Kalen DeBoer details Alabama football's courtship to replace Nick Saban: 'I couldn't say no'

Alabama’s courtship of its eventual football coach, Kalen DeBoer, was a rapid one. As Crimson Tide athletic director Greg Byrne noted at DeBoer’s introductory news conference, he set out to hire a new coach within 72 hours of Nick Saban’s retirement on Jan. 10 and ultimately did so in 49 hours. For the focus of one of the most consequential coaching searches in the history of college sports, the experience wasn’t any less frenetic. In an ESPN story published Wednesday, DeBoer said the process that led him to Alabama from...