Paul Finebaum outlines 'untenable' scenario for Kalen DeBoer to remain at Alabama

Kalen DeBoer is already in a bit of a hot seat coming out of the opener of his second season at Alabama. He may never get off of it either, with how Paul Finebaum thinks this year could continue in Tuscaloosa.

Appearing on ‘Beat Everyone’ at AL.com on Wednesday, Finebaum again considered whether the Crimson Tide could fire DeBoer just two years into his tenure. For now, he says he continues to think that’d be hard to believe.

“I’ll give you the standard line, then I’ll give you the reality line. My gut tells me it’s hard to believe that he would be fired at the end of this year,” Finebaum said.

However, Finebaum sees more than one way where this becomes unsustainable for everyone ‘Bama. One includes losing more games they were supposed to win, like the Crimson Tide did this past weekend at Florida State. That, for example, would be losing one or two of the conference games they really shouldn’t, or to their other power opponent in the non-conference against Wisconsin.

“Now, there is a scenario here that it just becomes untenable,” Finebaum said. “By that, you start losing games you’re not supposed to lose – like the one Saturday, last Saturday. You drop a Wisconsin game?”

That said, Finebaum says it may not even take that for DeBoer to be out by season’s end. That’s with more than enough games that they could lose during their conference schedule in the SEC, that the Tide may have a final record that justifies it to them by December.

“But, I don’t even think that matters. I mean, let’s just, let me give you this,” Finebaum said. “Go through the games. I think I have them in my mind. Lose to Georgia. What’s the next game? You lose to Vanderbilt at home. Is that unrealistic? Missouri, South Carolina, and Tennessee are all in (October). Let’s just say you lose most of these games. And, you lose to Tennessee and LSU, of course. And Oklahoma, and Auburn? I mean, are you going to tell me that, if this guy bombs out in the SEC with a, I don’t know, 3-5 record, that he’d be able to hold on? I mean, that’s the real problem.

“I mean, I don’t really know what to tell you on these SEC games because, right now, it’s hard to really – until we see the Georgia game, it’s going to be very difficult to find a lane for him to win these games.”

Alabama has three weeks until its conference opener and three months left in this season to get things corrected, coming out of what happened in Tallahassee. If they don’t, though, and things get worse for the Tide, DeBoer may not be able to defend himself for a year three as their head coach.