re: Scott Rabalais on Sports Today “I’m not sure a Mike Leach / Dave Aranda combo would work

Ensminger's play calling the last 2 games is alarming. I thought it was fine up until then. He can be upgraded obviously. Mike Leach is not the answer lol

Veer and shoot would absolutely work in the SEC and our defense would benefit from the offense actually putting points on the board

Dumbest argument ever made against Spread Offenses.

Team A - Offense goes down the field eating up yards.

Team B - an offense that goes 3 and out every possession.

Which teams defense gets tired first.

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Look at Aranda’s background:

Texas Tech
Houston
Hawaii

Read about his Hawaii rush defenses.

To think his defense wouldn’t benefit from a high powered offense is laughable.

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You know, the more I read stuff like this the more I think Aranda is playing the long game.

Im starting to wonder if hes not biding his time waiting for the Captain Orgeron experiment to collapse so he can take the reins. If the rumors are true that he was offered after Less Smiles and he turned it down because he didnt think he was ready, then I think that tells us hes in waiting. There were also rumors that HCIW was part of his deal to stay on board as DC during his last contract negotiation.

Either way, no way in hell a guy who worked with Mike Leach, Art Briles, Ruffin McNeil, Dana Holgornsen, Kliff Kingsbury and Sonny Dyke is going to hire a guy like Ensminger to run his offense. If theres any DC in the country that knows what a potent offense looks like its Dave Aranda.

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because he’s an abysmal recruiter

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He takes doormats like Texas Tech and WSU and makes them into Top 15 teams despite being in places like Lubbock being 5 hours from DFW and Pullman being almost the same from Seattle in the middle of nowhere......the fact he gets 3 stars out there is pretty frickin telling.

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so you want to hire him based on his offense, only to have to change his offense?

is Hal Mumme busy bigJ? why not him?


if you want a coach you need to focus on something that would actually work here

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cool so we're going to stick with being intentionally obtuse.

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Was anyone actually clamoring for Leach to come here? Why would he leave the PAC12 to become O's OC? (This is not a rub on you, I'm just wondering why Rabalais even brought it up in the first place.)

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Have you not read this very board over the last four or five years? There have been quite the number of posts over that time championing Mike Leach to coach the Tigers.

Heck, there was likely even some in 2004 when Darth Saban left.

And in response to other posts in the thread, please tell me how a coach who plans defenses for a living can NOT know a good offensive coordinator when he sees one? Tell me how he does not understand offenses when he has to scheme/script plays and what have you for a living.

What do you honk Kliff Kingbury was running at A&M when johnny won a heisman and beat bama?

Look at the 2 leagues Leach has done well in.Neither has one team with an SEC-like defense in it. As well,as much as CLM and Coach O have been mocked for their odd personas by the ranters here, have you ever caught Leach's whole pirate thing? He's in the running for COY out there, so he's going to drop & run to be LSU's OC?