re: The Coach Orgeron Vision/Plan

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The man at the top must be flexible enough to make changes that are absolutely necessary to keep the program at or near the top. The last guy here failed to do that. Coach O will.

This is the future right now.

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I hear a common style between Aranda & Canada which I like. Maximize the current athletes in a way that creates mis-matches. It's almost like they gave the same intro speech but with different styles. Aranda's D will continue to get better. He's still talking about the D's failure in the aTm game...which was a game which was never in doubt. That says a lot about Aranda. Canada sounds like a future HC but he's unproven at LSU. What he did to Clemson is amazing but that's one game. He's beaten teams with better talent which leads me to believe that his scheme works. He will have more (overall) talent at LSU than he's ever coached.

CEO can focus on what he does best. Recruit, inspire, and motivate. People may argue that we could have hired a better HC than O but could we have done that and had Aranda & Canada? Could we have done that and retained O who was a long time LSU target and I know that I didn't want to lose him. The last guy failed to maximize the strengths of his coaching staff yet he had the highest payroll in the country.

In reality, the Miles firing had very little impact on LSU or CEO's current class. We probably missed a few that were leaning LSU but that's to be expected when your ace is focussed on coaching hires. It's going to be a wild ride up to NSD.