Alabama officially hired Washington’s Kalen DeBoer as the program’s next head football coach, the university announced in a statement Friday.
“We are excited to welcome Kalen and Nicole DeBoer, and their daughters, Alexis and Avery, to The University of Alabama," Crimson Tide athletic director Greg Byrne said in a statement. "Coach DeBoer has proven he is a winner and has done an incredible job as a head coach at each of his stops.
“One of the things I told our team the other day is we are going to get someone who is not only a great coach with the Xs and Os, but also someone who cares about his players and someone I'd want my sons to play for, just like I would have wanted them to play for Coach Saban. We got that in Coach DeBoer.”
