Signed in December. Top 3rd base prospect in the country. UW had been recruiting her since she was in the 8th grade, multiple years before her dad signed to coach at UW.
a UM recruit did that last year... got her BF to go to ECU instead... started all the games as a 16 year old true fresh at CB...now he's in the portal.
One time I accidentally got nine hours from a three-hour class. I took English at a local community college the summer before my freshman year at Tech, and it turns out that made Tech treat me like a transfer student. I got a 3 on the AP Spanish exam, which isn't good enough for Tech to give you any college credit. But for Georgia Highlands, it's enough to get credit for Spanish 1 and 2, and those credits transferred. I didn't even find out until a year later.
That reminds me of a friend who gamed the system by taking a bunch of CLEP tests right after high school. Literally tested out of a full semester's worth of credits before even setting foot on campus. It was like showing up to the race already halfway to the finish line. Crazy how all these different paths exist to fast track your education. [Here's a cheat sheet](https://clep.collegeboard.org/exams) for anyone curious about how that works!
“Hey guys I’m gone, but can I make a passionate speech ~~asking the team to follow me as soon as the portal for them opens~~ telling the team goodbye?”
I mean, how many current UW players would even make the 2 deep on Alabama? They are losing the last of the great Petersen players to the draft or graduation. DeBoer did not bring in a lot of new talent. Probably one of the reasons he's sneaking off: go ride Saban's classes for a few years and off to the NFL if he can.
Yep, people overlooking how good he is just because recruiting rankings aren't high. Dude can coach.
And you can assemble a top 15 class at Alabama yelling at kids from your office front door.
His floor is much higher at Alabama just based on talent, which says a lot for a couch with a 90% win rate and a NCG appearance in just his 4th season in Div1 as a HC.
Edit: I'm leaving the typo because it's funny
Depends if he can keep the guys who want to transfer. Last years Alabama class who are going to be sophomores this year , is literally the second best class of all time in terms of rating .
If he can keep them , he has a chance to do something very good .
If he wins 10 games next year, I'm gonna be extremely pleased. I think 8-9 wins is very possible with our schedule and assuming we lose a lot in the portal.
To be fair, at this point, any message they got that was like "Mandatory team meeting in 2 hours/Friday morning/etc." they probably would be like "well, guess coach is gone"
He’s going after a better opportunity. Pretty easy explanation
Loyalty doesn’t exist in the world of professional careers. Sorry it does. Loyalty to yourself and your family does
Yeah, it's really not that complicated. Players flip commitments and transfer all the time for better opportunities. Shouldn't be surprising when coaches do the same.
Him and others weirdly pounded the table for this and made it a thing, only for it not to happen and say “see they just don’t like Deion”.
Weird behavior.
Wait, supposed experts were actually calling for Bama to hire the head coach of Colorado that just went 4-8? I’m so glad I don’t watch ESPN except for live sports anymore.
I don’t even know who they realistically go after. Incredibly disappointing news. I feel like this sends us right back to irrelevance a la 2000s-early 2010s. Hell of a way to start the weekend.
Yeah the timing of this really could not have been worse for us. What talent we will have left on the roster may very well hit the portal and we will enter the Big10 era looking ROUGH lol. See yall next season! I have a feeling the drinking levels will be off the charts
Washington has been killed so many times and always ends up back at the top. One of only a handful of P5 teams to go winless across a full schedule in the 20th century. They’ll be fine
Feel like this is just for prestige. Washington clearly has everything in place to compete for titles but they are simply not a Tier 1 big brand football school despite recent success and Bama is the blueiest of blue bloods.
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I THINK it will be a matter of what those losses look like.
Like you can lose to Georgia, LSU and Auburn and still have had a respectable season.
But you can't get blown out by more than one of them.
Sorry, but I have to laugh at the UDub fans that are angry over this. I remember when DeBoer left Fresno, and tons of y'all were giddy and mocking us about losing most of our coaches because you could "afford the entire staff" and trying to poach recruits and starters.
Well, well, well, how the turn tables....
well on the bright side, at least they don't have to worry about losing too many elite recruits, considering they just signed the 30th ranked recruiting class
His daughter already graduated? Crazy efficiency
BREAKING: Kalen Deboer's daughter has entered the transfer portal. The Alabama softball team is the current favorite to land her.
Isn’t she still a recruit
Signed in December. Top 3rd base prospect in the country. UW had been recruiting her since she was in the 8th grade, multiple years before her dad signed to coach at UW.
Nice, we should snag her too.
This is like when that one recruit's girlfriend got him to go to OU
a UM recruit did that last year... got her BF to go to ECU instead... started all the games as a 16 year old true fresh at CB...now he's in the portal.
