re: Why doesn't Aranda ever get any blame?

He deserves a ton of blame

I agree the defense did not play great. Gave up big play after big play.

The blame game. Oh well. So blame him. What does that get you? He's the smartest coach on the staff. LSU thought enough of his importance to give him a hefty raise and make him (I think)the highest paid assistant coach in the country.

Orgeron is the head coach. He isn't as smart as Aranda, at least not as to how to run a defense. If you want to run off Aranda, fine. What are you left with?

Orgeron is the head coach, which means ultimately, he is responsible for everything in the football program. Don't like a coordinator or assistant? Who hired/retained them? Don't like the offensive linemen? Who recruited them?

The book on Ed Orgeron has not yet been written. He may go down as a relatively mediocre, average head coach and win 9 games, maybe 10 every other year or so, or, maybe tank and win 6 or 7 games. Or he may recruit lights-out, and lead the team to an SEC championship berth. I'd say, he has another 2 years to show some serious progress. I question whether he should have been hired as interim HC, and HC, in the first place, but, it is what it is and for those of you who live in the real, not fantasy world, he isn't going to be fired after a 9, potentially 10 win season. Hope springs eternal and we'll see what next year holds when it gets here.

But to answer your question, what would be the purpose of assessing blame on Coach Aranda at this point in time?

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Elite is a relative term. Over the last 15 years Aranda's defense ranks 14th (2018), 8th and 9th. Only Steele in 2015 was lower than Aranda this season by 1 yard per game. 

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You cant use totals to rank a defense against other defenses that had offenses with better TOP. If you looked at Chavis' total defenses they all looked elite but when you looked at yards per play, his defenses werent as highly ranked.his defenses just faced less plays do to our ball controlled offense.

I like to use yards per play. I havent checked to see if that would affect aranda's defense ranking this year but we have also never had such a poor offense. At least under miles we could run the ball well if our passing game sucked. At times this year we could do neither

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Uh, 31. And, he’s the highest paid defensive coordinator in the country making 25% more than Clemson’s coordinator. Imagine if O was the highest paid head coach by 25% more than the next coach and we were not in the top 25.

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Its been proven that these types of seasons are the outlier for Aranda.

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So wheres the reasoning for giving him a total pass on his D being 0-fer on plays that wouldve won us the game? 

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What? Down 5 starters he held a&m to fgs on 2 of the 1st 4 ots.

And at no point did i say he gets a total pass. Im just pointing out that his defense held A&M to season lows in regulation and had to score to tie the game with 9 minutes left in the game.

“ to be retarded”

It’s almost like people don’t understand that the object of overtime in college football, the way the rules are set, is to put the defense in a pretty bad position so that scores can come quickly in hopes to end the game as soon as possible.

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This is why I hope Aranda leaves this year. Lsu doesn’t deserve him

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This mentality is the problem. The blind hero worship and ignoring facts like having the 31st ranked defense and allowing huge plays at the worst time.

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The blind hero worship and ignoring facts like having the 31st ranked defense and allowing huge plays at the worst time.

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Or the goal line stand, the turnover to tie the game, the hold to give the offense the ball with less than 3 minutes, holding them to a FG in OT..... but yea totally 4th and 18

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31st in total defense. According to the numbers, O has met or exceeded his salary and Aranda has not.

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Nope. 9 wins is not “meeting expectations”. Maybe it is to you. But then it’s obvious you have low expectations. Most losers do.

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8 times this genius DC aranda had an opportunity to make a stop to win the game. 

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bullshite. He held a&m to fgs 2 of the 1st 4 ots.

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This is on the DC. Ensmingers offense gave him a 31-24 lead and once again the Chavis looking defense failed. End of story.

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The defense had to score to tie the game in the 4th.
The defense made a 4th down stop with 2:30 left in the game and all the offense had to do was make 1st down.


So in a span of 8 minutes the defense scored to tie the game and made a 4th down stop that shouldve allowed the offense to ice the game and your problem is with the defense?.
Wow