Question: Miles vs. Saban: Bringing the gavel down

[rizolltizide]

Since it is impossible to add anything new to this debate, one that has been raging for two years now, I will simply say this. Saban is the better coach. Primarily because he knows how to wear his headwear appropriately.

 

[Nicco25]

Both coaches are doing just fine at their respective schools. Saban isn't as bad as what LSU makes him out to be and Miles isn't as bad as Bama fans claim he is. Yes Saban built LSU, but Miles deserves credit for maintaining it. How many times does a program fall after a coach leaves?

LSU and Bama should be thankful we aren't as bad as Auburn....The SEC West will come down to LSU/Bama every year now... and this debate will go on and on and on and on....

 

[Hal Bennett]

I must admit that after reading about three or four pages of this I gave up trying to read the whole thread.

I once asked a psychologist years ago why he and his colleagues did not just come out and say what they think about a certain personality type when they saw one. He answered that he and his colleagues "don't want to be demonized." (I may be demonized for what I say here.)

After watching Les Miles at LSU for a couple of seasons I determined that he was such a personality type. Sorry if this sounds personal.

Great football coaches, in my opinion, are not "characters." Some good football coaches are absolute characters. In my opinion, Les Miles is such a coach. He is cocky, self-conscious, and, in my opinion, he affects emotions that he really doesn't feel. The main emotion he affects is self-confidence. Les can be 7-5, and if you woke up from a deep coma of five months and the first person you saw was Les on TV, you'd swear that he was 12-0. I don't buy his confidence act.

Some people have a quiet self-confidence that the most astute psychologist can observe and simply come away from and say, "That person is genuinely self-confident." I know this will sound "homerish," but in my book both Coach Bryant and Coach Saban fall into that category. There is not an ounce of affectation in Nick Saban. That is why some consider him a jerk. If he doesn't like something a journalist-- or a referee -- has said, he is honest in his emotional response. I have seen Les Miles kick an emotional response up to an absurd affectation. I don't buy a lot of what seems to me to be pretended emotion on his part -- for example, his reaction to an off-sides penalty in the LSU-Alabama game that the referees finally pinned on LSU.

Genuine people in the long run will become known for their genuineness. Those who are not genuine, after years of deceiving many people, have a way of revealing their true colors, even to the most naive true-believer. It will take a few years more for most people to get a true read on these two men. It will be an interesting, continuing experience, mainly because of the opportunity to see what people think after they have an opportunity to get a better idea of the two men.