re: Great hire for LSU and CBK

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Like they did with Gene Stallings in 1990.
Or LSU did with Saban in 2000?
Or UF did Urban Meyer in 2005?

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The guy just played for a National Championship. In getting there he defeated a (soon to be) SEC program (Texas). He took over a good program in Washington in 2022 that had started to regress. He then went 25-3 (including a 21 game winning streak) and played for a National Championship in year 2. Prior to that he was solid at Fresno St. and was a multi-time national championship winning HC at a lower level. Simply put, he's won everywhere he's been.

Will he be as dominant as Saban? Unlikely. But you could say that about ANY HC Alabama could have hired outside of Kirby Smart. Hell, Deboer's teams have played in as many national championship game as Brian Kelly's. And Kelly was at one of the most prestigious programs in the history of college football for a decade.

Who knows how he will perform at Alabama...but I wouldn't be throwing stones just yet. Particularly after LSU's current HC completely wasted the second best offense in school history led by a Heisman Trophy winning QB