Dave Aranda may be the biggest unsung hero in LSU Football History

It is absolutely insane how great of a defensive coordinator Dave Aranda was at LSU. He is easily the best defensive coordinator in school history and IMO one of the best coaches, regardless of position, in the 130 year history of our program. Everything that has happened since has pretty much helped prove that.

It is hilariously going back to 2019 and seeing all the retards led by one The Pirate King feeding the propoganda that he was holding Ed Orgeron back and that he was going to cost us a national championship. "FiRe ARaNdA!!!!"

Aranda's 4 years at LSU resulted in:
2016 - 5th ranked defense in the nation
2017 - 14th ranked defense in the nation
2018 - 26th ranked defense in the nation
2019 - 33rd ranked defense in the nation

The year before Aranda:
2015 - 41st ranked defense in the nation (Kevin Steele)

The year after Aranda:
2020 - 99th ranked defense in the nation (Bo Pelini)

In 2021, we are sitting with the 108th ranked defense in the nation after 1 game. Sure that can improve but I will bet my life that we don't see a top 40 defensive season.

Let's not forget that Aranda did all of this during the evolution of the spread offense in the SEC and the nation. He did this without Les Miles running clock on offense which meant fewer defensive plays for the defense. Ed Orgeron owes this job to Dave Aranda. Without a stout defense in 2016 the idiot O doesn't get this job.

Aranda literally helped keep this ship afloat IN SPITE of our head coach. IMO, he is the one that really held this program together. Aranda had 100% control of the defense in his 4 years here. He didn't allow O to meddle and micromanage him. He was the calm voice to Orgeron's wacko gorilla macho man bullshite.

A great pattern for Orgeron and Ponamsky is shitting on the people who got them where they are. Two con artists who pulled the ultimate con in 2019 but have shown their con ways every season they have been at LSU since. They shite on Culotta and blacklist other journalists (Culotta, Moscona, etc...).

Aranda was so incredible at his job that Orgeron's arrogant arse hated how much praise his assistant coach got and hated that everyone viewed Aranda as an X's and O's genius. What does he do? Throw him under the bus when he leaves and makes promises that our 2020 defense was the best he'd seen in August 2020. He was so arrogant that he switched to a 4-3 because he perceived that Aranda was holding the team back with the 3-4. Orgeron wanted the praise. He wanted a 4-3 to "attack" yet it is becoming harder and harder to run that formation in modern college football.

You know O switching to a 4-3 was a big "frick that motherfricker" moment from Orgeron to Aranda (who hilariously saved Orgeron's arse repeatedly). O thought he could just switch defenses and it would work because he thinks himself as superior to Aranda. frick O.

We owe a shite ton to Aranda for not allowing this program to fall to very bad depths from 2016 to 2019).