the first play from scrimmage, “Shaudie” took a draw play 80 yards to the house, untouched.  Pound for pound, that guy was one the best college football players I ever saw.  Tough, fast, sure handed.  His tearful argument to keep Mike Price was eloquent but the die had been cast. I’ll remember Shaud when our defense tries to handle Mike Shula’s offense at South Carolina in a few weeks.

2 hours ago, Bama Llama said:

To open the 2002 game in Fayetteville, Arkansas kicked the football out of the back of the end zone.  On the first play from scrimmage, “Shaudie” took a draw play 80 yards to the house, untouched.  Pound for pound, that guy was one the best college football players I ever saw.  Tough, fast, sure handed.  His tearful argument to keep Mike Price was eloquent but the die had been cast. I’ll remember Shaud when our defense tries to handle Mike Shula’s offense at South Carolina in a few weeks.

Shaud was a stud. Came out of Andrews in West Texas a bit small and under ranked. He had a great freshman year at Tech and then got injured and transferred to Bama after his second year (back when you had to sit a year). I think he also hadn’t signed up to play for Leach and wanted to be at the center of a rushing attack. 
 

Under Spyke Tech had some really, really solid RBs. Bam Morris, Byron Hanspard, their own Ricky Williams. After his freshman year folks thought Shaud would be the next one and he was- for Bama. 

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It's Kane Wommack vs. Diego Pavia in Tuscaloosa. There's a formula out to beat Kalen DeBoer's Alabama and Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia knows it by heart, because he invented it. In Vandy's 40-35 upset of then-No. 1 Alabama last season, Pavia totaled 40 combined rushes and passes, while Alabama ran 45 plays... total.

In their 24-3 win over the Tide last November, Oklahoma called just 11 pass plays to 25 runs for Jackson Arnold. In their 31-17 win over the Tide to open this season, Tommy Castellanos completed just nine passes for 152 yards while carrying the ball 16 times. Alabama's defenses have consistently struggled to contain the quarterback run game dating back to the Nick Saban era, and that has not changed when the defense changed hands to Wommack. They're often confused and a step slow to react, and also high on their own supply. Last year's Vandy loss came the week after the Georgia win (sound familiar?), and Oklahoma two weeks after the Tide beat LSU by nearly 30 points in Baton Rouge. The Michigan and Florida State losses came after long layoffs. 

So, there's a lot to like here if you're No. 16 Vanderbilt (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC). And for as dangerous as Vanderbilt is in the run game, the pass game has added a new element to punish wandering eyes. Last year, the 'Dores completed 30 passes of 20-plus yards across 13 games; they're already at 20 through five contests this year. 

The problem for Vandy, however, is that if we're aware of all this, No. 10 Alabama is, too. The Commodores are not going to sneak into Bryant-Denny Stadium undetected and disrespected. And for all the struggles DeBoer has had, they've all come away from home. He's 9-0 at home. If Alabama jumps out early, it's tough to see Vanderbilt overcoming event a modest deficit on the road.

But let's say Vandy's up 14-7 midway through the second quarter, goes on a 7-minute drive to set up a field goal with a minute and a half left before halftime, and Vandy gets the ball to open the second half. Alabama is going to feel like it's drowning on dry land. 

The stakes for Vanderbilt. Officially, this is the biggest game since Oct. 4, 2008, when GameDay came to Nashville for No. 13 Auburn at No. 19 Vanderbilt, a game the 'Dores won and moved up to No. 13 before dropping their next four on their way to a 7-6 finish. Vanderbilt also enjoyed back-to-back 9-win seasons under James Franklin, ending both 2012 and '13 in the AP Top 25. So it's not as if you have to go back to ancient times to find successful Commodore squads.

But, c'mon. A win here likely vaults Vanderbilt into the AP top-10 for the first time since 1947 and fully moves Clark Lea's team into the upper echelon of the conference. They are by no means home free with a win here -- after a bye, Vandy gets LSU, Missouri and Texas in succession -- but if you can beat Alabama at Alabama, who can't you beat? 

Why does bama struggle with a running qb? Do they not see that in high school?

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Have to pressure Bama QB to beat them... 

WR group is so much better than Texas -- no Texas WR would start at Bama.  😬

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18 minutes ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

Here's your choices.  Getting close to kickoff.

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Wrong thread maybe ???

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Trent Seaborn, Class of 2027 quarterback, commits to Alabama

Eli Lederman   Oct 20, 2025

Alabama continued its efforts to pad its future quarterback depth Monday when four-star 2027 passer Trent Seaborn announced his commitment to the Crimson Tide.

Seaborn, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound recruit from Alabaster, Alabama, is ESPN's No. 7 pocket passer and No. 114 overall prospect in the 2027 recruiting cycle. He picked in-state Alabama over Miami, Oregon and South Carolina, among others, landing with the Crimson Tide two days after visiting for the program's 37-20 win over Tennessee in Week 8.

Seaborn now lands as the fourth ESPN 300 recruit committed to Alabama's 2027 class and is the latest addition to Crimson Tide coach Kalen DeBoer's growing quarterback pipeline.

