Kevin Steele has worked for Alabama football with Nick Saban on multiple occasions. Another chance comes next season, according to reports.
. Pete Golding created the opening when he left to fill the same job at Ole Miss.
Steele has known Saban for more than 40 years. Steele told The Tuscaloosa News in 2021 he first met Saban in the early 1980s. Saban was Ohio State's defensive backs coach when Steele met him. Saban would later hire Steele to run his defense when Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa decades later.Before Steele worked for Saban, he made coaching stops as an assistant at Tennessee, New Mexico State, Oklahoma State, Nebraska, Florida State and the Carolina Panthers.
He hasn't been back with Saban since, but Steele has been all over the SEC. He joined LSU in 2015 to coordinator the defense and coach linebackers. Then Steele became Auburn's defensive coordinator from 2016-20 under Gus Malzahn. He served as Auburn's interim head coach through the end of the 2020 season once Malzahn was fired. Steele also had a brief stint as Tennessee's interim coach for nine days.
His defenses at Auburn ranked No. 38 , No. 17 , No. 14 , No. 11 and No. 7 in scoring defense. In Steele's lone season running LSU's defense in 2015, the Tigers finished No. 41 among FBS teams in points surrendered per game .
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