What could be ahead for Kalen DeBoer as he replaces Nick Saban? We talked to Jimbo Fisher, Lincoln Riley, Frank Solich and others to find out.
'Walking out of there, it was a weight lifted off my shoulders': Why Malachi Nelson sought a fresh start at Boise StateAlabama's Kalen DeBoer joins Marty & McGee to explain how his coaching background will prepare him for the upcoming season, along with some of the challenges he faced on that journey. In 2002, Zook was faced with the task of replacing one of the more transcendent football coaches in SEC history.
"I guess that's my legacy to coaching, the first guy to have a website dedicated to firing me," quipped Zook, now 70 and an analyst on Mike Locksley's staff at Maryland."They say coaches are hired to be fired. The difference with me is that I might have been fired at Florida the day I walked into my first press conference."
"There's only one person that's ever going to get to do that, to follow Coach Saban," DeBoer said."What a challenge, what an honor, what an opportunity."for Bill Snyder, who engineered one of the greatest turnarounds in college football history. Snyder was the K-State coach for 29 seasons and revived a program left for dead. Snyder's impact was immeasurable.
"And it was the worst freakin' offseason I've ever had," Klieman said."We beat Iowa that year and had a really good season, but we didn't win the national championship." "I don't think you can ever really prepare for it, going in behind somebody like Coach Snyder, but that's why I've always said from the day I got here that football is football," Klieman said."You've got to believe in your values and believe in what you're doing and get the staff behind you and get the players behind you. Kalen will do the same thing there at Alabama. It's still football, and Kalen knows football extremely well.
Solich led the Huskers to the Big 12 championship in his second season in 1999 and won 10 or more games three straight seasons. But in Year 5, the Huskers went 7-7, ending a streak of 40 straight winning seasons. Steve Pederson was hired as Nebraska's athletic director before Solich's sixth season, and it became obvious to many around the program that Pederson was looking for an opening to fire Solich and hire his own coach.
Solich, part of the 2024 College Football Hall of Fame class, went on to coach at Ohio University and ranked fourth for most victories among active FBS coaches at the time of his retirement in 2021. Given the high bar Spurrier had set, there wasn't a lot of patience around the program, and Zook lasted less than three seasons. But during that time, he was a very successful recruiter, as 21 of the 22 starters on Urban Meyer's national championship team with the Gators in 2006 were Zook recruits.
"Coach Bowden was there for me, but he wasn't there. He wasn't around physically," Fisher said."The relationship I had with him and the family was one that I knew I could pick up the phone and call him if I needed to, which I did, but he wasn't hovering and hanging around the program. He gave me the confidence when I took the job.It's well chronicled that Fisher and Saban have had their differences since their days of working together.
Joe Pendry, Saban's first offensive line coach at Alabama and one of Saban's closest confidants, used to refer to it as"having the stroke." "They see it as their chance to get back in," Fisher said."That was never going to happen with Nick, and DeBoer can't let it happen either.", the Broncos were 61-5 with two undefeated seasons and two Fiesta Bowl victories. So when Harsin replaced his old boss in 2014, he knew the stakes.
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