re: Miles/Payton

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Average in the NCAA is 8-9 wins each year, that is just a fact of the 12 game schedule.

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Saban has coached 14 seasons of NCAA ball. He has won 8 or 9 games in 5 of those seasons, "less than" 8 or 9 games in 5 other seasons, and "more than" 8 or 9 games in the remaining 4 seasons. He is 124-50-1, for an average of 8.85-3.57. He has won several conference championships (4), and of course 2 BCS championships (and at 2 different schools).

Miles has a very similar resume. He is 79-36 over 9 seasons. That is an average of 8.78-4. From a pure win/loss ratio, that is statistically insignficant (less than one game shift, by either coach, over the career is the tipover). Certainly Miles has not won 4 conference championships, but Saban has coached 5 more years than Miles, and 3 of his championships have come in the last 5 years of his career, likewise for his second BCS championship.

You Miles "Haters" are free to dislike Miles for his hat, for making the occasional dumb decision during a game, kicking a player off the team would have all but guaranteed 2 to 3 more wins over the past 2 seasons.

But DON'T pretend that there is some objective evidence that stands for the proposition that Saban (or Meyer for that matter) is a "significantly better" coach than Miles.


There isn't.