Is Kalen DeBoer already on the hot seat? Paul Finebaum says Alabama fans are already turning up the heat.
On Sunday’s episode of The Matt Barrie Show, the ESPN and longtime SEC personalities discussed an eventful Saturday in college football. Towards the end of the show, they took questions, and one of them asked which coach had found his way into a warmer seat this year.
Finebaum believes it’s none other than DeBoer.
“Well, there’s an endless list of those but to me, it’s probably DeBoer,” Finebaum said.
He then clarified that he didn’t equate “hot seat” to “losing his job,” but rather that his stock has rapidly descended.
“I don’t mean costing himself a job. I’m just saying if you’re looking at Kalen DeBoer as a stock price? Before the season, it’s like sky high. They had to stop trading on Kalen DeBoer, to go Wall Street on you, at Midnight two weeks ago. And now? It’s like on the penny stocks market,” he explained.
Finebaum said that DeBoer is “turning Alabama fans off.” When Barrie asked Finebaum if it was that bad, Finebaum said it was.
“I realize he could turn it around and go 11-1 and still win. There’s something about it,” he said. “I thought there was a bottom for him at Alabama. When that game looked to be going into overtime, the bottom just got broken. I’m sure I’ll be accused of piling on—the shots at his clothes. There’s no filter around him. Yesterday, I read a local columnist who said, ‘beating South Carolina was worse than the Vanderbilt loss.’ It doesn’t make sense, but I could pick an obscure coach that like nobody cares about like Mike Locksley… but that’s a waste of our time. Kalen DeBoer came into the season one of the top five coaches in the country?”
A harsh truth, but probably a fair one until Alabama figures it out.
