re: I have no idea if this a "legitimate" sauce.

If Curtis Johnson was the guy at least you'd know they'd be solid at developing WR's.

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"Canada is the one that went to Alleva when O tried to tweak his game plan for Troy" "The tweaks were less shifts and motions and more straight ahead football".


I at least give credit to O for that. The shifts and motions were a distraction and waste of time for our team.

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"O wants a coordinator that has an innovative scheme but will take input on tempo and protections based on the opponent's defense" "Aranda would be part of that input process. That's the reason Aranda was part of the meeting with O and Canada after Troy."


So Canada didn't want to hear from an excellent minded defensive coach on what he saw opponents doing? Wow.

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The reasoning behind the shifts is to see how the defense will react and try to find the mismatch based off of that information gained. The exact same concept that Dave Aranda tries to do with his packages, creating a mismatch. The difference is Canada's offense is reactionary while Aranda's defense forces the mismatches. They're not just doing it for the hell of it.

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so then....not the offense you hired him to implement

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Well it depends on how you interpret that. It actually lines up with what O was quoted saying which was to reduce "some" of the shifts and motions and simplify the offense. This was after all the penalties early on and after the Miss St game. I've said all along I don't fault O for requesting this based on what the offense was doing. I just wondered if his approach to Canada and exact direction was an issue. If the "source" is correct then Canada was the one that overreacted.

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I took that to mean for the Troy game. You don't have to be fancy to beat them. Just smash em in the mouth

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That's the way it was told to me.

Basically, "Let's take Troy coming to town as an opportunity to cut back on the penalties and work on the straight ahead run game and the route tree."

But my Molotov cocktails are already prepped....

his assistant went to the AD

Did Orgeron ask Aranda to scale back his defense after Miss State and Syracuse? The defense got worked up and down the field those two games. Several key penalties on the defense as well.

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Ed doesn’t have the clout to hire who he wants. He also didn’t have the respect of his assistant so he went to the AD

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When Canada ratfinked to the Alleva, it broke trust. In all organizations when you leapfrog over your direct boss and rat them out like a sissy, it ALWAYD destroys the relationship. From what I hear, EVERYBODY on the staff hated Canada.

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"O's first choice is Freeze. Was told it would never get past the board. O has asked for a chance to state his case for Freeze face to face with any board members that have concerns."

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So is Freeze potentially still in the mix?

Maybe the NOLA.com article was strategically timed for this AM. With O's connections in the media, anything's possible.

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Canada as trying to save us

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