{"id":789155,"date":"2026-07-28T11:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/789155\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:01:28","slug":"alabama-football-kalen-deboer-adds-4-star-edge-to-2028-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/789155\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama football: Kalen DeBoer adds 4-star EDGE to 2028 class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">During one of the SEC Media Days, Finebaum sat down with That SEC Podcast and dropped a tidbit about just how close Kalen DeBoer came to the edge. While recounting a trip to Tuscaloosa for the Tennessee game, Finebaum ran into a high-rolling Alabama booster early in the morning at the Capstone Hotel. That conversation exposed the sheer panic happening among the boosters, as they considered showing DeBoer the door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI ran into some fat cat at the hotel really early. We get out early because the show starts at 9, I think,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZSshSoE2YjY?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=website_internal&amp;utm_campaign=web_link_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Paul Finebaum said<\/a>. \u201cI didn\u2019t know him, but he was a major booster staying at the Capstone Hotel in Tuscaloosa. He said, \u2018You know, things were pretty grim after the Florida State loss!\u2019 I said, \u2018Really?\u2019 He said, \u2018Yeah. There were calls being made,\u2019 this is Day 1 of the season-Sunday morning. On Sunday morning, calls were being made like, \u2018What\u2019s it going to take, if this doesn\u2019t turn around for us, to buy DeBoer out?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During one of the SEC Media Days, Finebaum sat down with That SEC Podcast and dropped a tidbit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[35956,399,281396,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-789155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-football","tag-football","tag-jumbo-package","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789155","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=789155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}