{"id":847895,"date":"2026-04-01T20:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/847895\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:57:15","slug":"kalen-deboer-closes-door-on-leaving-crimson-tide-after-michigan-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/847895\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalen DeBoer closes door on leaving Crimson Tide after Michigan interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview with On3, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/ncaa-football\/alabama-football-news-crimson-tide-moves-on-offensive-assistant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer set the record straight<\/a> on leaving the Crimson Tide as well as if he had interest in the Michigan job. Alabama under DeBoer had a solid 10-3 season in 2025 and beat Oklahoma in the opening round of the College Football Playoffs. But, their National Championship aspirations fell short after losing to Indiana in the Rose Bowl on January 1st.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/celebrity\/sherrone-moore-takes-plea-deal-in-home-invasion-case\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan job opened after the firing of Sherrone Moore<\/a>, DeBoer was rumored to be a prime candidate. DeBoer knew the Wolverines had an interest in him but says no conversations about the job took place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never talked to anyone, not one time,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/alabama-kalen-deboer-plans-on-being-here-for-a-while-and-wasnt-running-away-after-just-two-years-with-crimson-tide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he told<\/a> On3. \u201cI just don\u2019t know how you could live with yourself and look into your players\u2019 eyes if you\u2019re looking at other opportunities in the midst of the season and getting ready for a playoff game and hopefully making a run at a national championship.<\/p>\n<p>He then further reaffirmed that he is committed to building a legacy at Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it was a pretty easy decision not to engage with them. I didn\u2019t come here to follow Coach Saban only to turn around after two years and go somewhere else. I mean, this is Alabama. I\u2019m at an amazing place. That\u2019s the way I was looking at it. I chose to be here. I love the support and love our players and love the direction and everything the staff has done to put the pieces together here over the last two years. A lot of heavy lifting\u2019s been done to get us to this point.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that DeBoer is in it for the long haul and is determined to bring the Crimson Tide back to championship contention in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with On3, Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer set the record straight on leaving the Crimson Tide as well as if he had interest in the Michigan job.  Alabama under DeBoer had a solid 10-3 season in 2025 and beat Oklahoma in the opening round of the College Football Playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a recent interview with On3, Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer set the record straight on leaving the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,4842,580,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-847895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-kalen-deboer","10":"tag-michigan-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116331455689699924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}