After nearly two decades under head coach Nick Saban, the Alabama Crimson Tide seems to be finally falling back to earth. 14, a notion reinforced by media members at SEC Media Days predicting Alabama to finish sixth in the conference. Read More on NCAAAfter the first preseason practice on Wednesday, Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer made clear that the team is hearing this and taking it as disrespect. "But as a whole team, that’s what it’s got to be. So, you’re trying to, at the same time, build belief and confidence in each other while you’re really trying to ask them, one side of the ball to just kick the other side’s [expletive] all day.”