Keep it real Sundays

1) Aranda will be the hire 2)Politics was the deciding factor.

The hire: coach needs to be in place essentially early december. Will need to have some semblance of continuity with O just to save recruiting. Being able to accept BR. More than likely willing to accept many of the current staff. But most importantly for Woodward, someone who doesn't have a larger than life outspoken personality that outshines, whether in a good or bad way, the program and yes the AD and administrators. Let's keep it real, everyone on this board are LSU enthusiasts and 95% of us wouldn't recognize Aranda in public even if he was walking mike the tiger. If it was a true meritocracy and all things were equal, Luke Fickell is currently most qualifed. But lets keep it real (im gonna say that a lot) he will probably do us like Hermann and use us in bargainning/he will coaching til mid Jan in playoffs. All other college coaches allegedly in the running are just "meh". Aranda is the easy choice checking all those boxes above as well as.....

Politics: let's keep it real. The people running the show at LSU has had a target on coach o for well over a year now and possibly back dated into 2019 for purely politically reasons. Coach 0 did himself no favors, the combo of bad hires last year and performance this year was enough to pull the trigger. But those running the show have two distinguishing things about them: they believe using the power of public institutions they lead to institute change in the form of equity and if you oppose them or their plan to do so, you are persona non grata aka you're canceled. Enough has been revealed to prove such. Woodward said Tate said it was time to go. The SI article was a little too deep about how O's political stances or comments were "wrong think". The leaks and spin around the title 9 investigation (not the core facts) all had an intended political affect. Leaks were given to journalists with a clear agenda to hurt LSU (the same ones who destoryed Baylor in cases we now know were lies) and quite a few athletes privacy became collateral damage at in an attempt to coroborate the desired agenda to pain everything beyond Miles and Guice as criminal. This is not just a hire about bringing in the first black or minority coach. Im black, and ive been attending games regularly every year *except last year* since 2004 and I can attest to how truly welcoming and progressive tiger fans are. If they know you truly hired the right and best person, at this point no one cares. I truly believe that. For political reasons O was a marked man, he got got as soon as the chance presented itself and lets keep it real, Woodward is being forced to considered politics and how it will play with certain people for the next hire.

A lot i had to say yes, but let's keep it real...Aranda is the easy hire.