re: What it Comes Down to: Coach O's Plan is a Revolving Door of Coordinators

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Most successful coaches have a revolving door of coordinators. Saban has more turnover than anyone.

Not a fan of the hire, but let's not be dishonest.

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I'm not being dishonest, please read everything though.

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Not building a strong offense and defensive philosophy. You can't do that if your philosophy is changing year in and year out and you yourself don't have a "philosophy."

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He has no overall gameplan identity. I believe this is precisely why he is successful as an interim coach. He doesn't impose his will, but that also means he doesn't do anything. Coach O is useless on the sideline. Why did Les not step aside for Coaches? Because this was "his team" he was in the presser, he was taking the shots. This is why the idea of this "Coordinator plan" mixing with the usual arrogance of Head Coaches doesn't work. Even someone mild mannered like Les had to get involved.

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Of course coordinators leave, and it happens often. But does Saban walk to Alabama and say, "I can't really coach anyone, so my plan is to always make sure I have the best coordinators."

No. Saban has a very tight defensive philosophy that drives everything he does. His OC's have have short leashes because everything they do is driven to do x, y, and z, always in service to how he AS A HEAD COACH, approaches the game. He's flexible, but he also has a core idea of he approaches football and this is how he plans for games, hires coordinators, and makes sure that his vision is achieved every time they step on the field.

This is how high level coaches operate. They know what their approach to the game is and everything is in service to that. That's called team identity, and it was a massive problem for a Miles lead team since his vision was far more inflexible, and he had his hands in anything, without really a driving principle.

O is basically saying, I have no gameplan principles, my coordinators will have their own principles and I will make sure to always replace the coordinators that leave, who will have their own new principles for this team.

LSU's identity will become motivation and good feelings and will have nothing to do with a core philosophy because O doesn't have one.

Getting "the best coordinator on the market" is useless if you are not doing it to drive your vision.