{"id":1184432,"date":"2026-07-22T12:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1184432"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:57:21","slug":"deboer-says-he-knows-he-will-be-evaluated-on-national-titles-at-media-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/deboer-says-he-knows-he-will-be-evaluated-on-national-titles-at-media-days\/","title":{"rendered":"DeBoer Says He Knows He Will Be Evaluated on National Titles at Media Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Crimson Tide\u00a0head\u00a0coach Kalen DeBoer\u00a0took a job with perhaps the most pressure in the nation following the retirement of his\u00a0predecessor Nick Saban, and that pressure is not lost on him.<\/p>\n<p>Through the first two years of his administration in Tuscaloosa, to say the results have been up and down would be an understatement. With countless ranked wins but a significant number of poor losses as well including some very ugly performances, DeBoer knows it has not been good enough. National titles are the expectation at Alabama, and he was asked this week at SEC Media Days whether or not he thinks that is how his tenure will be evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, it\u2019s not lost on him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Will Kalen DeBoer&#8217;s time at Alabama be defined by whether or not he wins a national championship?<\/p>\n<p>Kalen DeBoer: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t doubt if that&#8217;s the case.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hJhDttPH6o\">pic.twitter.com\/hJhDttPH6o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Next Round (@NextRoundLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NextRoundLive\/status\/2079939208639029659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI certainly know that that\u2019s an important part of what\u2019s happened in the program, so I wouldn\u2019t doubt if that\u2019s the case,\u201d DeBoer said with a smile when asked if he believes whether or not he wins a title will be what defines his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>He did go on to give a Saban-esque answer about not being focused on the bigger goals but rather the day-to-day process of what it takes to achieve those goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not focused on that,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m focused on helping our program be the best and trying to bring out the best and raise the level of everyone around me from coaching staff to our players trying to maximize what we are capable of every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeBoer was brought in after Saban\u2019s retirement to keep the program on top of the sport, and while he has not done that to this point, he is going to continue to take the steps towards making that happen on a daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Alabama Crimson Tide\u00a0head\u00a0coach Kalen DeBoer\u00a0took a job with perhaps the most pressure in the nation following the retirement of his\u00a0predecessor Nick Saban, and that pressure <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/deboer-says-he-knows-he-will-be-evaluated-on-national-titles-at-media-days\/\" title=\"DeBoer Says He Knows He Will Be Evaluated on National Titles at Media Days\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1183800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,91,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1184432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crimson-tide-bama-tide","8":"category-alabama","9":"category-featured-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5062601010270tc_rosebowl.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184433,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184432\/revisions\/1184433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}