{"id":475764,"date":"2024-01-12T19:32:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T23:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=475764"},"modified":"2024-01-12T19:32:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T23:32:16","slug":"washingtons-deboer-agrees-to-become-next-alabama-manager","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/washingtons-deboer-agrees-to-become-next-alabama-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington&#8217;s DeBoer agrees to become next Alabama manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington&#8217;s Kalen DeBoer, who led the Huskies to a Pac-12 title and a place in the College Football Playoff National Championship match this past campaign, has agreed to become Alabama&#8217;s next boss.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kalen DeBoer really worked his way up from coaching high school kids in South Dakota to being named Nick Saban&#39;s successor at Alabama \u2014 and becoming one of the country&#39;s highest-paid coaches in the process \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/50XWI9kiI9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/50XWI9kiI9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoePompliano\/status\/1745894099360559288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He informed the Huskies today that he is leaving his post to become Bama\u2019s new manager, and it is expected that everything will become official very soon.<\/p>\n<p>DeBoer will replace legendary Nick Saban, whose schools won 9 SEC championships and 6 National Titles in his 17 years in college football. Nick, who had a 206-29 record at Alabama, retired two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Washington athletic director Troy Dannen tried everything possible to keep Kalen at his current position, offering him a new deal that would make him 1 of the 10 highest-paid managers in college football and double his current annual salary of over 4 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>DeBoer will owe Washington a 12-million-dollar buyout if he quits. Kalen inked a 2-year deal extension through the 2028 campaign a few months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington&#8217;s Kalen DeBoer, who led the Huskies to a Pac-12 title and a place in the College Football Playoff National Championship match this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":475765,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19147,19523],"news_category":[16705],"gn_keywords":[19743,19525,22545],"acf":{"announce":"Kalen gave the green light to become Bama\u2019s new head coach.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475767,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475764\/revisions\/475767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475764"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=475764"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=475764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}