The Washington Huskies actually didn’t let coach Kalen DeBoer depart for Alabama with no combat, at the very least based mostly on feedback made by athletic director Troy Dannen.
Dannen mentioned the Huskies supplied DeBoer what he known as a “Massive Ten bundle” to stay at Washington even earlier than the Alabama job turned accessible. DeBoer, nonetheless, balked in any respect of Washington’s gives, together with one that may have paid him $9.4 million yearly, which led Dannen to contemplate that he would possibly go away.
“We put numbers in entrance of him that have been, fairly frankly, unprecedented for this college,” Dannen mentioned at a luncheon Thursday, through Mike Vorel of the Seattle Occasions. “We put a Massive Ten bundle in entrance of Kalen, not a Pac-12 bundle. “When it wasn’t signed, Kalen mentioned the suitable issues publicly, and I mentioned the suitable issues publicly … but it surely offers you pause.”
DeBoer basically wager on himself and received. Whereas phrases of his Alabama contract haven’t been disclosed, he’s regarded as getting over $10 million yearly, higher than Washington’s greatest provide.
Alabama is a vacation spot job, and coaches might not get a second likelihood to land it if they’re even afforded the chance to show it down. Cash might have performed a task, however the status was the most important factor that Washington might by no means hope to match.
