Kalen DeBoer embraces elevated expectations at Alabama

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Nick Saban coached at Alabama for 17 seasons. Successor Kalen DeBoer has had the job for about six months, but knows there is no honeymoon period for a program with perennial national championship aspirations.

"This program is special, and I take it as a great honor to be the one that gets to do everything we can to carry on the great tradition," DeBoer s