Dave Aranda quote on defensive plan against Bama last year

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"It will be interesting to see with the coordinator change and how much, if anything, changes," Aranda said of Alabama's offense. "Last year, I think some of the success with Alabama came in the multiplicity in everything they did. I think every defensive coach across the nation will have a hit chart, he'll have a formation and have the plays that come out of that formation. And we do that, too, and we put it up in our board room back at LSU -- and we could not fit all of the Alabama formations and plays in our room, so that it extended outside of our room. So we had a Board 1 and then we had a Board 2. And so no other team was like that.

"I think there is an element like that in this league. There's creative people, and I think there's weekly game plans. Auburn has a style that adapts that way. With Alabama, I think there's a copycat philosophy that they had with coach Kiffin, where if he would find a play that hurt you, you would see that. So when you're looking at all the plays that Alabama presented, you had to decipher what plays are their core plays, what plays were just for Mississippi State, what plays were just for Kentucky. See what I mean? And the only way you do that is to go back and look at Kentucky and what plays were they hurt by -- what plays did Kiffin see and is creating just for them. Thank goodness you had the two weeks to prepare. That was a big part of playing. Does that continue? Is it different now? Is it more establish the run?"

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