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This place was almost completely in wanting either Jimbo or Herman as head coach, and both would’ve been disasters for us if they had panned out.

Instead we got Ed Orgeron, who for all his faults managed to capture lightning in a bottle in 2019, and now we replaced him with an established head coach who has already had a good year under his belt

I have to agree with this post.

I never thought Orgeron was "the man", but I also thought LSU was going to need a transition period after Miles.

Miles, bitch about him all you want, was here a decade, and had a system in place (that had worked)... and it was time for that system to be replaced. And I don't just mean a scheme, I'm talking about the whole system, from workout schedules to HS coach contacts to who answers the phones.
That wasn't going to be easy to do, nor would it be done without resistance, until things broke down.

O came in here, tried to retain some of Miles' system (and tried to put some of his own stuff in), and things ultimately crashed. It worked a couple years, but it crashed hard.

This let Kelly (or whoever else we would hire) come in and put his system in, clean and without resistance.

And we were fortunate it was Kelly, because although he wasn't the most exciting or sexy pick, he has the most established and time-tested system outside of Saban, and maybe Dabo and Urban. No "well I've seen it work over at Bama with Saban, I'll try it", or "it was working here with Miles, so I will stick with it"; it's all "this is what works for me the past few decades, I will do it here now".
Smart is modelling after Saban, with some Richt leftover. Riley is taking Stoops' and mixing his own.
Kelly is rebooting LSU with his own OS.