Kalen DeBoer’s task this season is restoring Alabama’s aura of authority, and Florida State’s trash-talking quarterback Thomas Castellanos served a gift.
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Just when I thought Kalen DeBoer’s offseason couldn’t go much better, the Alabama coach received the perfect gift from an opposing quarterback. Florida State’s Thomas Castellanos served bulletin board material that will provide the program jet fuel throughout the dog days of summer.
Castellanos, a transfer from Boston College, will make his first start for the Seminoles when they host Alabama in the season opener, and the quarterback with the 58.6% career completion rate foresees something big going down at Doak Campbell Stadium.
“You go back and watch every first game that I played in, we always start fast,” Castellanos told On3. “I dreamed of moments like this. I dreamed of playing against Alabama. They don’t have Nick Saban to save them. I just don’t see them stopping me.”
There’s an obvious clapback about Bobby Bowden not being around to save Florida State anymore – the Noles went 2-10 last season – but I digress.
Kalen DeBoer’s task: Restore Alabama’s aura of authority
DeBoer strives to be his own man rather than mimic than inimitable, but here’s an unmissable opportunity to take a page from Saban’s book. Back in his day, the GOAT would have mainlined this quote into the Crimson Tide’s cerebrum and let it be a motivational prod.
Some minion in the Mal Moore Athletic Facility in Tuscaloosa ought to be pounding Control+P keys on their laptop and plastering the walls, the nooks and the crannies with Castellanos’ quote.
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