re: Let's talk Dave Aranda for a minute.

Arranda looks great right now.
I would withhold judgement on him until we play some teams with good offenses like Ole Miss, Bama and aTm.

He seems pretty cerebral and quiet. He has no head coaching experience. We don't know if he can recruit or if he can be a CEO of a program. For every Herman, there is a Kirby Smart or Will Muschamp. Herman went to Houston not an SEC program. He has proved it at Houston. Fuentes went from TCU OC to Memphis not directly to VaTech.

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A lot of fans still support Miles because he backed into a championship in 2007.

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Stop with this crap. If Miles backed into it in 2007, then he was backed out of it in 2011. But he didn't. The best team doesn't always win the championship, but two years in which it did were 2007 and 2011. There was no doubt which team was the best after the bowl season was over.

See Kirby smart.

Next question.

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Was Kirby Smart perceived as so successful because he was benefitting from Nick Saban?

Aranda is his own man; he is not in the shadow of a an icon for his one craft. Aranda creates and adjusts on his own. He demonstrates having a cerebral aptitude for the X and O's where we will never be able to appreciate whether or not Smart possessed the same at Alabama. Had Saban retired and five years later Smart was continuing to make the defense even better, then we could presume Smart possessed the X and O's skillset. So dumping Smart into the same discussion with Aranda is truly missing the point here.

From where does Aranda glean brilliance on the offensive side to be a successful CEO of a football team and scrutinize his staff are bringing their highest level of excellence to the table? What about his skills in the "recruiting living room"? We hear he is a professor type quiet talking man. How do those skills translate into leadership to motivate masses? These are unknown commodities still to be fleshed-out [or revealed to the public - more likely] on Aranda.

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Coaches in the vein of Belicheck, Saban, Spurrier, and Carroll have learned a great deal through failure at some point. Saban at Alabama is light years beyond Saban at LSU. Some of the best coaching Spurrier has ever done was making South Carolina semi-relevant for a few years.

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the failures of each of the coaches you mentioned were in the NFL. Completely different than college ball.

Saban, Spurrier, and Carroll each excelled at the college level nearly every single year (with the exception of Spurrier's last year at So. Carolina), so they don't have any college "failure" to learn from.

And Saban's first HC job was at Toledo.
Spurrier's first HC job was at Duke.
Carroll's the exception - his first college HC job was USC, but he had been an NFL head coach for 4 years prior to that.
Belichick never coached in college.

You see where this is going. Start as smaller schools and prove you're a good HC. Then move up to bigger schools.