The Alabama Crimson Tide lacked its traditional intimidation consider its loss to the Florida State Seminoles on Saturday, and head coach Kalen DeBoer made an trustworthy admission about his crew after the sport.
Alabama, ranked No. 8 within the Related Press preseason ballot, was dominated from begin to end by unranked Florida State. The consequence was a surprising 31-17 Seminoles victory, which left many individuals questioning whether or not Alabama’s school soccer dominance had actually come to an finish with Nick Saban’s retirement.
DeBoer, who’s in his second season as the top coach of the Crimson Tide, known as the loss to Florida State “irritating.” He additionally questioned whether or not Alabama has an incredible crew this 12 months.
“I do know now we have an excellent crew. I do not know if now we have an incredible crew,” DeBoer informed CTSN, by way of Mike Rodak of 247 Sports activities. “Clearly we misplaced immediately, so we bought loads to show to actually persuade folks of that, together with ourselves.”
Florida State gained simply two video games final season. Alabama went 9-3 earlier than being omitted of the School Soccer Playoff after which misplaced to Michigan within the ReliaQuest Bowl. The loss to Florida State on Saturday was the Tide’s fourth to an unranked opponent since final 12 months.
“It is a lengthy season. We clearly put ourselves behind the eight ball right here and made it actually difficult,” DeBoer added. “There’s so many good gamers that I simply know so long as we will preserve the entire thing collectively — which I actually select to consider the character of this group, that it’ll, and the grit of the leaders stepping up and simply persevering with to forge forward. We bought an opportunity tomorrow to get higher. I do know it sucks having that occur after a loss, however right here we’re. It is the second we’re in and all we will do is management that.”
DeBoer had huge footwear to fill at Alabama, and the strain will solely mount after he started the 2025 season with a loss to a non-conference opponent.
