Alabama has actually won summertime recruiting: How they did it and

• Eli Lederman, ESPN Staff WriterJul 25, 2024, 07:35 AM ET

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  Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He signed up with ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World.Over the six

months considering that Kalen DeBoer landed the greatest job in college football, Alabama’s first-year coach has actually taken a typical theme within him onto the recruiting trail, a message focused on weaving together the Crimson Tide’s storied past and its transformational present.Markus Cook heard the

pitch when DeBoer and his staff began recruiting 2025 offending deal with dedicate Micah DeBose, the No. 72 player in the ESPN 300, out of Vigor High School in Prichard, Alabama.”Among the things DeBoer says to employees

and to households is,’I don’t want to change a culture of things that worked,’ “Prepare, who started coaching DeBose as an eighth-grader, stated.”He doesn’t wish to eliminate traditions that have actually been here for 25 years. He just wants to boost it and put his twist on it.”Music at practice. Fresh drills. A different, more laid back environment from

the one Nick Saban oversaw across 17 years in Tuscaloosa before he retired in January.While there are some new things at Bama, the 49-year-old DeBoer has actually picked to preserve specific Saban-era elements in

his early months at Alabama, too. Amongst the most important: high-level success with elite employees.