Good News: Alabama Football Announces Kalen DeBoer’s…

Alabama Football’s mission of replacing Nick Saban will be nearly difficult, but the Crimson Tide don’t seem to think Kalen DeBoer will be the best long-term solution. It was revealed on Monday that DeBoer’s contract’s final details, which comprise the following, had been finalized:

contract with an expiration date of December 31, 2031, for eight years
The compensation in year one will be $10 million, and in the last year of the deal, it will progressively rise to $11,750,000.
In 2024, the buyout will be $5 million, followed by $4 million in 2025, $3 million in 2026, and $0 following bonuses of up to $875,000 for winning a national championship.
With the deal, DeBoer will rank as the fourth-highest paid coach in the country, after Steve Spurlock of Texas, Kirby Smart of Georgia, and Dabo Swinney of Clemson.

Alabama was going to pay its next head coach a lot of money regardless of who they hired. The last thing they wanted to do following Nick Saban’s departure was hold back on money and send the message that they weren’t necessarily confident in the new head coach. Giving DeBoer a contract with a total value of $87 million sends fans a strong message that Alabama is confident that they will continue to be a dominant force in the SEC and college football as a whole.

However, unlike other schools that have made massive deals (Texas A&M) that didn’t meet expectations but were left with a massive buyout, the Crimson Tide have structured the deal to cost them only $12 million at worst, but realistically only $7 million since the Tide won’t be firing DeBoer before the end of one season.