It’s a brand new period for Alabama soccer, as longtime coach Nick Saban left the sidelines after 17 seasons with the Crimson Tide.
Taking excessive job in Tuscaloosa, Ala., is Kalen DeBoer, who most not too long ago coached the Washington Huskies to the Faculty Soccer Playoff nationwide championship recreation.
DeBoer faces a tall job in filling the footwear of Saban, who received six nationwide titles with the Crimson Tide, however there may be already one place the place the previous Huskies coach has surpassed his predecessor: social media.
On Monday, DeBoer made a put up on X, previously Twitter, shouting out just a few members of the Alabama group who had been named student-athletes of the week.
Nice work gents! https://t.co/9QPYpY9gRq
— Kalen DeBoer (@KalenDeBoer) February 19, 2024
Whereas the put up wasn’t all that vital by itself, Saban was famously old-fashioned when it got here to social media utilization, and provided that Saban took over the job in 2007 when Twitter was nonetheless in its infancy, DeBoer’s tweet is the primary to ever come from an lively head coach of Crimson Tide soccer.
The second was not misplaced on faculty soccer followers and observers.
That is the primary ever tweet by an Alabama Soccer HC. https://t.co/ZlwAPxtbEh
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) February 20, 2024
Don’t let it slip by that that is the primary time ever that an Alabama head soccer coach wrote and posted a tweet… https://t.co/2HK6xwcnhf
— Ben Stanfield (@Ben_Stanfield) February 20, 2024
Our coach Tweets! #RollTide ##ITAWCFT https://t.co/uUcamWg8fM pic.twitter.com/LyBYAz4spt
— Sleepy Weazel 81 (Jim) 👮♂️🚔🐘🇺🇲 (@heyjimbousaf) February 20, 2024
BREAKING:An Alabama head coach has simply despatched a tweet for the primary time ever. https://t.co/BS1jQ2WxuO
— Sidelines – Bama (@SSN_Alabama) February 19, 2024
First time an Alabama Soccer HC has ever tweeted https://t.co/7Mf4zG6tMw pic.twitter.com/njeGvGeU96
— Micah (@MicahLangston_) February 19, 2024
It’s going to take some time to get used to Bama’s head coach tweeting. https://t.co/juzKDu09KQ
— Cody Raulston 🐘 (@NoogaBammer) February 19, 2024
DeBoer must do much more than tweet to win the hearts of Alabama followers, who’ve grown accustomed to championship seasons 12 months after 12 months, however it’s spectacular that he’s already creating his personal path in not less than one, albeit small, side of the job earlier than a snap has been performed this 12 months.
