re: My thoughts on the Kevin Steele hire

I don't think the talent gap between Bama and LSU is big. Bama might have a very slight edge but it's not significant enough to matter. Just look at what LSU puts into the NFL. It's close for both teams. Bama seems more talented because of their coaching. This goes back to what I said earlier in the thread you can't just have talent and completely lack coaching. Bama vs. LSU is actually a great argument for it because the talent is similar yet you see a gap between the teams thanks to having the best coach in the NCAA. The reason Bama has high bust players that go to the NFL is because Saban makes them hit their ceilings in college while LSU players seem to have more success in the NFL recently because their ceilings are not being met in college. That's coaching.

I don't think Miles is a bad coach at all. He's just in the unfortunate position of having to live up to an even better coach who use to be here who's now coaching our division rival and dominating at it. If Saban didn't exist in this conference the tune would be totally different on here about Miles. You could look at a 3 year window and say that Saban was the main reason from preventing us being a possible dynasty in that period. The roles were reversed. Miles is not the best coach in this conference but if you took LSU's team and put them in another conference they'd be in the playoffs every year. SEC has so much money invested in top coaches.

Miles needs to surround himself with excellent assistants while Saban has proven he can pick the slack up and is more of a controlling HC over his program.