Live Updates: Kalen DeBoer at SEC Media Days

Alabama's head coach will address the media at media days for the first time in his Alabama tenure.

Jan 13, 2024; Tuscaloosa, AL, USA; The University of Alabama introduced new head football coach Kalen DeBoer with a press conference at Bryant-Denny Stadium. DeBoer speaks during the press conference. / Gary Cosby Jr.-Tuscaloosa News / USA

It's not only a new era in the SEC, but a new era is beginning in Tuscaloosa this season.

Legendary head coach Nick Saban has retired, and his replacement, former Washington head coach Kalen DeBoer, has now been on the job for about six months. As he gears up for his first season coaching one of the best programs in the sport's history, he first gets to participate in SEC Media Days.

Follow along for live updates as DeBoer takes the podium at the Omni Hotel in Dallas on day three of SEC Media Days. He is scheduled to begin speaking at 9 a.m. CT.

Live Updates (most recent update at the top)

• DeBoer: "I would not trade my journey for anything. It gives me an appreciation for where I'm at."

• DeBoer said Alabama maximized all 15 spring practices and got the most they could out of them.

• Kalen DeBoer: "People are always what make places. I've been in a lot of places in the country. There are just so many great people in Tuscaloosa, it's really made this transition smooth and enjoyable. It's honestly the place that's reminded me the most of being back in South Dakota."

• DeBoer said it was very important to put the right people around him when it came to recruiting an area he was unfamiliar with like the South.

• Kalen DeBoer on following Nick Saban: "I take it as a great honor to be the one who gets to do everything we can to carry on a great tradition."

• DeBoer said Malachi Moore has embraced the role of being a leader in a secondary with a lot of youth and inexperience.

• Kalen DeBoer: "I know there are guys that have tried to beat [Jalen Milroe] to the facility [in the morning] and can't." He said Milroe gets to the facility at 4:30 every morning.

• Kalen DeBoer said quarterback Jalen Milroe is 'positive, but also brings accountability.' He also said Milroe is continuing to improve in a different variety of throws he can make.

• Kalen DeBoer ended his opening statement by congratulating Nick Saban for his ESPY win and thanking him for building the foundation at Alabama.

• Kalen DeBoer: "Now the whole thing is focused on separating ourselves."

• Kalen DeBoer spoke about getting to witness Alabama's Final Four and Women's College World Series runs that both happened since he came to campus.

• DeBoer spoke about Alabama's media day representatives, saying QB Jalen Milroe, DB Malachi Moore, and OL Tyler Booker "never waivered from the beginning."