Getty Joel Klatt offers shocking opinion of Alabama football under Kalen DeBoer. FOX Sports analyst Joel Klatt isn’t backing down from a growing national narrative surrounding Kalen DeBoer and the Alabama Crimson Tide football program. In a recent appearance on The Next Round , Klatt delivered what many Crimson Tide fans may view as an uncomfortable truth: Alabama hasn’t improved in the areas that matter most, particularly in competing at the highest level. His biggest concern? The lack of a