Saban Pre-SEC- 34-24-1, 3 Bowl Losses
Miles Pre-SEC- 28-21, 1-2 in Bowls
Good coaches are good coaches. "He only recruited 3 star players to Cincy". Yeah, well recruiting ability is correlated to the school's prominence- what do you expect? A 5 star player would be a fool to play at a MAC or Big East School. The thing about him is it seems like he gets the most out of what he has had to work with and that players improve under his guidance as well as the fact that Butch has sent quite a few players to the NFL from a school like Cincinatti is certainly reassuring.
Miles' and Saban's exposure to the SEC before those jobs was minimal. I'll reserve judgment on Butch until we have a product to evaluate.
But then again, this could just be a smokescreen for Gruden to take over in 2014.