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Alabama<\/a> coach Kalen DeBoer has one of college football’s largest buyouts<\/a> this season at approximately $63 million following a multi-year contract he signed in January 2024 to succeed Nick Saban with the Crimson Tide.<\/p>\n No. 8 Bama’s 31-17 loss to Florida State<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday was DeBoer’s third in his last four games<\/a> with the Crimson Tide and his fifth overall only 14 games into his tenure. DeBoer was hired as Saban’s successor after a 25-3 run at Washington<\/a>, highlighted by a Pac-12 title and berth in the national championship game two seasons ago against Michigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kalen DeBoer not up to standard of following Nick Saban: ‘You have to be a different breed to survive’<\/p>\n \n John Talty <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n If DeBoer is fired “without cause,” he would earn 90% of his remaining deal in monthly installments\u00a0through the end of his contract term<\/a>. He’s currently eight months into the second year of his deal, which would mean his buyout if he’s fired during the regular season is just about $63 million (90% of the remaining amount). If he’s fired on Dec. 1, 2025, it would be approximately $60 million.<\/p>\n DeBoer’s contract with the Crimson Tide was negotiated by superagent Jimmy Sexton. The deal include numerous escalators and bonus opportunities — reaching the SEC Championship Game, winning the conference, appearing in the College Football Playoff — but none of those parameters were met in his first season.<\/p>\n In 2024, Alabama started 4-0 before suffering a shocking defeat to Vanderbilt<\/a>. The Tide later lost on the road to Tennessee<\/a> and Oklahoma<\/a>, finishing the season 9-3 and missing out on the 12-team College Football Playoff. DeBoer’s group then fell to a depleted Michigan team 19-13 in the ReliaQuest Bowl.\u00a0<\/p>\n DeBoer signed the nation’s fourth-best recruiting class<\/a> for 2025, including the addition of three five-stars highlighted by quarterback Keelon Russell<\/a>. However, it was veteran signal caller Ty Simpson<\/a> who got the nod from DeBoer and offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb in the opener against the Seminoles after winning the job in camp over Austin Mack<\/a> and the freshman.<\/p>\n Expectations were sky-high for the Crimson Tide entering the season, but Saturday’s defeat to the Seminoles as 14-point favorites was a shocking — and potentially costly — setback for DeBoer.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer has one of college football’s largest buyouts this season at approximately $63…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[79380,79379,1603,79382,1607,8940,399,79378,79377,79381,1777,398,396,397,6344,99,19501,79383,17358,3350],"class_list":["post-123970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-alabama-coach-buyout","tag-alabama-coach-contract","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-austin-mack","tag-college-football","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-football","tag-kalen-deboer-buyout","tag-kalen-deboer-contract","tag-keelon-russell","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-sports","tag-tennessee-volunteers","tag-ty-simpson","tag-vanderbilt-commodores","tag-washington-huskies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kalen](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/deboerbama-pg.jpg\")
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