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Alabama fan offers to pay Kalen DeBoer, Greg Byrne buyouts if she wins PowerBall

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The lottery has a lot of people thinking big, especially when it comes to Alabama and Kalen DeBoer. Susie Conerly, a Guntersville, Alabama resident, bought her ticket for the latest PowerBall, worth $1.8 billion. Take a wild guess as to what she would do with the money if she won?

That’s right, she’d be more than willing to pay DeBoer’s buyout. The Alabama coach has one worth $70 million. Talk about using a huge chunk of your winnings!

Not only that, but Conerly would pay athletic director Greg Byrne to go away too. Sounds like after just one loss to Florida State, Alabama fans yearn for the days of Nick Saban.

“I’ll tell you exactly what I do with the first 70 million, I’d pay off Kalen DeBoer and get him the heck out of the University of Alabama, and then I take whatever else it took to get rid of the AD,” Conerly said via WHNT. “I’d give my church money. I don’t know how much of what I’d have, you know, after I paid my taxes, but I’m sure I’d have plenty with this kind of deal. But I know I’m not gonna win. I just hope I win some scratch offs. I just do it for the fun (of it).”

Think there’s some unrest in the state of Alabama? Most people would’ve told you that it would be the state of Auburn University after Week 1, not Alabama. But alas, the Crimson Tide have pressure to get it together fast. DeBoer knows it could mount.

“My message is that our team is … I think we’ve got a really good football, I think we have a good football team that can do some big things still this year,” DeBoer said Wednesday. “But we’ve got to prove it and we’ve got go do it. To this point, it’s been just me being able to focus on football, and I appreciate that.”

Following last Saturday’s 31-17 season-opening loss at an unranked Florida State, which jumped into the Top 20 in both the AP and Coaches polls Tuesday, the Crimson Tide dropped from No. 8 to No. 20 and 21 in the Coaches and AP polls, respectively. Alabama returns to Tuscaloosa in Week 2 against Louisiana-Monroe (7:45 pm ET, Saturday).

Despite DeBoer’s ability to simply “focus on football,” many of Alabama’s biggest boosters and notable alumni such as former quarterbacks Greg McElroy and AJ McCarron have been extremely critical of the product Nick Saban‘s successor has put on the field the past two seasons.