re: Saban built LSU from ground up?

Saban and Miles both took over programs with tons of talent. The Saban years gave Miles the measureable advantage of a program on the rise in the public's eyes. That's what Saban did from the ground up. Dinardo's last two years had demoralized much of Tiger Nation and severely reduced the team's national perception. Saban winning the first SEC title in 13 years and then the first MNC in 45 years busted open the doorway to national prominence that the Tigers had been excluded from entering for over a decade. Dinardo could lure the talent, just couldn't manage it properly on the field. In many ways I see Les in the same light. The big difference in every year save '08 is Les does hire better coaching talent than Jerry ever did.
I will add that had the coaches been reversed for this game last Saturday the plethora of horrendous wrong calls and no calls would have doomed a Saban-led Tiger team as well IMHO.