I'm afraid he would be a tear-it-down-and-start-over-the-way-I-think-it-should-be kind of guy. Which equals years of pain before we find out the finished product ain't good enough. One of the reason's I want Aranda is I think he is best able to know what good pieces we should keep.
This all started months ago, maybe even last year. Woodward won’t flub this up. That said, I’ve heard it argued anyone can do better than the idiots that preceded them. Not so fast. Orgeron was all-in pre-2019 and had a lot of stars align, but the brightest mind would struggle to duplicate 2019. For all the shit Miles gets, LSU was a machine thanks to Saban and Miles had some fire up to the NC. These guys couldn’t sustain, but they had shit humming at one point.
Maintaining success takes different skills than achieving success including a different mindset. Which is counterintuitive because we naturally think that repeating the process will repeat the success. But that would only be true in a static world which it is not. I don't know, but I would be willing to bet, that even when he wins another NC Mr "Nick I-am-Process" has a chapter in his process book dedicated to reviewing what they did last year and changes that need to be made this year to get better. That's why he got Kiffin, because he knew he had to change his offensive philosophy.
Thanks! That went right over my head. Or maybe I’m subconsciously blocking him out of mind because I dislike him so much.
And in case you weren't paying attention, Alabama's 2020 offense looked exactly like LSU's 2019 offense.
IMO “maintaining success” even last year compared to what will turn into full blown college free agency will change the job of a college HC. Sprinkle on a few ph&$ck ups with NIL deals and who knows what will happen.
