🚨 Alabama taps Washington's Kalen DeBoer to replace Nick Saban as the Crimson Tide head coach (01/12) 🚨
Cover 3 College Football
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4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew reacts to the breaking news of Alabama hiring Washington's Kalen DeBoer. First, general reactions to the hire and first thoughts on what made DeBoer an attractive candidate to the Crimson Tide, plus the most important challenges he has in his first weeks and months on the job. Then, what we learned from the coaching search including the new deals for Steve Sarkisian at Texas and Mike Norvell at Florida State, as well as potential candidates for Washington as it looks for a new head coach.
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| 0:51.2 | As we gather here Friday afternoon. Here's where we have it according to all the |
| 0:58.4 | latest reporting. I mean we've got Brandon Marcello on it. We've got Matt Zenitz on it and it is that Alabama and |
| 1:04.9 | Kalin de Boer as of 244 p.m. Eastern time are in negotiations on a deal which |
| 1:11.2 | would make Kalin de Boer Alabama's next head coach the successor to Nick Sabin in Tuscaloosa. |
| 1:17.0 | Again, the deal is not final, final. |
| 1:20.0 | You know, our headline here on YouTube is in talks, but Bud, we know the way this game works when reporters |
| 1:27.3 | AB, when we're all in line with the marching orders and as of right now could be final as soon as today sure looks |
| 1:36.1 | like we've landed on Caitlin de Boer as the replacement at Alabama your your thoughts as we've worked our way through the problem. |
| 1:44.6 | Let's get to like how we got here later. |
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