ESPN describes its “How Alabama moved from Nick Saban to Kalen DeBoer in 49 hours” as “the inside story”. That’s Trumpian-like self promoting. Say it enough and maybe some of the knuckleheads will believe it.

This knucklehead is calling bullshit. A close reading of the “inside story” suggests DeBoer was Alabama’s second choice. An “inside story” would establish that fact more definitively.

A much more problematic example of superficial analysis is accepting at face value that DeBoer hit the ground running at the University of Washington after returning from the National Championship game. That while he guessed some programs would be interested in him given his success, he wasn’t thinking about any other job. If that’s true, why did he turn down $9m mid-season, $4.8m more than his $4.2m salary? Rule one, don’t insult the reader’s intelligence.

The most laughable part of the “inside story” is the fact that DeBoer openly admits to texting his players about how he feels about them while on the plane home from the National Championship. Maybe DeBoer just looks 49, maybe he’s really 19?

His texting of feelings fits perfectly with his sprinting out of town immediately after the Alabama offer. The final chapter for the University of Washington players that was left out of the “inside story”.