Seriously some of y’all need to just wait a few years to write the book on Deboer.
The old way of thinking was that coaching tenures were judged on 4-year cycles. NIL and the general shortening of the American attention span has cut that to 3 years, sometimes even 2.
But it's definitely not 5 weeks, nor will it ever be anything that short.
After putting up the recap, I had a discussion with someone about Wommack and the lack of D adjustments. Going back to our preseason articles, I said then that in my experience, any SEC team changing O or D systems was good for an extra loss in a year above whatever their par was supposed to be. Alabama is changing both. I thought we might slide by after Georgia week but it's probably not going to work out that way. I had us 10-2 in the preseason and that's par, I think.
Specific to Wommack -- because defense is where the problem is, not offense -- what we see over the next month will tell a lot. Bama has 3 choices: change the scheme mid-season (risky even under optimum conditions, but it has been done; South Carolina changed a lot of theirs on the fly in '23), wait until year's end to replace guys who don't fit the new scheme, or manage the adjustments in a way that smooths the transition over a bit and lean on the offense. I think we're going to take the third option. And how well we do it probably informs the discussion of D staffing going into 2025. I'd love to be a fly on the wall for coaches' film review tomorrow but I won't get to do that.
Bottom line, this was always going to be a transition. We got fooled a bit last week thinking we could get around it, but we can't and that's that.
