Crimson Tide coach appeared on ‘Triple Option’ podcast Wednesday
Published: Sep. 25, 2024, 5:34 p.m.Appearing on “The Triple Option” podcast with Fox Sports’ Rob Stone, Mark Ingram and Urban Meyer, the Crimson Tide head coach was asked about how the decision was reached for him to leave Washington for Tuscaloosa. The Huskies played Michigan in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game on Monday, Jan. 8, then Alabama coach Nick Saban announced his retirement two days later.
“I think there’s rivalries for different reasons,” DeBoer said. “… You’ve got your in-state rivalry, and then you have the rivalries because you know that you’re playing for something at a high level. You know that this game — last year and past years — has meant national championship, conference championship, it’s meant a lot in those areas. And so, it’s a rivalry, if you want to call it that way, for those reasons, because there’s something at stake.
“I was excited to meet him,” DeBoer said. “When we were playing and getting ready to play the Sugar Bowl, and he was obviously on the field in the Rose Bowl, I remember walking by a TV, just going to the locker room, and I was with a couple other coaches, and seeing him make one play, and just passing and seeing it on the TV, one of our coaches goes, ‘Man, if we face him, that’s gonna be a problem.
DeBoer shares a background with Meyer not only in coaching teams to championships, but also in baseball. DeBoer was a star baseball player at the University of Sioux Falls , while Meyer was drafted out of Ashtabula High School in 1982 by the Atlanta Braves and spent two seasons playing in the minor leagues.
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