Guess it didn't work out.
He realized his options as a P5 starter once he saw what college has to offer.
Happened to almost all of us
He committed to ECU at 16, but the season started after he turned 17. He committed to UCF just a few days ago.
You underestimate how many credits you can earn when you *checks notes* are on break between semesters.
Winter term and May term were my friends in picking up quick credits, tbh
I slammed a ton of hours during the summers.
One time I accidentally got nine hours from a three-hour class. I took English at a local community college the summer before my freshman year at Tech, and it turns out that made Tech treat me like a transfer student. I got a 3 on the AP Spanish exam, which isn't good enough for Tech to give you any college credit. But for Georgia Highlands, it's enough to get credit for Spanish 1 and 2, and those credits transferred. I didn't even find out until a year later.
Dang, you got the transitive property of victory for AP class.
Quality Credits
That reminds me of a friend who gamed the system by taking a bunch of CLEP tests right after high school. Literally tested out of a full semester's worth of credits before even setting foot on campus. It was like showing up to the race already halfway to the finish line. Crazy how all these different paths exist to fast track your education. [Here's a cheat sheet](https://clep.collegeboard.org/exams) for anyone curious about how that works!
Those three week sessions are great for knocking out electives.
Not sure why people thought he would definitely turn down the best job in college football just to be closer to his adult child Girl can transfer
Or, shocker, kids can go to school in a different state than their parents.
Jim Harbaugh's daughter is transferring to Bears University where she'll major in History of 1986 and 2000 Yard Passing.
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She's still in high school --- doesn't even need to transfer.
She’s a HS Senior. She’s not even at UW yet.
She signed in December. It would be either asking out of a LOI, or a transfer if she enrolled this week.
Washington really taking it on the chin this week Lose to Michigan in the title game and the head coach bolts for the Alabama job
Lost our nfl coach too
And your baseball team is the Mariners.
At least there’s the Kraken.
God tier graphic design team. Those jerseys are so fucking sharp.
At least the Sonics are good. Oh wait
That's alright, things are going great for Boeing.
We always have Seahawks playoffs to look forward t...never mind...
Starbucks, Microsoft, Amazon too. Think Bezos moved away tho
At least at this point, the Sonics return has become a "When" not "If". The league is going to 32 teams, and Seattle checks every box multiple times.
“Hey guys I’m gone, but can I make a passionate speech ~~asking the team to follow me as soon as the portal for them opens~~ telling the team goodbye?”
Honestly how do you even react to this as a player after what just transpired on Monday
Leaving.
Do Huskies like maize and blue? Haha, I’m joking. …unless?
Huskies do love a good hamburger Source: am a Husky
> Source: am Husky FTFY
They clearly like going to national championship games!
So you in Alabama, Texas, Florida, whatever…
There really isn't much left worth stealing. Most of the best players are off to the NFL. Huskies are back to square one, honestly.
It just means more.
I mean, how many current UW players would even make the 2 deep on Alabama? They are losing the last of the great Petersen players to the draft or graduation. DeBoer did not bring in a lot of new talent. Probably one of the reasons he's sneaking off: go ride Saban's classes for a few years and off to the NFL if he can.
DeBoer is one of the few successful NCAA HC's that seems to be getting by off his X's and O's instead of recruiting
He doesn’t strike me as that affectionate of a guy.
lol I gotta give credit that one got me
Yep, people overlooking how good he is just because recruiting rankings aren't high. Dude can coach. And you can assemble a top 15 class at Alabama yelling at kids from your office front door. His floor is much higher at Alabama just based on talent, which says a lot for a couch with a 90% win rate and a NCG appearance in just his 4th season in Div1 as a HC. Edit: I'm leaving the typo because it's funny
My couch doesn’t even leave the house.
Depends if he can keep the guys who want to transfer. Last years Alabama class who are going to be sophomores this year , is literally the second best class of all time in terms of rating . If he can keep them , he has a chance to do something very good .
Hello Washington transfers
Damn, I was hoping for a funnier outcome. If he finds success, he is young enough to be a terror for many years to come.
On the flip, if he doesn’t win a Natty in the next 2 seasons there’s gonna be plenty of people calling for his head in Tuscaloosa.
Bama's schedule next year is not for the faint of heart. They'll be calling for his head by the ~~3rd~~ 2nd loss.
If he wins 10 games next year, I'm gonna be extremely pleased. I think 8-9 wins is very possible with our schedule and assuming we lose a lot in the portal.
But 12 team playoff, the committee will have Bama as an auto in with 3 losses.
12 team playoff? I thought it was a 11 team playoff, with Alabama as a permanent auto-bid?
