re: Anybody else have the feeling we're going to end up with someone from our second tier?

Aranda isn’t on my second tier. He’s on my 1st tier and top 3 .

ok, but other then Favre, their paths and background to success are similar.

Napier is good at what he does, but its 5 levels lower than all things LSU.

so was meyer, brian kelly, chris peterson etc

P5 coaches dont normally move and no Napier path is nothing like Hallman.

Curley Hallman was probably a good teacher of old school football fundamentals. He was likely most qualified to be a DB coach at the college level, nothing more. All you had to do was listen to the man speak for 30 seconds to know he didn’t have the organizational acumen to run a major college football program.

If you have done even a minimal amount of research on Napier you’d quickly learn why he’s so highly regarded in the football coach world. Ideally, sure, it’d be nice if he’d spent his last three years coaching at a P5 program. But each case, each coach is different.

When picking coaches the really bright ADs have the ability to find the next great coach. And if he thinks it’s Billy Napier I have full confidence Woodward will hire him, regardless of what some fans will find comforting. When he wins they’ll come around.

Bottom line is Napier is qualified. Maybe not to all of the water cooler ADs out there, but to those who know he’s worth every consideration.

Side note RE: Hallman. He was being interviewed after one of the many losses LSU suffered under his watch. He said turnovers once again hurt the team. Specifically he said, “Turnovers have been our Achilles’ tendon all year.” All you could do was shake your head.

Bull fricking shite. If we end up with napier, aranda, or tucker and dont at least steal kiffin from ole miss. I will be livid.

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Tucker as a DC.

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but he's no Curly Hallman

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uh, nether of them won a conference championship at the level they were coaching. If you are not proving yourself to be head and shoulders above other G5 teams, and coaches, then you are most certainly not ready for the SEC.

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All you had to do was listen to the man speak for 30 seconds

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If you have done even a minimal amount of research on Napier you’d quickly learn why he’s so highly regarded in the football coach world.

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Because Napier talks nice? Why is how they talk always so important? You know theres a level of coach where they dont sound like a dumbass AND they have a good/experienced coaching resume?

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Bottom line is Napier is qualified.

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Where's the evidence he's qualified based on whats provable? Just pointing to how he talks and the behind the scenes "respect" isn't selling me that he's a superior candidate to the other coaches within his tier (Mel Tucker, Dave Aranda).

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but to those who know he’s worth every consideration.

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Another, "people who know say he's good". This is bullshite. Why is all of this respect so silent? Show me what hes done on the field.

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He said turnovers once again hurt the team. Specifically he said, “Turnovers have been our Achilles’ tendon all year.” All you could do was shake your head.

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Yes, well there are a lot of decent coaches who dont talk like dumbasses. Just because Napier "sounds nice" doesnt make him a better candidate than your Riley, Kiffin, or Fickell.

I place Napier firmly in the Tucker and Aranda tier. I think Aranda is ahead of him simply because he's been at LSU and has seen exactly what success at LSU looks like and he's one of the best defensive minds in the land. Aranda is also proving at Baylor that being a defensive minded HC doesn't mean you will lack on the offensive side of the ball.

Aranda has been at Wisconsin and LSU, both large programs with national prominence and now he's been a head man at Baylor with success.