re: If Ole Miss hires Miles, who will have the better head coach?

Ok. Who exactly was "our guy" in the coaching search? Jimbo? Herman? Who?

LSU probably could have gotten Jimbo if they wanted to pay extortion rates to Jimmy Sexton. Sexton was trying to get 8 million or more for Jimbo and Jimbo was not going to be told who to keep as Coordinators. So were you willing to give Jimbo freedom to run off Aranda and bring in someone else as DC? You would have had wholesale changes on a staff that is probably one of the top 2 or 3 in the country now. Yes Jimbo stayed at FSU but in reality how did the fact that he flirted with LSU for 2 years and held FSU up for more money play with FSU? I know LSU fans grew very tired of Sexton and his routine.

What about Herman? Herman was not coming to LSU. He was always going to Texas. Herman was not a proven head coach no matter what anyone on this board says. The guy lost several games vs. very weak competition such as SMU, UCONN, Memphis (gave up 48 pts)
and won a bunch of games vs the likes of Tulane, Tulsa, Texas State, Lamar, Cincy, and UCF. Yes he beat Louisville (LSU throttled Louisville w/Orgeron) and OU in the 1st game of the season. You don't hire a coach based on winning 1 or 2 games while ignoring the other 85% of the body of his work which was only 2 years at a mid-major level. LSU did that one time in the past with Curley Hallman from Southern Mississippi when he beat FSU. Look how that worked out. A complete and utter disaster. Even Aranda obviously had his doubts because he declined to go to UT with his former roommate and stayed at LSU. That says alot.

Orgeron did a good job salvaging the LSU season after it was obvious that the wheels had come off under Miles. I honestly believe that had LSU waited until the end of the season to get rid of Miles then LSU would have had a losing season and lost many of the staff that stayed on under Orgeron. Aranda being one of them.