re: Coach O-his final decision on hires...

From the moment he was named the interim HC Ed IMMEDIATELY began a campaign to try to get the permanent HC job because he knew he wasn't going to be considered as serious candidate otherwise. His "binder" pitch to Alleva had many pages. But the main aspects re: the staff were he was going to keep Aranda as DC and hire Lane Kiffin away from Bama as OC. O had to keep Aranda. It was part of his hail mary effort to get the job. The promise to deliver Kiffin fell through and he had to scramble to find a "name" to fulfill his campaign promises.

So he hired Matt Canada, a hot name at the time. Three games into Canada's LSU tenure O hated the offense and wanted to get rid of him.

So in 2018 he promotes a guy, Ensminger, who was member of the much maligned Miles offensive staff and who didn't really want the OC job because of the burden it would bring upon him at that stage in his career. Think about it. O had to basically BEG a guy, who had no market demand whatsoever, to be the OC.

Going into 2019 ENSMINGER knew his offense wasn't going to elevate the program to the top of the mountain. (Perhaps is was the ZERO points in 8 quarters vs. Alabama, but who knows?). So ENSMINGER happily requested and accepted help from a young analyst on the Saints staff. And he happily ceded much of the load and designing of the approach to that guy. It worked out brilliantly.

In 2020 O had to replace BOTH coordinators. He was doing so following a remarkable championship season at a school with tremendous resources and the willingness to spend huge money to attract top coaches. With that, Ed hires two guys with virtually ZERO market demand to take the positions. It was wreck.

Following that in 2021 Ed has to, again, hire new coordinators. The FIFTH time he's had to hire an OC in five years. The heat is on to make sure he doesn't miss again on these hires. So what does he do? Hires two guys who have never been D-1 coordinators and who have ZERO market demand for their services as coordinators.

Perhaps Peetz/Jones work out the rest of the year. I certainly hope so. But assuming they don't for the sake of argument then that will make SEVEN coordinator hires Ed will have made in 5 years with only ONE producing great results. Does that sound like a good coach who knows what he is doing? Or does it sound like a guy who is just throwing darts at the board blindly and got incredibly lucky one of his seven darts hit the bullseye with the other 6 either barely hitting the board or missing the board completely?

Eddie is failing. No other way to put it.

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it's what a good manager does in the business world-hire good people to get the job done

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Does a good manager promise to hire only the best......

Then hire a has-been with no interview, fire him 1 year later, then hire a replacement with zero experience holding the title he now holds?

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as for x's and o's, I am not in the film room with them-I am not at practice-none of us in here are.

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After last Saturday, I am not sure most of the coaches are in there either.

How long do we live on 2019? He's hired what? 5 + assistance since Brady?

Tell me how those hires have worked out