What do Arnsparger, Saban, and Kelly have in common?

So none of them are Mike Archer. Whew.

For ref:

Archer 59.8%
Hallman 36.4%
Dinardo 57.0%

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Miles inherited a gold mine of talent

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That may explain 3 of his 11 years.

And Kelly,……absolutely did not.

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Miles inherited a gold mine of talent

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Apparently also inherited a gold mine of extending eligibility to make Saban s players last 11 years.

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That was 6 years after Saban had left.

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The point is not that he was winning with Saban's players, it's that his record was not tarnished during a rebuild.

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from what I remember he hated recruiting and went back to the NFL. I am guessing our recruiting suffered.

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This is often the belief around here but I’d say that while he may not have liked to recruit, he was pretty good at it. His team in 87 that was coached by archer could have won the natty imo

Also, he didn’t go back to NFL from LSU. He went to be AD at Florida

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And Kelly,……absolutely did not.

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I may be misreading what you are saying but Kelly inherited a team that almost had to cancel a bowl game against Kansas State due to a lack of scholarship players.
I love Coach O for 2019 and always will, but he left LSU in a terrible position.

The Dinardo era was not that bad.

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from what I remember he hated recruiting

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He was a really good recruiter; you may be thinking of Archer, who was not a good recruiter, though he was a good coach, contrary to popular opinion here. Archer was just too young, IMO, and it killed what looked to be a promising career.

Archer was the hot young DC at the time.