Alabama Crimson Tide head football coach Kalen DeBoer may not make it to October given how his team looked against the Florida State Seminoles this past Saturday.
ESPN's Dan Orlovsky doesn't have much confidence DeBoer will survive September, sharing the worst-case scenario on Monday Morning's edition of ESPN's "Get Up."
"If Nick Saban watched this tape back yesterday, he would have kicked some of these kids off the team. That's how bad it was... I think it's fair to say, can Kalen DeBoer survive September?... they look like a shell of what Nick Saban had built them to become," Orlovsky said.
Orlovsky isn't the first analyst to say that several members of the Crimson Tide would be kicked off the team by Nick Saban.
Emmanuel Acho shared the same opinion.
"If Nick Saban were still coaching Alabama, he would be pulling scholarships today," Acho said.
"Don’t pass go, don’t collect $200, just give me your scholarship.
"If he saw this on film, players would be gone. Period."
Alabama firing DeBoer so quickly could be seen as ripping the band-aid off. It's clear he's not going to work out in Tuscaloosa long-term, so making the painful, but necessary, move now could at least give the university time to make a calculated decision on who's next.
But firing the guy who replaced "the guy" in the first month of his second season is so disastrous that it'd stick to the program like a bindii.
For all the issues the Gumps gave the Auburn Tigers for the Bryan Harsin debacle, "Husky Harsin" having his run in Tuscaloosa shut down so quickly would be 10x worse. The Tigers found a head coach who recruited even better than the one Harsin replaced.
Unless Nick Saban walks through that door at the University of Alabama, the "Bama Standard" will likely never return to its historic highs ever again.