re: nightmare scenario #2 (bebe coaching elsewhere)

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using the rationale to keep O, why would you not also use the same rationale to keep Ensminger? if O "earned" the HC job, why wouldn't Ensminger have earned the OC job?

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I'll tell you why, bc replacing O means replacing everyone probably Aranda also which would be the biggest mistake LSU could make! LSU would be another year maybe two years behind on D. You replace everyone you get transfers, decommits, new offense, defense, new terminology, the new recruits could take 2 years to learn all this and Etling could also regress in a new system. He will most def have to learn a lot in the off season and we could waste his senior year. Depends on what happens the rest of the year but replacing the OC is NOTHING like replacing HC. If he wins out you keep him and most of the staff together plus ARANDA! Keep everything Miles was successful at in place and change only a few things could be the ticket for Os success.

You can't compare his OM tenure with what he would do here it's been over a decade and he's been on 2 legendary HC's staff since, the man has learned much much more about running a program since then. It's not fair to the man, what is his record or would be his record since learning about the failures? If he wins out it would be 13-2 in the regular season. If he wins the SEC and Bowl game it would be 15-2!! That's pretty impressive at two big schools in USC and LSU.

If O wins out he deserves the shot or if he keeps this team looking good GE deserves the shot. He's not going crazy on the sideline in fact I see a very calm HC even when losing he was pretty damn confident on the sideline and it made me confident that the man knew they hadn't showed them the big guns just yet. I'm sure that confidence spills into the assistants and players also. It's not fake confidence as I saw with Miles it is real like he knows what his team can do when they open it up. They did that and destroyed OM. There is also a huge difference in coaching at LSU in 2016 and coaching at OM in 2005!!! Huge!! I'm sure he felt enormous pressure to get the best talent there no matter their grades or issues off the field, he doesn't have that problem at LSU so stop with all this nonsense because that's exactly what it is. Let's just wait and see what happens the rest of the year and be glad that we can now LOVE watching our Tigers play football again. GT