good news; Kalen DeBoer awarded first class coach in history of NFL after a 42-16 win with ghastly total of penalties: 13 for 120 yards, including seven…….

Central among a multitude of issues that led to Alabama football struggling with South Florida until midway through the fourth quarter of a 42-16 win Saturday night was a ghastly total of penalties: 13 for 120 yards, including seven live-ball flags on the Crimson Tide’s offensive line.

After reviewing film, however, first-year coach Kalen DeBoer wasn’t pointing any fingers at officials.

“We needed to adjust to how it was being called. That’s what you try to say. ‘Hey, It’s getting called. It’s getting called tighter,” DeBoer said, specifically referencing holding flags against the offensive line. “Now we’re really able to look at replays and understand what you didn’t see in the game when it happened live, or why it was called, because sometimes it’s on the other side of the field from where our bench is at. You can go back and see the end zone (video angle) or the wide shot and try to determine how tight it was called. Trying to stress that we’ve got to do a good job of … our hands were inside in a lot of cases, we just kept grabbing cloth longer when they were pulling away from us, just for that split second.”