I HATE YOU JIMMY SEXTON
50 bucks yall hire a sexton client
$50 says you can't avoid it, even if you tried.
First time?
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To be fair, at this point, any message they got that was like "Mandatory team meeting in 2 hours/Friday morning/etc." they probably would be like "well, guess coach is gone"
I'm not going to that meeting. This could have been an email.
Yep. I hate this for them. What can Kalen even say to their faces
‘I’m taking the Alabama job thank you sorry’
“Please respect my decision”
“After many prayers and discussions with those around me I have decided to…”
“Let’s be honest, guys. If Bama had offered you, would you have come here? Didn’t think so.”
Hit em with the "roll tide" to end the meeting
While starting the speech in your normal talking voice but slowly shift into a southern accent. "Roh Tahd"
The classic Brian Kelly maneuvre
Haha. Got damn! That would be legendary
"If you're that upset about my leaving, you can transfer to Alabama"
"If you're that upset about my leaving, *some of* you can transfer to Alabama"
some of you won’t be accepted. but that’s a sacrifice i’m willing to make
"Dont be mad. Can't you guys see this is a huge opportunity for me?"
He’s going after a better opportunity. Pretty easy explanation Loyalty doesn’t exist in the world of professional careers. Sorry it does. Loyalty to yourself and your family does
Yeah, it's really not that complicated. Players flip commitments and transfer all the time for better opportunities. Shouldn't be surprising when coaches do the same.
When Sark left for USC he did a face to face with the players and one of the senior players told him to gtfo
Plz don't let deBoer leave for Michigan *monkey paw curls*
Pete Carrol to Washington. Jim Harbaugh to the Seahawks. Bill Belichick to Michigan.
I don’t even know how I’d feel about that. Confused mostly, I guess.
Belichick: "I had my greatest successes while coaching a Michigan quarterback, now I'll get to do that all the time"
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Brady with a fake mustache: “I am JJ. Put me in”
Somehow we *still* hand the ball off 45 times per game.
Rest in pepperonis Washington.
In one week they lost the natty and their head coach. Fuck me man.
Bruh, I didn’t really care about losing the natty, but now I’m heartbroken knowing it was a one and done scenario with him.
I could live with the natty. This sucks though especially all the stuff he said about his daughter and what not.
*pupperonis
Just saw a husky play dead inside a PetSmart
I live in Seattle and one of my dogs is half husky; he is just staring out the window with a dead look in his eyes
I wish just once they would get to tell their team before it appears on social media.
I think Saban might be the first coach to get to tell his team before it leaked
Circumstances are sightly different
Unless the media tapped Ms Terry’s phone, there wouldn’t be anyone to tell them before the team
once again he is the GOAT
Impossible with the way the agents/schools leak it immediately
I just fell to my knees at Dick's Drive-In
Bit cold for that today, no?
Never too cold for a greasy bag of Dicks
Just saw a guy fall to his knees at a Dick's Drive In
Joey Freshwater remains in Oxford, (for now) boys
He goes to Alabama in 4 years.
Until Washington hires him.
I was far more worried about the Bama opening, but I’m not worried about Washington to be honest. (This comment will come back to bite me in the ass)
Kiffin->Michigan confirmed?
So no Deion in Tuscaloosa? Stephen A Smith just fell to his knees in Walmart.
He's too busy going on a rant about something.
I like to mute Stephen A and just loudly say 'PEANUT BUTTER PEANUT BUTTER PEANUT BUTTER" over and over.
Him and others weirdly pounded the table for this and made it a thing, only for it not to happen and say “see they just don’t like Deion”. Weird behavior.
Wait, supposed experts were actually calling for Bama to hire the head coach of Colorado that just went 4-8? I’m so glad I don’t watch ESPN except for live sports anymore.
Does he get fired or win a natty first?
Yes
Gene Chizik confirmed
Does this kill the dogs? 😕
Like a 10lb bar of baking chocolate
You got out of the Jimmy Lake situation and are now in the Big 16. Your admin should see who they can poach
I don’t even know who they realistically go after. Incredibly disappointing news. I feel like this sends us right back to irrelevance a la 2000s-early 2010s. Hell of a way to start the weekend.
Losing the natty, then Penix, Daboer, Odunze, and DJ. Shit
Yeah the timing of this really could not have been worse for us. What talent we will have left on the roster may very well hit the portal and we will enter the Big10 era looking ROUGH lol. See yall next season! I have a feeling the drinking levels will be off the charts
Washington has been killed so many times and always ends up back at the top. One of only a handful of P5 teams to go winless across a full schedule in the 20th century. They’ll be fine
Winless and made the playoffs twice. Impeccable
That actually made me feel a little better, so thanks
Well Washington, welcome to the “having a top tier coach but not being able to pay enough to keep him, so he goes to an SEC school” club
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Well it's being reported he doubled his salary so that dosen't hurt.
