re: A nice Trip Down Memory Lane or How I Barely Survived Being Excoriated by SFP...

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is O a great/elite coach in 2020?

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LSU head coach Ed Orgeron was named the winner of the 2019 Paul "Bear" Bryant Coach of the Year Award. Swinney won the award last season and three of the past four years. Orgeron is the first SEC coach to take home the honor since Gus Malzahn in 2013. It's one of several national coach of the year awards that Orgeron has received for the 2019 season. He also won the Home Depot Coach of the Year, the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year and the Walter Camp Coach of the Year.

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i just don't think people are giving Joe Burrow enough of the credit in this whole situation. he was an already-developed QB with #1 pick/Heisman potential, who, as you said, had TWO year of IMMEDIATE eligibility. we were on the thinnest ice at QB in 2018 and it was an absolute savior moment. i just wish we would have had a real offense in 2018 to give him 2 years of elite play here

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So he had Heisman potential but was riding the pine at Ohio St. He was already developed but didn't set the world on fire in 2018. He's not getting enough credit, but required a very good system and some damn good players around him to be great.

I'm as big a fan of Joey B as anyone. I think he is going to do great in the NFL. The obvious issue is you are using his success to degrade what O has done rather than realizing it's the sum of the parts and that's intellectually dishonest.

I'm confident in saying that if Burrow goes to any other program, Bama and Clemson included, he doesn't mirror the success he had here.