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I'm a Cajuns fan - Aranda is the better choice over Napier
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:21 pm
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:21 pm
I watch every Cajuns game. So I feel I have a very good understanding of Napier's strengths/weaknesses.
He's clearly extremely skilled at program building. What he did with the mess Hud left is remarkable.
He knows how to run a program and if he got the LSU job, I think he'd do well.
But...
He kinda sucks as a gameday coach. He makes some unbelievably bad decisions at times that he has mostly lucked out from.
Go back and look at last year's App St. game at the end of the season. The Cajuns won but it's a minor miracle. They literally couldn't complete a long snap but there were no adjustments and some HORRIBLE decisions down the stretch bailed out by a bad K on App St.
I'm also not really impressed with his offense. I really don't know what our identity is. I don't see anything super innovative though. Again, he's a very good coach, but Aranda is in another league.
Aranda is probably one of the smartest coaches in the game. He adjusts his personnel based on their skill not his scheme.
He has first hand knowledge of what wins at LSU.
He is not the in your face rah rah guy. Good. Those guys are usually idiots.
Question: If LSU recruits itself (it does), then why do you need some dipshit salesman like O?
Aranda has zero character concerns. He's smart and will recruit smarter players rather than just every retard with 5 stars.
Bottom line, Napier and Aranda would both succeed at LSU. I just give the edge to Aranda.
I'd prefer either of them to some of the human scum suggested on here like Urban, Freeze, etc.
He's clearly extremely skilled at program building. What he did with the mess Hud left is remarkable.
He knows how to run a program and if he got the LSU job, I think he'd do well.
But...
He kinda sucks as a gameday coach. He makes some unbelievably bad decisions at times that he has mostly lucked out from.
Go back and look at last year's App St. game at the end of the season. The Cajuns won but it's a minor miracle. They literally couldn't complete a long snap but there were no adjustments and some HORRIBLE decisions down the stretch bailed out by a bad K on App St.
I'm also not really impressed with his offense. I really don't know what our identity is. I don't see anything super innovative though. Again, he's a very good coach, but Aranda is in another league.
Aranda is probably one of the smartest coaches in the game. He adjusts his personnel based on their skill not his scheme.
He has first hand knowledge of what wins at LSU.
He is not the in your face rah rah guy. Good. Those guys are usually idiots.
Question: If LSU recruits itself (it does), then why do you need some dipshit salesman like O?
Aranda has zero character concerns. He's smart and will recruit smarter players rather than just every retard with 5 stars.
Bottom line, Napier and Aranda would both succeed at LSU. I just give the edge to Aranda.
I'd prefer either of them to some of the human scum suggested on here like Urban, Freeze, etc.
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Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:23 pm to ghost2most
I agree!
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:25 pm to ghost2most
Good post!
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:29 pm to ghost2most
Great insight. He really could be the next Saban
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:30 pm to ghost2most
quote:
Go back and look at last year's App St. game at the end of the season. The Cajuns won but it's a minor miracle. They literally couldn't complete a long snap but there were no adjustments and some HORRIBLE decisions down the stretch bailed out by a bad K on App St.
App St was the worst. He does make a couple bad decisions per game. His team fights hard and are well trained.
If you look at the kick 6 play between Bama and AU in 2013, you will see that is the worst coach decision of all time. The possibility of making that FG was well below the bad things that could happen (Blocked FG for a score or kick 6). All coaches make bone head decisions from time to time. This was the worst I have seen,
This post was edited on 11/3/21 at 2:31 pm
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:31 pm to ghost2most
Good stuff
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:32 pm to ghost2most
Agreed, Aranda has become my #1 choice if I were hiring the coach.
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:32 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Thanks for your interesting take. Like you mentioned In Napier's game day decisions. Every little detail of every candidate needs to be thoroughly scrutinized. That's why we have Scott doing his homework. Weighing all the evidence, pro and con, on each possible hire.
This post was edited on 11/3/21 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:34 pm to ghost2most
quote:You don't say.
Aranda is in another league.
Listen, I'm not fully onboard the Napier bandwagon, but some of the examples you cite are endemic to the division he's coaching in. Remember back in the Florida game when LSU's guy forgot to block on the first punt? That's likely a highly-recruited player who is starting on a Division I team, yet he completely spaced on his assignment. Move down the chain to lower college tiers, and you see the same thing. Move down farther to HS, and there are mistakes all day. Hell, even move up to the NFL and you'll see players miss things occasionally. Not saying that's what happened in your examples, but I'm inclined to give Napier a little slack in light of his overall record, the trainwreck he took over, and the caliber of players available at his level.
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:40 pm to ghost2most
Aranda reminds me of Tony Dungy and Tom Landry. Both smart, high-intergrity coaches that garner respect from their players just because of how they carry themselves and behave, but also smart, innovative coaches as well. Someone posted the Baylor/Aranda press conference and I was impressed. Very authentic person and he has the results as a coach as well. He'd be good for LSU and the SEC IMO.
