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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Kalen DeBoer on Alabama expectations, the QB Competition & more | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Kalen DeBoer talks with Greg McElroy about where the Alabama program is heading into the 2026 season, what he has learned about being the head coach at Alabama, the quarterback competition, the growth of the offensive line, why Ezavier Crowell will be a player to watch this fall and much more. Plus, McElroy breaks down the Presidential College Sports Reform Committee’s 8 proposals and tells you what loves and hates about them and if they can actually be implemented. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.3

Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. I'm your host, Greg McElroy. Glad to have you here with us today.

0:51.0

Two things happen this week in college football, and they deserve your full

0:54.7

attention. They do. The first, the presidential college sports reform committee, they dropped their

1:02.8

draft, a three-phase overhaul of every structural problem this sport has been dealing with for the last few years.

1:12.3

They're introducing coaching salary caps.

1:14.8

They're doing a group of six playoffs.

1:16.9

They're talking about pooling media rights.

1:19.4

They're talking about the bird rule for the transfer portal.

1:23.5

It's either the most ambitious intervention we've seen in the history of college sports,

1:28.8

or it's just a whiteboard exercise that gets blocked immediately and forgotten by Labor Day.

1:34.2

But we will go through every single idea.

1:37.6

I'm going to tell you all exactly what I think.

1:39.8

But first, we're going to sit down with the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide.

1:43.7

Kailin DeBore is in year number three in trying to rebuild one of the most scrutinized programs in the entire country.

1:49.9

He's coming off an 11 and 4 season that ended in a blowout loss in the Rose Bowl.

1:55.4

He's staring at a quarterback competition that is a competition in every sense of the word and an October schedule that's

2:02.4

going to be really challenging.

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