How will Pelini do in the pass happy SEC?

You serious, Clark?

Orgeron feels that when you have players in depth the 4 -3 is better at stopping the run and putting pressure on the QB. Pelini also believes this. That’s why they go good together. They believe they have the talent. Since we have lost Farrell, Thomas, Shelvin and Brooks it has taken a hit in depth.

quote:

---

so let’s hope we look more like some of the USC

---

In the present day, many have now doubted Pelini’s scheme working in the modern SEC. Moreover, the transition from Dave Aranda to Pelini is totally radical. Exploring Pelini’s return to the Bayeux, where once again LSU reigns supreme, naturally led to links to the Seahawks.

The obvious is that Pelini is essentially running a slightly tweaked, college-version of Pete Carroll’s defense. The schematic influence of Carroll, himself a disciple of Monte Kiffin’s Tampa 2, is obvious in every Pelini resource I’ve looked at. It’s also evident in Pelini’s résumé.

Bo is going to run Pete Carroll's defense

That’s exactly what I said, O worked for Carroll and hiring a 4-3 DC allows O to get more involved between the lines on something he can really help us out with. Make no mistake about it that’s why he was hired.

Turrible!!

That was an entirely different era of football. Pelini hasn’t fielded a competitive defense on the power5 level in nearly a decade and wasn’t in demand at all. Orgeron hired him so that he could put his personal imprint on the D. O is a very good Dline coach and we have elite secondary coaches, Pelini isn’t a LB guru so why was he hired? Because he had a good run with a defense somebody else built 15 years ago? No he’s there to babysit during the week while O has other responsibilities, this will be Orgerons defense.

Agree. Was not a fan of the Pelini hire either for some of the reasons you point out. With that being said, I didn’t like the O hire either. With the losses to opt outs and NFL we are going to struggle I’m afraid. We still have tons of talent tho but it will benefit us more next year. Hopefully I have a second helping of Crow to eat

quote:

---

We need to get our DL up to champions quality.

---

.

Every fricking year... I’m just sick of hearing this.

The only season Steele has outperformed Aranda was last year while we had 7-8 starters out or injured 2/3 of the season. Once we were healthy we were an elite defense. My post isn’t about predicting any outcome it’s about a phony narrative created by this board. Pelini isn’t a Greg Williams style DC who blitzes all the time and one poster even gave examples of him trying to copy Pete Carroll’s defense, a coach who’s almost always in the bottom 5 of blitzing NFL defenses. You couple that with where Pelini was, his performance of late and Orgeron starting to assume more control on D even last season and it’s easy to see what’s happening. IT’S NOT A BAD THING, fit and control here is likely good for Orgeron. But if we have growing pains our fans will bitch and scream about blitzing and false advertising when in fact they created the falsity.