Immediate coaching staff changes that we need to make

This special teams consulting isn't working.

And I'm not even thinking about placekicking.

Punting is horrendous (sub 100 on avg). Punt coverage is worse, #124 by avg return yards.

66th on KO returns coverage.

And none of this even includes the penalty yards. Finally letting Gamble kick it out of back of endzone should help. The corner kicks sound good in theory, gotta cover for it to be worth it.

And yeah, so done with Grimes.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing , but are you saying we need a strength and conditioning coach who is capable of forcing or convincing players to do their part? Moffitt is as knowledgeable as any person in that field in this country. What exactly are you blaming on Moffitt? Is he not trying hard enough? is he not persuasive enough?

Bring Cochran home from Bama

Moffitt is one of the most respected S&C coaches in the nation. Hell, he mentored Bama's S&C coach. Moffitt didn't get his accolades and good reputation for being sorry at what he does.

Now on to Grimes... yeah, he gotta go.

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This special teams consulting isn't working.

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I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how the current special teams coaching situation is worse than the last few years, where our linebackers coach coached linebackers PLUS all six special teams units. Splitting up the units allows each coach to give each unit more attention.

When's the last time we even had a dedicated special teams coach, other than last year when Orgeron stripped BDP of his linebacker responsibilities?

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I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how the current special teams coaching situation is worse than the last few years, where our linebackers coach coached linebackers PLUS all six special teams units. Splitting up the units allows each coach to give each unit more attention.

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In effect, it is not. To use one unit/stat as an example... we've improved in punt coverage. From 127th in 2016 to 112th. Ugly is ugly.

I don't know what the answer is. What we're doing now, and last year, isn't working. Having a separate coach responsible for each unit seems unmanageable to me because it's the same players. But I may be thinking about this wrong.

I agree with most things you said. As far as Aranda, the defense is depleted. We are very young and we have injuries on the line and Frank Herron still out. The depth is not where it needs to be there. We have young db’s playing who will make mistakes. Ed Paris was out last game. Battle went out with an injury. Donnie Alexander was out until the second half along with a lineman. Ed Alexander was out with injury. Lawrence was playing injured. Key is out if shape. No one is a miracle worker. To assume that this all of a sudden makes Aranda bad at what he is doing is a bit of a stretch. At the end of the day players have to be disciplined and be in the right position to make plays. The players blamed themselves in the MSU game and said they did not stay disciplined.

Derek,

If you are reading this please tell O to fire grimes asap and please bring in a real life special teams coach next year.

Moffitt & Grimm's were great when LSU wins but lousy when they lose, typical the sky is falling LSU fan, just what Saban hates about college football, dumbass fans.