Chavis encouraged Steele to take LSU job

I know this has been brought up before, but the ESPN SEC blog article this morning made me think about it again. Usually when you hear about friends coaching against each other they either use some cop out like "it's just like any other game I have to deal with" or flat out say they don't like coaching against friends.

But actually encouraging a close friend to take the same position at an in division school? That's pretty stunning. Chavis doesn't just not mind playing his good friend Kevin Steele, he wanted it.

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"He's the one that when it all started about him [going] somewhere else, he called," Steele said. "And so after he took that, he said, 'Man, you ought to go to LSU.' He said, 'You ought to take that job.' Obviously I didn't have it, so it was kind of hard to take something you didn't have."

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Chavis REALLY wanted Steele at LSU. Makes you wonder why he would want that.



Bonus quote:

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But Steele will not be a Chavis clone in his new job. He is known as a recruiting ace, where Chavis' strength is more in the schematic X's and O's.

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