Greg Byrne shares expectations for Kalen DeBoer, Alabama football 2025 season
MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — Alabama athletics director Greg Byrne knows the clichés. Every college football program had a "really good" offseason in the weight room, every program had a "really good" spring ball.
And at SEC Spring Meetings, while cliché, Byrne believes both of those have been true for Alabama football.
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"That's the old lines, right?" Byrne said. "Ours have been really good."
Byrne said he admires the job Kalen DeBoer and his staff have done in his first full offseason with the Crimson Tide, coming off a 2024 season where Alabama finished with its first season with less than 10 wins since 2007, one that finished with a ReliaQuest Bowl loss to Michigan.
"I've been really impressed with the buy-in from the young men in our program," Byrne said. "I think having coach (Ryan) Grubb there has been a real positive for the program. Kalen's leadership through this historical transition has been really good across the board."
Byrne highlighted that Alabama was the only SEC program to not lose a single scholarship player to the NCAA transfer portal in the spring window, one that shows the buy-in DeBoer also called apparent throughout the Crimson Tide's spring.
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"Guys are pouring everything into it right now," DeBoer said. "They are almost over the top with the work they want to put in because of the desire they have to, you want to be great and have an amazing season. Coming off of last year, they want to prove some people right and prove some people wrong."
Alabama opens its 2025 season Aug. 30 at Florida State.
Colin Gay covers Alabama football for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at cgay@gannett.com or follow him @_ColinGay on X, formerly known as Twitter.
This article originally appeared on The Tuscaloosa News: Greg Byrne shares expectations for Alabama football 2025 season
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