Steele was the end to the miles era.

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was the end to the miles era.

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Chavis's left New Years Day pretty late in the game. No available guys have to go take someone from another team.

Alleva handcuffed Les' DC search with the "Les Miles clause". All part of his master plan

Think we settled. No way this could have been our first choice. Miles wanted Chavis to stay. Alleva did not meet Chavis' demands and left.

What are the chances Saban hires him back after this year and steals all our recruits

Miles has had far worse defenses, but all people can do is live in the very now.

Steele was never a long term solution. He was a temporary solution. He was one of the few with recruiting, experience, and willingness to keep all of the position coaches.. which allowed the program to step up recruiting. Our defensive recruiting is finally addressing important needs.

Miles is responsible for his coordinators. Steele did well with what he had and on such quick conditions. We were thin where it matters most and it caught up for us. but we did enough to be competitive. The offensive line let us down more. We gave up more in a game last year than we have yet to do this season. The D made enough stops for us to be competitive, but the Offense sputtered too often an special teams did us no favors this season either. If you want to see worse defense look at the Mississippi St/Arkansas game both giving up 50 points, or how about the Arkansas/Ole Miss game prior.. Our defense wasn't good a year ago, they benefited in the cupcakes games, but in SEC play they weren't good.. especially early on in the season.. We at least got our turnovers, sacks, and tfl up this season. Still need to do better, but again we had huge holes that needed to be addressed in recruiting. Steele was a stop gap IMO, and Miles' time is nearing any ways..

I was thinking about this earlier. You talk about a killshot from Saban! Send us his LB coach so we could hire him as DC, leading some of us to think we'd have some type of advantage being he knows Saban, but ultimately contrbutes to his arch nemesis getting fired. Now imagine if Saban hires him again

First, im not saying it's not miles fault, he hired him. And he also hired a lot of bad o cords.

But steele was by far the worse. Chief kept us in those games. Bama didn't even have to pass on us this year. Miles stubborn style of coaching worked with a good defence, which he's had before this year.