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I'll type slower so hopefully your mongoloid self can understand.

Saban and Miles ran the same offense in the early 2000's. Saban recognized the offensive revolution college football was experiencing- and changed hi offense accordingly. Hell- just look at this season. He has Lane Kiffin- a WCO guy- running the zone read with an athlete at QB. Not a dropback guy. Saban evolved with the game in his 60's.

Miles was running the same offense in 2016 that he ran in 2004. It wasnt working anymore. Especially when you have Harris, Jennings, and Jefferson as your QB's. A classic dropback passer they are not. He refused to evolve- and this was ultimately his downfall. Just look at our last 2 games vs LSU- Miles had 2+TD leads in the 4th Q of both games and acted like he was up 30 points in both. Even though he won both- he damn lost them because of refusing to realize how quick-strike offenses exist on CFB these days. He simply refused to evolve as a coach. He kept coaching in 2000 mode
...except Saban then beat Miles in the NC game and won the NC the next year also with that same offense...and then was undefeated the year after that before an insane fluke play cost him the Auburn game.

Saban may have felt changing offenses was necessary, and he's certainly continued his success since, but there's no indication he needed to do that to continue winning national titles.