The Alabama Crimson Tide lacked its typical intimidation think about its loss to the Florida State Seminoles on Saturday, and head coach Kalen DeBoer made an sincere admission about his group after the sport.
Alabama, ranked No. 8 within the Related Press preseason ballot, was dominated from begin to end by unranked Florida State. The end result was a stunning 31-17 Seminoles victory, which left many individuals questioning whether or not Alabama’s school soccer dominance had truly come to an finish with Nick Saban’s retirement.
DeBoer, who’s in his second season as the pinnacle coach of the Crimson Tide, known as the loss to Florida State “irritating.” He additionally questioned whether or not Alabama has an ideal group this 12 months.
“I do know we’ve an excellent group. I do not know if we’ve an ideal group,” DeBoer informed CTSN, via Mike Rodak of 247 Sports. “Clearly we misplaced right now, so we acquired so much to show to actually persuade individuals of that, together with ourselves.”
Florida State received simply two video games final season. Alabama went 9-3 earlier than being neglected of the Faculty Soccer Playoff after which misplaced to Michigan within the ReliaQuest Bowl. The loss to Florida State on Saturday was the Tide’s fourth to an unranked opponent since final 12 months.
“It is a lengthy season. We clearly put ourselves behind the eight ball right here and made it actually difficult,” DeBoer added. “There’s so many good gamers that I simply know so long as we are able to maintain the entire thing collectively — which I actually select to consider the character of this group, that it’ll, and the grit of the leaders stepping up and simply persevering with to forge forward. We acquired an opportunity tomorrow to get higher. I do know it sucks having that occur after a loss, however right here we’re. It is the second we’re in and all we are able to do is management that.”
DeBoer had large sneakers to fill at Alabama, and the stress will solely mount after he started the 2025 season with a loss to a non-conference opponent.
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