But that's not a stat that is favorable to how I am feeling right now about this hire so that's not a stat you can read into, but you can read into the stats that say he is a bad coordinator that I like (blue font).
BREAKING Kevin Steele hired as DC
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From a former player and now Coach..@ Dora High School: As a former player we loved him and his passion! Goes bigger than X’s and O’s
So you're saying he posted Golding-level numbers with 1/10th the talent Golding had?
or 2017 when auburn had to go up against the Acc Champion, sec champion, National Champion, Sec champion again, Whatever the heck champion you want to call UCF all in the same season.
This hire ought tell everyone there is not a real long line of coaches who want to be a mannequin DC for Saban. You are either 1) young and unproven, 2) on the last go around of your career, or 3) in need of coaching rehab to be interested in DC role at Bama.
Maybe we will have some decent linebacker play for a change.
I prefer Steele to Grantham or Golding. I think he's at least a minimal upgrade.
The rest of it is "wait and see."
But this is where it reminds me a lot of when people want a harsh ruler removed in another country - who's your replacement? It's easy to scream "fire Golding" (and he needed to go, don't get me wrong), but it's another thing entirely to have a super upgrade.
My suspicion is that most of the "Pledge to Jump off the Ledge" here is rooted in the idea that Pruitt was coming here as the DC, which some folks tried to tell everyone wasn't going to happen.
I think we’re all overlooking the hire of the young kid…perhaps he’ll have a “fresh eyes” influence…
He’s supposed to be smart as a whip…a silent co-dc type deal to go with Steele?
I wish we coulda done better. Sigh. So we're clear, it's an improvement but it's not who I wanted and it feels like a B hire at best.
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The truth is that there is no way this would be anyone’s first choice. And this is what we get….. it is almost impossible to call this anything but “settling”. It appears Coach was simply unable to reel in his first, second or third choices. I’ll hope for the best, but my goodness…..
You left out the "with weaker talent on his team" part.
Notre Dame is no longer the Lou Holtz-era powerhouse or the team that for a half century could simply say, "We want him and him" and get all those players.
I don't know how it's going to play, but we've gone from a Volkswagen with a spark plug missing to a Buick Skylark at least.
Golding was a horrible DC
Good point. You simply cannot define a DC by the stats. You have to also examine the talent they had, who they played, what the offensive philosophy was and whether or not it complemented the defense or hurt it. I know Malzahn's offense could put a lot of strain on the defense at times and he ran hurry up all the time regardless how gassed the D was.
If I knew we were gonna do this, I would've preferred TRob (already on staff).... but here we go
Wow, tough crowd.
But let me ask this question: Kevin Steele is known as a very good linebacker's coach, right?
What area of our defense have we seen a huge dip in recently and what position did we groan about the most last year?
But let me ask this question: Kevin Steele is known as a very good linebacker's coach, right?
What area of our defense have we seen a huge dip in recently and what position did we groan about the most last year?
I stand by my comment. He was just horrible enough to play for two NCs and win one.
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