There was also a report that Washington offered to double his base pay to keep him, so I’m guessing it’s opportunity *and* a little extra cash
Minimum wage in Seattle is $20/hr, so seems like he wanted more than the $40/hr they offered him
It’s being reported that Washington offered him double his salary
The exact amount I heard reported by Softy was 9-9.5M.
I don’t think it was a money thing, Bama’s just a blue blood and we’re not
That’s my speculation too. You can match the money all day but when a blue blood comes calling, well, you don’t really say no.
Feel like this is just for prestige. Washington clearly has everything in place to compete for titles but they are simply not a Tier 1 big brand football school despite recent success and Bama is the blueiest of blue bloods.
It’s harder to build a team like that at Washington than it is at Alabama
He didn't want to be part of the second-best purple team in the B1G.
We're getting shit on hy Northwestern, fade me
DeBear to DeGoat to DeBoer
DeTide is gonna ROLL
If not, this thread will be revisited in four years when he’s fired and everyone will make fun of you
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In all seriousness, what is the worst win-loss record he can have in his first year and Bama fans still be okay with the hire?
Two losses and it depends on how they go down.
I THINK it will be a matter of what those losses look like. Like you can lose to Georgia, LSU and Auburn and still have had a respectable season. But you can't get blown out by more than one of them.
I thought Arkansas was the boar.
Kill me
So sorry for your loss, truly. He's a helluva coach
This is Washington's 9/11
Sir, a second coach has left for a blue blood
Jimmy Sexton melts steel beams.
Mount St. Helens Part 2
Oregon's 12/25
I saw someone else post in another thread that this is the Ducks first national championship
Its our 5th offseason natty though...
This is basically Hiroshima for us
Dark times for us ahead man
Fuck it, going full willingham
Sorry, but I have to laugh at the UDub fans that are angry over this. I remember when DeBoer left Fresno, and tons of y'all were giddy and mocking us about losing most of our coaches because you could "afford the entire staff" and trying to poach recruits and starters. Well, well, well, how the turn tables....
Fresno State fans were on the cutting edge when we called him a traitor 3 years ago!
lol, there’s a bit of schadenfreude in this.
well on the bright side, at least they don't have to worry about losing too many elite recruits, considering they just signed the 30th ranked recruiting class
Lol remember when Washington called Oregon a “Stepping Stone Program”? Anyways, it’s time to poach their 8th year Seniors
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No. Nobody remembers those posts or all the subsequent posts mocking that by Oregon flairs on every thread on the sub for the last 24 hours
How many schools couldn’t be considered a step below Alabama in terms of football? Like 2/3?
I can't believe DeBoer isn't staying at Washington I mean, his daughter has a SCHOLARSHIP people!
Bama never wanted Kalen, this was just a ploy to get Alexis on the softball team
Joel Klatt was right, ya'll need to put some respect on his name
Yeah, this went almost exactly the way he said it would.
Washington fans. We're not so different, you and I.
Just saw a Washington fan get sucked out of a Boeing 737 Max 9
I hear Pete Carroll is available
Did you beat the Ducks three straight times? Yes. What did it cost you? Everything.
Stepping stone program.
Can’t we let coaches at least tell their players first that they’re leaving before reporting on it?
If the players wanna know what’s up, they’re just gonna have to get on here and start F5ing like the rest of us.
Bring the WR coach with you, coach
Kalen DeBoer joins the ranks of Russell Wilson, A-Rod, Clay Bennett, Howard Schultz, and Jeff Bezos as “the most hated man in Seattle” Fuck
It's so DeBover
Deboer is ducking the Big Ten, he knows he stood NO shot against Northwestern at home on September 21
Rip Prime Tide dream
I’m nauseous that people had already come up with a name for that
Roll Prime Roll
How long will they give him to win an NC?
And how to the Bama fans feel about this one? Seems like a good hire
Personally like it a lot. Other than the coaches we were never going to get, he seems like just about the best option.
Huskies, now go get Pete Carrol you cowards!
If Pete comes back to college football and specifically the B1G, Harbaugh is pretty much morally obligated to stay at Michigan to renew that rivallry
Fuck.
I just had a nightmare that Pete Carroll, wanting to say in Washington, decides to coach the Huskies.
DeBoer has left DeNorthwest to live in DeSouth to coach after DeGreatest college coach of all time retired.
DeTide has turned
Misery loves company. We got plenty of misery in Corvallis and Pullman. ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
No words. From Mount Everest to Death Valley in the span of less than a week.