In a straight up choice between Aranda and Riley, I’d pick Aranda.

I'd be happy with both, but I'd prefer an offensive minded coach.

I am 100% with you

I'm Team Aranda but in this case, I don't think we can lose unless we miss both of them some how.

My concern with Riley is he hasn't built anything. That was a strong Bob Stoops program he inherited. And he's played in a weak conference where wins are easy. I'll give him this, he's a pied piper for quarterbacks.

Is that the same guy lovingly referred to around here as Third & Aranda?

I hope Aranda is the hire, but can we please stop this nonsense that he "turned Baylor around?" Baylor was 11-3 the year before he arrived, which included a Sugar Bowl loss to Georgia. Matt Rhule was awesome there and left Aranda with a great situation that, to Aranda's credit, he has largely continued. So LSU would be Aranda's very first turn-around job. I think he is up for it.

Riley is an overrated coach. With the offensive talent he brings in on a yearly basis, they should have won a natty since he’s been there. OU was also an established program by the time he got there, so he hasn’t done anything but sustain the program, in a very weak conference.

I think Aranda is everything we’ve been asking for im a head coach, since Saban. The process, the way he does things, and how he thinks, is something that not many college coaches have. He’s a program builder, and will not settle for complacency. He doesn’t care who you’re playing, every game is a game that you must win. He’ll treat playing Vandy like we’re playing Bama. He’s going to get players to play to their best ability. It’s not who you play, but how you play.

I’m not going to say he’s the next Saban, because there will probably never be another Saban, and that would be far fetched, but I think he has what it takes to win a couple, or a few nattys, rather than just 1. We need someone who will win more than just 1 natty.

I’ve been there from the start. Aranda is the guy for LSU.

Aranda it is, let's roll