how much more optimistic/excited would you be with a different OC hire

maybe its a good thing but for me that's everything right now, the only thing keeping my hopes in check.

this defense could be the equivalent of the 2007 offense (meaning it could break just about every record we have). under Aranda, White has the ability to put up the best numbers we've ever seen from an LSU LB. and this might be the best pair of CBs we've had starting at once, so factor in that Delpit played better as a Fr S than Jamal Adams did, and this could be the best secondary we've ever had. thats gonna give KLC and the rest of the DL an extra second they didn't need to begin with.

we should honestly be legit NC contenders based on the defense alone.

Id would have loved to have paired Aranda with Yurcich from OK State. I think that offense is plug and play, so even if he was only a temp it still would have given us an instant spark and the shift in momentum we desperately need. the program won't be "fixed" by a good season this year, but it can be seriously fricked by a bad season.

since coming back to life in 2000, even our worst seasons were decent, we've never had a 4-8 like Notre Dame two years ago, so as bleak as things feel now, as bad as the national disrespect is now, what happens if we actually bottom out?