Today the words of Kalen DeBoer “How you do one thing is how you do everything” rings hollow.  He used those words to imply that he was of the highest integrity.

However, has his final month and a half at Washington has revealed his true character?

Over the past 45 days, he snookered new, Washington Athletics Director Troy Dannen into thinking that once the season was over they’d be able make a deal, all the while knowing he was gone.

He proved that Washington can compete in the highest level, winning the conference championship in his second year, win the Sugar Bowl, and play in the College Football National Championship Game.

In slow-playing Dannen on signing the deal he allowed Dannen’s former head coach Willie Fritz at Tulane to be hired by Houston.

There’s little difference between Steve Sarkisian’s exit and Kalen DeBoer’s from an integrity standpoint.

Nick Saban retiring isn’t news to me—it couldn’t have been news to someone much higher up the college football food chain than me.

It’s impossible to believe that DeBoer and his agent didn’t have this plan all along.  Sure, Oregon’s Dan Lanning allegedly flew down to Tuscaloosa for an “interview” but there was no way that Lanning’s $20,000,000.00-plus buyout was close to being feasible.

So, how you do one thing is how you do everything?

It’s all slimy.

Yes, I’ll be eternally grateful for the 2022 and 2023 seasons, but, in the end is how he did his final thing is how he did everything?

Did he look at Washington’s roster and see Rome Odunze, Jalen McMillan, Ja’Lynn Polk, Devin Culp, Jack Westover, Troy Fautanu, Roger Rosengarten, etc and them as mere stepping stones.

Pawns.

How you treat one person is how you treat everyone?  Just pawns in his master plan?