re: Kiffin is no different than any other OC at bama

Y'all are forgetting that all those Bama QB's were fortunate enough to play on teams with arse kicking defenses that helped cover for their mistakes. Hell this season alone Bama's defense has bailed out Hurts' arse several times. If any of those QB's listed played on teams with average defense's, none of them would have any hardware at all.

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Kiffin turned Blake Sims into a better QB than our god, Mettenberger

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Exactly, You think Blake Sims and Jake Coker are more talented than Brandon Harris or Mett. No they are not yet they sure looked a lot better.
Bama's Ol last year finished in the bottom half of the SEC in TFL and Sacks and this year is a little better. Greg Gilmore our worst defensive player and had one his best games against their OL

Remember their success also has a lot to do with a dominant OLine

The major difference is Kiffin has had far inferior QBs to work with for various reasons and still churned out major numbers.

Kiffin has had a RB (Sims), a transfer (Coker) and a true freshman, and made them all look great. He is the real deal. But I am sure there are other options too that would be great at LSU. I would have no issues with the hiring of Kiffin. he will be light years ahead of what we have had in last nine years.

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Hard to argue with you there

But our fans will argue against stone cold facts until they are blue in the face. Once an Lsu fan gets a hold of a "feeling" or "emotion", there is no letting go

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no offense, but this is a complete cop out. What I absolutely loathe about these boards and arguing about coaches is most seem to take it as you are either for this guy or against him. No simply evaluating the coaches on the merits.

He makes some interesting comps to the overall Bama offense, he does leave out some relevant facts, like for example 2010 was a multi-year starter in McElroy and 2011-2013 was the same QB, the last 3 years have been different QB's with different skill sets.

He also ignores the fact that Kiffin was an OC BEFORE going to Bama and the 2005-2006 USC offense were pretty damn good, 2005 USC has a case as GOAT offense;

USC ppg pass rush ypg ypp
2004: 38.2 271.7 177.4 449.1 6.3
2005: 49.1 319.8 260.0 579.8 7.5

2004 was Norm Chow, 2005 was Kiffin, please note the primary skill players (QB, RB, WR) were the same players both years.