re: How Ed Orgeron outsmarted college football

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Says that Orgeron is putting so much pressure on other programs because of the way LSU was able to keep the same personnel and completely flip their offensive philosophy to run this offense flawlessly.

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What's most interesting about this change is - the Patrick Surtain, Jr. incident notwithstanding, the current staff is packed with elite recruiters. Aranda is about the only introvert that the player kind of has to be enamored of Aranda and the defensive style, if O, Pork Chop or Raymond can't get it done on personality.

So, with an elite recruiting staff (that is doing extraordinarily well outside of our traditional recruiting base - best I can remember) AND the ability to turn the offense in one year is remarkable.

Having said all of that - we've been here before - we've been 5-0. This is all window dressing until we get to the playoffs. Through 1/9/2012, we were arguably the best team of the previous 10 years.

Since then? We're an occasionally great team that remains on the outside looking in.