Hot Seat Alert: The Future of Three Coaches Across the SEC

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00:00I think there's three head coaches that have their backs on the wall, against the wall, and are on the hot seat.

00:06Want to get your take.

00:07The first one is Kalen DeBoer in Alabama.

00:10Great first season at 9-3, but they missed out on the college football playoffs.

00:14Hugh Freeze in Auburn and Brian Kelly in LSU.

00:17I think all three of those seats are hot, Coach.

00:20What are your thoughts about all three head coaches?

00:23Yeah, those are the three big marquee names.

00:25There's a couple of other coaches in the conference that are definitely in the hot seat,

00:28but those are the biggest ones.

00:30And let me say this about Kalen DeBoer.

00:32You're always on the hot seat at Alabama, always.

00:36You're compared to Bear Bryant, and you're compared to Nick Saban.

00:39Both guys won six national championships, Alabama, over 80% of their football games,

00:44and you're compared every year.

00:46So can Kalen DeBoer win eight or nine or ten games and keep himself there?

00:50If you don't play for a championship and win championships, eventually it's going to happen.

00:55And remember, the hot seat at Alabama is different.

00:58There were seven coaches between Bear Bryant and Nick Saban.

01:02All of them left.

01:03Four of them left on their own with winning seasons after two to four years

01:07because the pressure was so much.

01:09They could never make people happy.

01:11The other three got fired, four left on their own, and they finally got to Nick Saban.

01:15That's where Kalen DeBoer is.

01:17So you don't have to get it all this year, but if you don't, it's just going to make it tougher on you

01:21because eventually you've got to win it all at Alabama more than any other school in the country.

01:26And it starts week one against the Florida State Seminoles.

01:30They're a 13-and-a-half point favorite.

01:32We'll see how that game plays out.

01:33But a couple of, you know, factors in that game, Coach.

01:36Jan Miller, their starting running back, will be out with a broken collarbone.

01:41They don't have their starting running back to start against the Seminoles.

01:44So we'll see how that plays out.

01:46And I said this about Kalen DeBoer, 9-3 is a fantastic season anywhere but Alabama.

01:52When the expectation is to win a college football national championship

01:57and get to a college football playoff appearance, it's almost like coaching the New York Yankees.

02:02It's go big or go home, right?

02:04And the same thing, you know, in other schools as well.

02:07I will say this about Hugh Freeze, and I do want to get this take from the coaching perspective.

02:13Hugh Freeze made his mark back at Liberty with a mobile quarterback, Malik Willis, Caden Salter,

02:20and then we saw him take over again, Auburn.

02:23But he didn't have a mobile quarterback.

02:25He had Peyton Thorne transfer in from Michigan State, more of a pocket passer.

02:30Now he gets Jackson Arnold from Oklahoma, mobile, but certainly not like Caden Salter or Malik Willis.

02:38Why is Hugh Freeze deviating from the offensive philosophy that he built with Liberty?

02:44Well, I think he had to go out and get a name of a quarterback, a quarterback with a name,

02:49a quarterback that was a great high school recruit.

02:52Everybody wanted him.

02:54And so there's a big upside to him.

02:56There are those that think offensive scheme is what hurt him, not his talent at Oklahoma.

03:01That is what is yet to be seen.

03:04But I think Hugh clearly knows he had to make a good decision because the quarterback problem was terrible.

03:10Everything problem they had was around the quarterback situation there.

03:14So that one's got to work, and I don't know that it has.

03:18In fact, I saw this week where he came out and said, I might play three quarterbacks the first game.

03:23If you're playing three quarterbacks, then you haven't answered your questions yet.

03:26And that one scares you, but Jackson Arnold needs to be the guy.

03:30He needs to have a great year.

03:32Hugh Freeze has based his future on that, and he's got to hope he made that right decision.

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