re: Good luck Kevin Steele, Gus is expecting a lot outta ya.

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You guys aren't shedding any light by calling him terrible/horrible/etc.

If you'd provide some stats to back up your observations then that would be helpful

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YES...let me do some stat compiling. Be back in 20.

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You guys aren't shedding any light by calling him terrible/horrible/etc.

If you'd provide some stats to back up your observations then that would be helpful

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You're a good poster Jones, so I hate to do this to you but the stats back up their assertions.

Here are the defensive stats (from ESPN) for those teams including the year before Steele, his tenure (in bold), and the year after.

Yards per game

Alabama
2006 - 18th
2007 - 28th
2008 - 3rd

Clemson
2008 - 17th
2009 - 20th
2010 - 19th
2011 - 70th
2012 - 65th

Lsu
2014 - 8th
2015 - 25th

Points per game

Alabama
2006 - 29th
2007 - 30th
2008 - 6th

Clemson
2008 - 10th
2009 - 25th
2010 - 13th
2011 - 81st
2012 - 48th

Lsu
2014 - 3rd
2015 - 44th

At every stop, the team's performance under Steele declined immediately after his arrival and improved immediately after his exit. At Clemson (his only multi-year stop), during his entire tenure his defenses never matched the performance of the team the year before he took the job.

Based on Steele's history, Lawson and friends are going to have to play very, very, very well in order for Auburn to simply match the performance of the 2015 unit. Hoping to see a drastically improved unit is betting against a decade of documented Steele declines.