To the Aranda for HC folks

I agree about Aranda. Kiffin or Fleck for me!

Aranda would have a process. 0 has processed food. So there’s that.

if i had to guess, most people are intrigued by his film commitment and his attention to details..........like another certain someone who has roamed the sidelines here before. not suggesting they're in the same stratosphere, but can see the reasons for optimism.

If there was a homerun candidate right now, I’d say get him but they’ve all been grabbed.

He’s young and seems like the complete opposite of O

He’s going somewhere to be a HC someday and will be a good one. If we make another dumb hire following O, we are going to lose him. I can’t see him working for two incompetent coaches in a row.

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Besides being a great DC, what makes you believe he’d be a great head coach?

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I've already said that we wouldn't know before hand...which would be the very same issue for promoting ANY well thought of coordinator at any level, right?

So if we are not going to find a PROVEN successful head coach (and that clearly was not a precedent when hiring Orgeron as anyone who can understand basic math knows) and we look to an up and coming coordinator, then arguably the best DC in the country would have to be on the short list...right?

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Not charismatic, not a great recruiter, so what would make him fit to lead a big program?

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Charismatic is overblown. Belechick is as charismatic as an ingrown toenail and Saban is not much more then that. From everything we hear from players they like and respect his knowledge for the game and that in itself is magnetic to someone wanting to learn and improve. Recruiting is important, but who knows how well he could close when running his own program with assistants that are themselves proven recruiters.

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For the record, I’d take him over O, but neither are qualified for the LSU HC job imo.

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Orgeron certainly is not. We hired a coach with a sub .500 career coaching record to lead a program that has won 2 national titles since 2003 and played for a third. It's almost impossible to type that ou and still believe I'm awake. Aranda is qualified but unproven. Tons of prestigious program have and will continue to pull up coordinators to run their programs. No hire is fool proof...but you hire the best available coach and then see what happens. As Aranda is a Top 3 DC in the nation now, he's unquestionably qualified to run his own Power 5 program should that be the direction he want to go.

Does Aranda even recruit at all? I just never see him meeting with recruits like I do other coaches. I really don't know.

He couldn't help close the deal on that 5* CB either. Who really knows.

If by some miracle, Ensminger wants to run a fast paced offense, another "power" struggle will take place.

I like Aranda.... but we need to clean house on the next HC hire.

Someone is going to pick him up as a HC and he is going to be awesome and we will have missed out on that which is right under our nose.