The 'reason' Kalen DeBoer signed Alabama football contract extension
Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer discusses his new contract extension and why he says he is "here for a reason."
Kalen DeBoer sat in his office comfortably. Outside, questions swirled for months about the Alabama football coach’s long-term place with the Crimson Tide , questions seemingly squelched by a seven-year contract extension for $12. 5 million annually , making DeBoer one of the highest-paid coaches in college football.
Those questions, DeBoer admits, grew tiresome. “I wouldn’t be here,” DeBoer told The Tuscaloosa News . “It’s just pretty obvious.
I think it’s pretty obvious. It’s a challenge that I knew coming in what it would be. ” DeBoer knew what he was getting into.
Alabama is the “focal point” of college football conversation, he said. And any news “is always going to be amplified when it’s Alabama,” especially when it comes to its head coach being connected to open jobs at Penn State or Michigan. But to DeBoer, nothing changed inside the building.