BREAKING Kevin Steele hired as DC

81usaf92

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Alabama fans: You can't look at the stats when discussing how bad Bill O'Brien is.
Also Alabama fans: You have to look at the stats when discussing how bad Kevin Steele is.
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Alabama fans: I don’t care who we hire but it can’t be worse than Golding or Grantham

Also Alabama fans: Saban has completely lost it by hiring Kevin Steele.
 

TideEngineer08

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Here are KS's Scoring D's since leaving Bama in 2008

Clemson 2009, 2010, 2011 - 20.4 PPG (24th NCAA) 18.8 PPG (13th) 29.9 PPG (81st NCAA)

LSU 2015 - 24.3 PPG (41st NCAA)

AU 2016-2020 - 17.1 PPG (7th NCAA) 18.5 PPG (11th NCAA) 19.2 PPG (14th) 19.5 PPG (17th NCAA) 24.7 PPG (38th NCAA)

Miami 2022 - 26.8 PPG (67th NCAA)

His best season is 2016 with AU but if you notice his PPG got worse every single year and 2017-2022 are Pete Golding level numbers.

His average PPG for those 10 seasons with other teams is... 21.92 PPG

HARD PASS on that!!!

This is a TERRIBLE and LAZY hire.
These defenses did not have the talent that Alabama has.

Look this may end up being a terrible hire, but you can’t say lazy. Nick Saban is anything but lazy. What this means is the other candidates were not going to work out. Either they didn’t want to come, or he didn’t like them after the interview.

Steele is 100% an upgrade over Golding.
 

oskie

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Clearly a stop gap until Pruitt can return at some point. And much much much better than Grantham.
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Poke, I think you are right on target.

My very first thought was "stopgap".

Contrary to what was posted above, Pruitt is apparently not available, yet. Leonhard is apparently not available, yet. Looks like they both will still be unemployed this time next year, (according to their individual situations).

I really don't think K Steele is a long termer for this program.

Just my .02 :)
 
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tusks_n_raider

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Alabama fans: You can't look at the stats when discussing how bad Bill O'Brien is.
Also Alabama fans: You have to look at the stats when discussing how bad Kevin Steele is.
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Well you are also talking about 2 Seasons of Data as an OC vs 10 Seasons of Data as a DC.

Steele has ONE Top 10 season and FOUR 38th or Lower

The other Five are all around 15th on average.

I'm going to guess when you are breaking in a new and young OC who's never coached in the SEC it would be best not to give up THREE TD's on average on Defense.

If I'm wrong and KS is lights out I'll own it.

But 10 seasons of giving up 3+ TD's a game seem like enough data to say he is what he is.
 

tusks_n_raider

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Alabama fans: I don’t care who we hire but it can’t be worse than Golding or Grantham

Also Alabama fans: Saban has completely lost it by hiring Kevin Steele.
Both of those can be true.

Steele isn't necessarily worse than Golding or Grantham but he's not massively better either.

It's a BAD hire regardless if it's technically better or even with those other two.
 

81usaf92

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I guess some of us Bama fans didn’t realize that Steele was still alive!
There is difference between “I’m underwhelmed” to “we are all doomed”. Like I said, for 5 years there has been a vocal base of our fans that wanted Golding gone at all costs , and many are posting right now as if we just downgraded.

it really goes back to the line “be careful what you wish for when firing coaches because you might not like the replacement”
 

tusks_n_raider

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These defenses did not have the talent that Alabama has.

Look this may end up being a terrible hire, but you can’t say lazy. Nick Saban is anything but lazy. What this means is the other candidates were not going to work out. Either they didn’t want to come, or he didn’t like them after the interview.

Steele is 100% an upgrade over Golding.
I don't disagree with the bolded though I think it's a marginal improvement.

I'm not saying Saban the man "is lazy"

I'm saying the hire itself is lazy.

It's settling for what might be familiar and safe instead of taking a perceived gamble on a guy that might make him a tad uncomfortable but that's 1000% better.
 

bamadwain

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I said before that we would find someone else to gripe about when Golding and Bob were gone, we have to let it play out, listen Pruitt's not coming so need to get that mess gone to much going on with him right now and Coach knows that, so we live with what we got and go on, if 90% knew on here what they were talking about we would be 2-10 each year
 

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