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

My issue with Orgeron is this: people keep touting the assistants we have (Aranda, Canada). That's all well and fine, until they up and leave.

How valuable is Aranda? Enough so that you legit chose to not pursue a top HC at market value (ie Jimbo), in order to keep Aranda on staff (and Jimbo asking over 7 mil is market value- he's already at a school that can win titles, and his system is in place. If you want him to move, you're going to have to make it worth his while).

If Aranda is that important, you offer HIM the job, and tie him here much more strongly. And you hope he's up to running a program immediately, given his prior experiences with Miles here, and at Wisconsin (2 solidly administrated programs).

I think people are hoping Orgeron is simply the "extended interim HC", with Aranda as associate HC, and he's apprenticing under O to learn all the duties we don't know as fans. If so, that sounds great, but I don't know that O is that selfless that he would hang around a couple years just to let Aranda get comfortable; and I don't know if Aranda would consider such an "under the table" deal as binding or truly secure. My fear with this concept is that Aranda would be groomed, and then scooped up as soon as he's ready, by, say, Alabama if Saban calls it a day (as an example).

If it DOES work out that we groom Aranda and he seamlessly takes over, then I'd say LSU made a brilliant move.
But I think Aranda is the key player here, not Orgeron.