Behind Heisman Trophy contender Ty Simpson, Alabama's current quarterback depth is anchored by redshirt sophomore Austin Mack and five-star freshman Keelon Russell, ESPN's top-ranked member of DeBoer's first signing class with the Crimson Tide. In the 2026 cycle, Alabama is set to sign a pair of quarterbacks when the early signing period opens on Dec. 3 between four-star Iowa State flip Jett Thomalla and three-star passer Tayden-Evan Kaawa.

In Seaborn, the Crimson Tide have the commitment of a uniquely experienced high school quarterback and one of the most productive passers in the 2027 class. A junior at Alabama's Thompson High School, Seaborn became the program's varsity starter as an eighth-grader in the 2022 season, eventually leading the Warriors to a 7A state title that fall. Seaborn powered Thompson to another state championship as a sophomore in 2024 and has already eclipsed 8,000 yards passing for his varsity career.

Sources tell ESPN that Alabama again is expected to pursue multiple quarterbacks in the 2027 cycle, seeking to add another passer alongside Seaborn in the program's 2027 class over the next year.

Among the Crimson Tide's other priority targets at the position is top-ranked quarterback Elijah Haven out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ESPN's No. 14 overall prospect in the ESPN Junior 300, Haven visited the Crimson Tide over the weekend and is expected to return again later this fall.

Led by top-30 defenders Jireh Edwards and Xavier Griffin, Alabama currently holds the No. 8 recruiting class in ESPN's rankings for the 2026 cycle. The fourth-ranked Crimson Tide are set to visit South Carolina in Week 9 (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC) riding six consecutive wins following the program's season-opening loss to Florida State on Aug. 30.

 

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After worst postseason loss in Alabama history, the Tide are on the wrong side of a 'fine line' under Kalen DeBoer

Alabama is now 20-8 since DeBoer succeeded Nick Saban

Somehow, Kalen DeBoer will now be under even more pressure from the Alabama fan base in 2026.

Alabama suffered its worst bowl defeat in program history in the Rose Bowl on Thursday. No. 1 Indiana throughly dismantled and demolished the No. 9 Crimson Tide, 38-3. Indiana had 407 total yards and 215 rushing yards while averaging 6.6 yards per play. Alabama had 193 yards. Total.

It was the third time in the last four games that Alabama’s offense averaged fewer than four yards per play. An explosive offense that was one of the nation’s best at the start of the season broke down at the end of the year — namely due to an inability to run the football.

Yes, Alabama cannot run the football. It’s a development that would seem just as impossible in 2023 as Indiana being the best team in football.

When he was hired to succeed Nick Saban, DeBoer was put in a nearly impossible position. He was tasked with attempting to replicate the success that Alabama had under the man who could be the greatest coach in college football history.

The Saban era ended on a botched QB run in overtime in the Rose Bowl. It was a whimper of an end for a coach who had led the Crimson Tide to six national championships and 16 straight seasons of double-digit wins.

Fast forward to Thursday, and Alabama wasn’t just beat, it was whooped. Not only was it the worst postseason loss in the 122-year history of Alabama football, Indiana’s win was the first time since the 1998 Music City Bowl that Alabama lost a game by more than 30 points.

“I know because I’ve been doing this long enough and I have experiences that I can fall back on that the fine line between what we had out there today and being at the very top is such a fine line,” DeBoer said. “And you’ve got to go back to starting over from scratch, putting the people around you, the right people, committing to something — a common goal together and the actions following it.”

“It’s such a fine line. It may not feel like it when you’re in this moment right now and what happened today, but I can tell you is it’s a fine line between being here and being at the top.”

When you include regular-season games, it was worst loss since the Tide fell 42-6 to Arkansas in 1998. That loss to Arkansas? It was the worst Alabama defeat since a 40-0 Iron Bowl drubbing all the way back in 1957 in a game that was 13 national championships ago.

Much of the offseason ahead of the 2025 season was dominated by Alabama’s exclusion from the first 12-team playoff in 2024. Last season, the 9-3 Tide — which laid an egg in the ReliaQuest Bowl against Michigan — lost 24-3 to Oklahoma in the penultimate weekend of the season to miss out on the playoff. But that didn’t stop a pressure campaign from the SEC because of the Tide’s exclusion. As a result, the College Football Playoff committee even said it was tweaking its selection processes to take strength of schedule more into account.

Never mind that Oklahoma finished the season at 6-7 and one of Alabama’s other losses came to a Vanderbilt team that finished 7-6.

This season, Alabama was given a lot of grace by the selection committee. The Tide lost 28-7 to Georgia in the SEC title game in a game that didn’t even feel that close. Alabama was No. 9 entering the game. Alabama was No. 9 a day later in the final CFP rankings as it became the first power conference title game loser to not drop a single solitary spot in the playoff rankings.

To be clear, hardly anyone thought this was an Alabama team capable of winning the national title, whether it was seeded No. 9, No. 10 or even failed to make the playoff. And that’s the crux of the problem. When was the last time that was said about a team coached by Saban? You probably have to go back to 2010, when Alabama finished 10-3 and went to the Capital One Bowl.

That was just the second of two three-loss seasons in Saban’s tenure. After Thursday, DeBoer’s record at Alabama is 20-8. It’s hard to see how another four-loss season is going to be tolerated.

"We can be upset because losing doesn’t sit well with us and we can frustrated about it," DeBoer said. "And that’s what our program is going to be is upset when these types of situations happen. And we’ve got to use it to fuel us moving forward.”

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