re: If Brennan is not injured this year, is O still the coach?

if Brennan doesn't get injured and we don't have all those other injuries, then we probably do go 9-3 or better. Without the distraction of trying to get a new HC we probably would have gotten NIL rolling and had $17 million available for NIL. We would end up with at least a top 3 class, right there with Bama, aTm, and Georgia. Jones had the defense playing like gangbusters by the end of the season. Big learning curve for Peetz as a first time OC (?).
Takes a little time to learn to be an OC in the SEC (even Burrough took a year at QB to learn how to QB in the SEC) but he would have gotton it down or O would have got some help for him.
Brennan would be going into his 2nd season as a SEC starter and we would be loaded with talent everywhere but on the O-line, which with the bankroll we would have, that could have easily been addressed. Would be competing right there with Bama for the SEC west and Georgia for the SEC championship. 2022 could have been another NC season.

But Brennan got hurt, the season went in the toilet, and now it's time to make a new start with BK.