Jumbo Package: Kalen DeBoer adds DL coach from Oklahoma

Dec 19, 2025; Norman, OK, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Kalen Deboer against the Oklahoma Sooners during the CFP National Playoff First Round at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images | Mark J.

Rebilas-Imagn Images Happy Gump Day, everyone. Unfortunately this first news isn’t terribly Gumpish: women’s basketball coach Kristy Curry has left Alabama for South Florida. Yes, you read that right.

USF has lured Kristy Curry, a veteran coach with 554 career wins, away from Alabama to lead its women’s basketball program. Only two days after men’s basketball coach Bryan Hodgson left Tampa to coach the Big East’s Providence , the Bulls have managed to flip the script. Curry, 59, is one of 10 collegiate women’s basketball coaches to record at least 100 wins at three different programs.

Over 13 seasons at Alabama, she accumulated 245 wins and led the Crimson Tide to the NCAA Tournament in five of the last six seasons. This season, Alabama went 24-11 and lost to Louisville by a point in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Curry was asked to do more with less in Tuscaloosa.