re: Many around the program – and outside of it – compare the scheme Ensminger is implementing

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Part of Saban's advantage is in his (and some of his more longer-term personnel) ability to manage the two staffs, thereby maximizing the advantage (the man is all about efficiency).

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So while just having the staff probably will lead to improvements, it will be up to Orgeron (and couple others) to determine if it turns into significant improvements.

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Right.

These type of staffers provide analytics. But what good do analytics do for a coach when he makes decisions off of emotion, his gut or because of what happened this one time he had the same decision and it didn't work out? They don't do a damn thing.

I believe certain coaches benefit greatly from analytics, but only because that's how their mind works anyway, dealing in probabilities and advanced metrics. If you've never used them in the first place I doubt you'd be able to gain an appreciation for their application to the game.

I can understand gleaning certain things from coaches but every coach has to ultimately have his own core identity. I don't know what that is for us.