Prattville, Alabama, just north of Montgomery.
His father, Pete, was a football coach. Older brother Dale is now the director of football administration at East Carolina, and younger brother Jeff is an associate athletic director at Auburn.
But defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Kevin Steele’s long path to LSU really started in Dillon, South Carolina, where the family moved and where he met John Chavis.
They were high school teammates and later college roommates at Tennessee. Seemingly joined at the hip, they played for Johnny Majors and began their coaching careers with the coach as well, while developing a relationship between them that has been widely described as “like brothers.