Fantasy Land: With whom do you replace Miles?

Saw that too, kind of a too many cooks in the kitchen almost guarantees failure type of reasoning. He was talking specifically about in game playcalling. What he said makes sense and you can definitely see that he has taken a much more hands off approach on the offensive side. Smart is running Saban's defense, but in game it belongs to Kirby. On the offensive side he seems to have given almost total control to Kiffin and it's working. I can't stand the little arrogant bastard, but he is a good HC and he's a much better HC now than when he was at LSU. It's called learning and adapting, something our current knucklehead knows nothing about.

 

@tigerchick46 Well I'll be damned....lol

 

He can say that, but I don't buy it. He is not the kind of guy that gives autonomy. He might do it from a in-game defensive call perspective (e.g. blitz on this down, bump and run on that one), but he is not doing that from a game preparation standpoint, and the defensive scheme is definitely Saban's.

 

you dont have to believe it because it counters your argument. your argument is wrong however.

 

The thought that this would ever happen is the ultimate fantasy in this thread. When you listen to his press conferences and his blathering about lack of execution, he means it. He sincerely believes there is absolutely nothing wrong with his game plan, his coaching philosophy or his approach to the game, and the only reason it doesn't work is because his players don't perform. It's like giving a world-class neurosurgeon a claw hammer to perform brain surgery and blaming the guy when the patient dies from a fractured skull.

 

You are free to believe what you like, obviously. I don't believe that Saban gives Smart free-reign.

 

He does though. He didn't at first but 8 years with the man, Kirby Smart has autonomy.

 

Of course he does, you don't hang around that long on his staff without gaining trust

 

I thought the Saban/Kiffin marriage was going to blow up in Saban's face. Looks like it didn't. You think Kiffin has autonomy on that side of the ball to? If so, then there seems to be a theme that Saban has: trust who you hire, give autonomy to the OC/DC and be the general manager and you have success. Bama is currently running the offense that LSU needs to run. They are still run centric, yet spread the field enough with the WR sets and have enough diversity and creativity with the route tree that you can succeed in the passing game. They haven't sold out to the spread offense scheme, but do enough of it to capitalize on formations and take advantage of the opposing team's weaknesses. I can't believe that Kiffin is a better OC than Cameron??

 

Why not? Have you seen anything that would make you believe different?