Grades at Alabama, Michigan & more for first year head coaches

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

How would you grade Kalen DeBoer at Alabama after a 9-4 season? What about Sherrone Moore at Michigan and Mike Elko at Texas A&M? McElroy looks back at 2024 and grades out all of the first year head coaches based on the transfer portal impacts, win loss record, big wins & more. Plus Penn State hires Jim Knowles from Ohio State, making him college football's highest-paid defensive coordinator. Are the Nittany Lions gearing up for a National Title run in 2025? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	But this was a significant uptick in scrutiny and the microscope that he would have to operate under.
0:42.3	So while everybody praised the hire for sure, there was a certain level of skepticism.
0:50.3	Hello and welcome in. It is always college football. Today is Monday, January 27th.
0:53.3	And I'm your host, Greg McElroy. We appreciate you being here.
0:57.0	We have a very interesting show for you today. We're going to go back through and revisit all the
1:04.4	first year coaches from this past season. We're going to give them a couple of different marks.
1:10.0	We're going to go through what it was
1:11.4	like when they were hired, what happened after they were hired, basically the portal impact of
1:17.7	what their team might look like. We'll take it through the season, then we'll give you an overall
1:22.2	great. So a lot that we need to go through today and a few things that I need to explain before we dive in to
1:29.2	these coaches assessment. Before I do that, kindly ask all of you to subscribe to the show,
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2:04.5	up. That's fine. Either way, but we appreciate you being here. A couple things that I need to make
2:09.5	sure that you understand. Our coaching grades on our show are going to be a little different from
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