{"id":438697,"date":"2026-01-30T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438697\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:41:31","slug":"alabama-football-kalen-deboer-talks-ol-coach-portal-additions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438697\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama football: Kalen DeBoer talks OL coach, portal additions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cOf course coming behind Saban, he\u2019s going to be held to that standard,\u201d said Keenan, who played for both coaches. \u201cBut coach DeBoer is great is in his own way. He got guys to go through a lot of adversity. The record doesn\u2019t show the things we\u2019ve been through and the things we overcame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">DeBoer is 20-8 over his two seasons in Tuscaloosa. It has included highs of big wins against ranked teams such as Georgia twice and wins over rivals LSU and Auburn in back to back years as well as a win over Tennessee. But there have also been lows such as the season-opening loss to Florida State in 2025 and losses in games Alabama entered as the favorite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">DeBoer now heads into a pivotal third season leading the Crimson Tide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI don\u2019t have a bad thing to say about coach DeBoer at all,\u201d said Keenan, a 2025 captain. \u201cI love him. He was very good to me. A great leader. Of course at the end of the day, he\u2019s human. I was able to pick my coach up when he was able to pick me up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOf course coming behind Saban, he\u2019s going to be held to that standard,\u201d said Keenan, who played for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[207107,35956,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-438697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide-basketball","9":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide-football","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438697","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=438697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}