re: Why Kiffin over Napier??

Because your average fan pretends that defense isn't a thing in football anymore even though it definitely is (hint, conventional wisdom in 2019 right before the playoffs was that LSU wouldn't make it over the finish line because ~20th ranked defense is generally too poor to win a natty). He's also funny meme man who posts on twitter a lot. Anyone actually looking at things objectively is going to pick Napier in a head to head. Recruiting especially needs to be pointed out. I don't want to put Napier on the same level as the truly elite recruiters like Saban, Smart, and Urban, but when he was at Bama he was definitely one of the top assistants recruiting wise.

Kiffin obviously has a higher ceiling if he ever learns to be organized and how to recruit+coach a defense, but that's a lot of ifs and Napier has already figured out all that stuff. You'd never guess looking at how ULL plays that as a coach his preference is a pass first offense that lights up the scoreboard, but that's what his background is.

For a reminder, Napier is also an offensive coach. There's not a program in the country that wouldn't give him a call to be their new OC if there was an opening and they thought he'd take it. He's no Kiffin as a pure OC that doesn't need to worry about recruiting, but he'd be the best offensive head coach LSU has had this century by a wide margin (I'm too young to talk about anyone pre Saban).