Player Transfers Have Upended College Football Coaching Carousel

As the college football hiring cycle takes a late-but-massive spin into January, one eternal truth is more stark now than ever: one program’s need becomes another program’s wreckage.

Alabama needed a coach, so it pillaged Washington for savior Kalen DeBoer—and a good portion of his staff, and probably a few players. Coming less than a week after losing the national championship, and on the heels of multiple star players declaring for the NFL draft, and with star transfer quarterback Will Rogers re-entering the portal, Huskies fans were devastated. One of the best seasons in school history crumbled to dust in a week.

DeBoer is likely to bring a few of his Washington players to Tuscaloosa as well.

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