re: If you agree that Coach O was not the right hire at the time...

Why not Aranda?

Georgia seemed to do alright in hiring a a defensive coordinator with no prior head coaching experience.

mullen would crush with our talent

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With the benefit of hindsight I'm thinking maybe Mullen

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Even without hindsight I thought at the time Mullen would have been a good hire. But the problem was not who we hired, rather how we hired him. Without going through the process of a coaching search, how can we have any confidence that Orgeron was the best option available?

I was hoping we’d pay either Herman or Jimbo whatever they wanted. Signing Aranda to a 2 year contract would have been my third choice

The issu is much deeper than simply hiring O.

As much as I dislike him as head coach, at least if Alleva has done a proper search and could literally get no one else, it would be easier to accept.

The fact is, Alleva had almost an entire season to find, vet and hire a competent head coach. And after his first 2 choices didn’t drop down and kiss his arse, he said “frick it, I’ve got a d line coach who wants it”.

He said “I am the search” and did t even search beyond choices A,B and last resort.

I thought firing Miles at the time of the year that they did was a bad move.

I think when you are going to fire a coach, you wait until the end or just before the end of the season. I think the outcome last year would have been the same had Miles stayed. I think that when you fire a guy like Miles who is perhaps the winningest coach by percentage in the program's history (or very close to it) it poisons the well of potential big or even up and coming coaching candidates. I know of from a board member that Alleva couldn't get beyond the initial phone call with at least two of the names on the back up list

If we had not fired Miles after the Auburn game and waited or fired him on Thanksgiving night 2 years ago, I think we would have gotten a coach that would have made some of you on TD cream in your pants.

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Is this where I list the coach I wanted and then you list his record this year and how Orgeron was just as good or better than that guy, therefore that clearly makes O the superior coach?

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naw, we know the only time records matter is when we are talking about Coach O's tenure at Ole Miss

Completely forgot that Chip Kelly was on the way out of SF last year. He was my #1 and we should’ve waited till he was fired.

If O doesn't get it done that should be our first call.

He is at FAU now and that sets up well for us to get him. Plus he doesn't like Saban at all .

He can recruit and develop QB's.

Bingo you are correct sir. I've said it before , I heard multiple people call in on WWL and basically say he's from here so he should get the job plain and simple. They said his previous stint at Ole Miss didn't matter and that him being a Cajun is what matters most. True story.