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Kalen DeBoer weighs in on whether or not Year 1 was a success at Alabama
By Adam Spencer
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Kalen DeBoer and the Alabama Crimson Tide suffered a 19-13 loss to Michigan in the ReliaQuest Bowl on Tuesday.
It was a disappointing effort from the Tide, especially during a horrendous first half. Kalen DeBoer took some heat on social media after Alabama’s first 4-loss season since Nick Saban‘s first year in Tuscaloosa back in 2007.
What should be taken away from this loss? Was Year 1 a success for DeBoer?
He was asked that question during his postgame press conference. Here’s what he had to say:
Every time you’re in the locker room and you have something like this, it’s disappointing, but I think there’s a lot of things that you take from it. I know that the guys that hung in there, that probably played their last game in the crimson and white, they wouldn’t have had it any other way as far as to show the grit, show the determination, show the competitiveness. They stayed the course.
“There’s a whole lot more that really goes into the last 12 months. People see what happens on a Saturday, but it’s guys choosing to stay here, guys choosing to go from one week to the next when you’re on a little bit of a roller coaster through the middle of the season, and as long as we learn from it, then to me, then it can be a success moving forward.
“We’re going to take all these things that happened, and there’s some things that happened in the game today, too, that we’ve got to learn from and make sure that those mistakes don’t hurt us a year from now. I don’t care if it’s turnovers, penalties. It’s everything. So to me, it’s a success if we move forward and we take advantage of the lessons, even though we don’t want to learn those lessons sometimes, right, because they’re hard. We’re going to learn from those lessons, move forward, and be better next year because of it.
Check out DeBoer’s full press conference below:
Adam is a daily fantasy sports (DFS) and sports betting expert. A 2012 graduate of the University of Missouri, Adam now covers all 16 SEC football teams. He is the director of DFS, evergreen and newsletter content across all Saturday Football brands.
