Jumbo Package: Kalen DeBoer speaks on CFP, Ryan Coleman-Willams
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Happy Gump Day, everyone. Kalen DeBoer spoke at SEC spring meetings, and covered a wide range of topics. He isn’t terribly concerned one way or another about playoff expansion, he just wants to win ballgames.
“Twelve, 16 and 24 seem to be the most popular, right?” DeBoer told reporters at SEC spring meetings.
But a number is not what DeBoer is focused on as he heads into his third season with the Crimson Tide.
“For me, it’s really not about numbers,” DeBoer said. “It’s about just trying to win every football game so we don’t have to put it in a committee’s hands. That’s our goal as a program at Alabama.”
That’s what we like to hear. Now let’s see it.
Count DeBoer among those who want to keep the SEC Championship Game.
In a College Football Playoff world, one where a single loss can make or break a postseason berth, Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer is on board with the active importance of a SEC Championship Game.
“I think that our team really felt strong about winning it when you’re in that moment,” DeBoer said Tuesday, May 26 at SEC spring meetings. “Looking back on it, there are some things that were just a struggle, when you look at kind of where the team was at physically, whether it’s before or after. But that’s part of it. Our opponent, Georgia, had the same situation. They did a better job, obviously, of being ready for that game.”
Sure they felt strongly about winning it, but it’s still a misfit with this format. When you’re using tiebreakers most years to determine who gets to play, among teams that didn’t all play one another, the game just doesn’t make much sense.
Kalen also continued to sing the praises of Ryan Coleman-Williams.
Kalen DeBoer didn’t check the weight room every single day during May, but when he did, he felt like he saw Ryan Coleman-Williams there every time.
“He’s doing the work behind the scenes,“ DeBoer told a few reporters at SEC spring meetings in Miramar Beach, Florida. ”It’s silent right now because no one is really paying attention and it’s summer time. The guy is grinding. He wants it bad. He’s the ultimate competitor.”
We’ve said it often this offseason, but the defense should be outstanding. If Ryan and Ced Morgan are the real deal along with Lotzeir Brooks, and Keelon is ready for prime time, this team can beat anyone in the nation.
Bryant-Denny ranks as the 8th largest venue in North America, in case you were wondering.
World Atlas reported that Bryant-Denny Stadium currently has a capacity of 100,077 following a 2020 renovation that reduced the venue’s previously listed capacity of 101,821 to create additional premium seating and fan amenities.
Recently, country music star Morgan Wallen sold out the stadium on April 18, the venue’s first concert since Alabama performed after the A-Day spring game in 1992.
During the 2025 football season, seven Crimson Tide home games were sold out.
Trent Seaborn will likely take a redshirt next year, but he won’t be bored on the sideline.
The 2027 Alabama football quarterback commit is “one of the biggest Lego geeks around, his father, Jason, says, someone who’s built everything from replica Alabama football helmets and Bryant-Denny Stadium to Thanos’ glove and the RV from “Breaking Bad.”
For Trent, it’s bigger than a reprieve from reality. He’s building something slowly, brick by brick, until that last Lego goes in and he can admire his creation.
“It’s kind of like football,” Seaborn told The Tuscaloosa News. “Day in and day out, you’re working, and you go through your workouts. And one day, you’re probably thinking, ‘Man, I don’t see any progress.’ But you stack those days on top of each other and you can build your own legacy.”
Classmate Elijah Haven got all the hype, but this kid is a winner.
You will no longer have to hear whining from other leagues about the SEC’s cupcake weekend in November.
“That’s the end of cupcake weekend,” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey joked. “We never got that one sponsored, though.”
SEC leaders have discussed moving away from late-season “cupcake” games for the last several months, Sankey said. The conference is set to expand its conference schedule from eight to nine games with the upcoming season, making it crucial for the SEC to capitalize with bigger games later in the schedule.
“It’s nine conference games and a recognition that you’re populating more weekends,” Sankey said. “And so you really cannot have odd numbers of open or non-conference dates later in the season because then that has a backward domino effect in where you place games early. We ran into some of that in the ’26 season.”
Last, Kirby Smart set off a firestorm with this remark.
“I’ve said this for a long time to our president,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “If we can’t find rules that everybody plays by, then we should play by our own.”
And then, as the first day of the SEC spring meetings in this Gulf Coast resort town ramped up, Smart left a stink bomb the size of the state of Texas for all of college sports to deal with.
“I’m not afraid to break away and say that our conference is strong enough to go out and play,” he said.
So, Kirby is in favor of southern secession. That tracks.
That’s about it for now. Have a great day.
Roll Tide.
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