ESPN SEC Network personality says Kalen DeBoer has taken Hugh Freeze off hot seat

Oct 26, 2024; Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Kalen DeBoer walks along the field during warmups before a game against the Missouri Tigers at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Will McLelland-Imagn Images

Alabama football’s head coach Kalen DeBoer is facing heavy criticism after the Crimson Tide lost to Florida State in its season opener.

Alabama is now in 0-1 for the first time since 2001 after they entered the season with some high expectations. This is why Paul Finebaum feels DeBoer is firmly sitting in the hot seat after losing three of his last four games.

“When you start to think about Georgia at the end of September, road trips to Missouri and South Carolina, home games against LSU and Tennessee and Oklahoma and a road game at the end of the year at Auburn, Who would have thought in the state of Alabama, before we even get to September 1st, that Hugh Freeze is off the hot seat and Kalen DeBoer is on the hot seat?” Finebaum said on “The Matt Barrie Show.”

Alabama has a lot of things it needs to fix fast if it wants to right the ship.

The Tide make their home debut on Saturday against Louisiana Monroe.

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