He’ll have to bring in assistants that can recruit at a much higher level than where Washington is at right now. You can’t get away with it in the SEC if you’re outgunned every week.
That was my thought. Is he going to recruit well enough? DeBoer is a scheme guy, not so much a big time recruiter. He'll have to bring in some dirty, recruiting SOBs if he wants to win at the Alabama expectation level.
A lot out there about high school recruits taking an NIL discount to go play for Saban. They won't do that for him. So Bama will have to get the NIL machine working in the right direction.
The other fascinating part of this to me is...a lot of big money guys have sat on the sideline with zero say because what are they gonna do? Go against Nick Fucking Saban? I don't think this is as turnkey as one might think. Don't get me wrong, DeBoer is a good caoch and Bama will win, but outside of his first year at Bama Saban only had 1 year where he lost more than 2 games. The Pac 12 was good this year. It still wasn't as good as the SEC.
Also, Saban has an office at the football stadium still? That's very Bill Snyder-esque. Wonder how that dynamic works. It's not at the football facility so he's not breathing down a new staff's neck but still.