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:45 pm to logansrun
For more clarity, UL could literally not snap the ball to the punter. He sailed it over the punters head like three times in a row.
UL is up 24-17 and he sails the ball over the Punters head for a safety. Now 24-19.
UL stops App St on a 4th down and gets the ball back with about 2 minutes left.
1st down run and App St calls TO.
2nd down run and App St calls TO.
3rd and 2 and they PASS in the freaking rain...Incomplete. While letting App save its final TO.
1:45 left and here's where it just gets retarded stupid. He decides to take an intentional safety because he's so terrified of punting because they can't complete the snap.
So instead of a 5-point game in rainy cold weather, he cuts the lead to 3 and gives App St. a short field to tie.
I understand the snaps were an issue. He could have literally taken a shotgun snap and pooch punted and it would have been better. Or fricking even going for it was smarter. He gave up two points to push them back 20 yards.
They were on their own 28. Let's say the ball only goes 25 yards. Likely would go longer considering no one would be back to field it.
So they take a S cutting the score to 3 and give App St. the ball at their own 45 with one timeout left.
Predictably, App St gets into easy FG range and their K choked a 30 yarder.
It was one of the most horribly coached games I've ever seen.
UL is up 24-17 and he sails the ball over the Punters head for a safety. Now 24-19.
UL stops App St on a 4th down and gets the ball back with about 2 minutes left.
1st down run and App St calls TO.
2nd down run and App St calls TO.
3rd and 2 and they PASS in the freaking rain...Incomplete. While letting App save its final TO.
1:45 left and here's where it just gets retarded stupid. He decides to take an intentional safety because he's so terrified of punting because they can't complete the snap.
So instead of a 5-point game in rainy cold weather, he cuts the lead to 3 and gives App St. a short field to tie.
I understand the snaps were an issue. He could have literally taken a shotgun snap and pooch punted and it would have been better. Or fricking even going for it was smarter. He gave up two points to push them back 20 yards.
They were on their own 28. Let's say the ball only goes 25 yards. Likely would go longer considering no one would be back to field it.
So they take a S cutting the score to 3 and give App St. the ball at their own 45 with one timeout left.
Predictably, App St gets into easy FG range and their K choked a 30 yarder.
It was one of the most horribly coached games I've ever seen.
This post was edited on 11/3/21 at 2:48 pm
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:49 pm to FCP
quote:
Listen, I'm not fully onboard the Napier bandwagon, but some of the examples you cite are endemic to the division he's coaching in. Remember back in the Florida game when LSU's guy forgot to block on the first punt? That's likely a highly-recruited player who is starting on a Division I team, yet he completely spaced on his assignment. Move down the chain to lower college tiers, and you see the same thing. Move down farther to HS, and there are mistakes all day. Hell, even move up to the NFL and you'll see players miss things occasionally. Not saying that's what happened in your examples, but I'm inclined to give Napier a little slack in light of his overall record, the trainwreck he took over, and the caliber of players available at his level.
See my post above about what happened. It was 100 percent coaching decisions. His decision making and strategy were amateur at best. I've seen smarter calls by kids on Madden.
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:57 pm to Tigers1868
quote:
Great insight. He really could be the next Saban
Saban is an excellent recruiter though. If Aranda is going to depend on the state of LA to recruit itself he won't be the next Saban. Saban has his dad's salesmanship.
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:58 pm to ghost2most
One of the most rational takes I’ve seen on this board.
Posted on 11/3/21 at 2:59 pm to ghost2most
quote:People might think you're exaggerating. You're not.
For more clarity, UL could literally not snap the ball to the punter. He sailed it over the punters head like three times in a row.
I've never seen anything like it before or since.
Posted on 11/3/21 at 3:01 pm to ghost2most
I don’t need to be convinced on the worth of Aranda, as I’d be thrilled with him being our next HC, but the insight on Napier is appreciated. 
Posted on 11/3/21 at 3:07 pm to Epaminondas
quote:
People might think you're exaggerating. You're not.
I've never seen anything like it before or since.
It was insane.
I've also never seen a coach take a safety to cut a lead from 5 to 3 with nearly two minutes left and the other team still has a timeout.
The safety took points away and gained exactly 20 yards of field position.
And that's just one game. he's done some other very goofy shite.
Posted on 11/3/21 at 3:09 pm to ghost2most
Solid post!
Posted on 11/3/21 at 3:43 pm to ghost2most
quote:
I've also never seen a coach take a safety to cut a lead from 5 to 3 with nearly two minutes left and the other team still has a timeout.
WOW. That is some Les Miles Level Stupidity there.
Posted on 11/3/21 at 3:47 pm to ghost2most
quote:
It was insane.
No it wasn’t
They had multiple snaps go over the punters head and one directly led to an App State touchdown.
They didn’t want to have to deep snap again. It was the right decision. Better to safety kick it with a lead than send the ball over the punter’s head again and lose it that way.
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