Question about Kevin Steele

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But can he be that bad to keep getting good jobs?

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This is college football, so the answer is yes. His last two hires were desperation scrambles by us and LSU.

Satan demoted him from DC after his first season. Dude might be a top notch LB coach, but there is little evidence he is a good DC.

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CWM had them boys playing well at the end of the yea

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When exactly? Was it the time we gave up the most rushing yards to a single player in Auburn football history?

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When exactly? Was it the time we gave up the most rushing yards to a single player in Auburn football history?

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If you cant admit that our defense was playing great at the end of the season last year, then you are completely lost.

Steele shows that he always underachieved and finished with top 25 Defenses when. He should have been too 10


I'm hoping Steele's underachieving is 20-30 this year

If we give up 24 points or less, we shouldn't lose with an "offensive coach" at the helm.

Right. There are two ways of looking at his stats as a D coordinator. He's either:

A.) a net negative to whatever team he's the DC for, meaning the ranking of your D necessarily goes down after his hire. That means he would take a 7th ranked D and turn it into a 20th, or a 62nd ranked D and turn it into a 74th. This would suck.

B.) he's a consistently 20-40 D coach, and every job he's had he has regressed to his mean. That means he would take still take a 7th ranked D and turn it into a 20th, but he would take that 62nd ranked D and turn it into a 38th.

I personally think he's B, considering the caliber of coaches and their defenses who hire him, but it's all conjecture by everyone at this point. Regardless, he's apparently really good at teaching fundamentals, and if there was anything the Auburn D has needed more since Chizik came its been defensive fundamentals.

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fundamentals

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So tired of seeing whiffs and arm tackles. Hoping his teaching of fundamentals is true

Steele will be fine. It will be hard NOT to be fine with the monstrous D-line AU has. I would say there's only 4 or 5 schools (if that) who have the depth and talent AU has at that position.

Besides he was at LSU for one year. If he had been there 3 or 4 years and there was a huge drop-off in performance, then I would be worried. But there's not much you can judge from one season.

The man has coached in the NFL and has been an assistant under some of the best NCAA head coaches. The guy knows football.

My only concern is that he doesn't end up like Ellis Johnson -- a veteran coach who SHOULD know what he's doing, but for some weird reason just doesn't get it done.