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re: Why do you guys want Joe Brady?
Posted on 12/8/20 at 9:47 pm to SammyTiger
Posted on 12/8/20 at 9:47 pm to SammyTiger
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Absolutely insane to bash Aranda Brady and Wade to defend O.
This thread is about Joe Brady and why the rant wants him. I didn’t even mention O
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Posted on 12/8/20 at 10:13 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Time for LSU to stop getting up and coming guys
other than Brady, who was basically a complete unknown to most when he was hired, who are these up and coming guys we've been hiring that we need to stop hiring? The last guy before Brady like that we hired was Aranda (sort of as he was already pretty established as a great DC at Wisonsin), and both of those hires went about as well as we could have hoped for.
The only psuedo-splash hire we made , as in we hired a big name at the time, was Canada and that blew up in spectacular fashion (I'm not going to get into why because that's not really the point here). Other than that, we've promoted an old TE coach to OC, hired a washed up DC, hired a former player with no experience to coach RBs, hired a washed out former NFL coach to coach QBs, and kept a bunch of other guys on staff. Obviously that doesn't cover the entire staff, but just to name a few.
Splash hires as assistants aren't easy to come by because most of them are either 1) guys like Venables who are career assistants at one school and aren't leaving that school; or 2) guys who's next move will be taking a HC job somewhere and not to make a lateral move. The pool of "splash hire" assistants looking for another job as an assistant is not very big.
We were very lucky to be able to be in the position to get a guy like Aranda. Hiring a good staff isn't a matter of simply choosing between a splash hire or finding a young up and coming coach. It takes a much better approach to coaching searches than we've shown to undertake. Our coaching searches have been largely extremely lazy with very few exceptions, or we have struck gold by dumb luck like we did with Brady. We also don't seem to have a defined identity and then go out to try to find the best coaches that fit what we want to do. We seem to largely just go out and hire guys who people have heard of, then have them try to continuously change what we do even if we don't have the right personnel to do it. Or we go out and hire guys that no one else wants because they were buddies with the coach or someone he trusts (this applies to Les and Orgeron)
Saban has obviously had some great fortune with his assistants at Alabama and that comes with being the GOAT, but look at the guys he assembled here. Went and got a 35 year old Jimbo Fisher after he had been an OC for one year at Cincinnati. Hired a 30 year old Will Muschamp to coach LBs (and later our DC) from Valdosta St. Hired a 29 year old Kirby Smart to coach DBs who had been a GA at FSU. Hired a 32 year old Derek Dooley to coach TEs from SMU. Obviously Dooley washed out eventually, but to think how many future P5 and SEC HCs he assembled on the same staff when all those guys were in their late 20s to mid 30s is knowing how to identify talent. You don't need to make splash hires and pay them millions of dollars to assemble an elite coaching staff. You just need to have guys who know what they're doing, and we, quite frankly, don't
This post was edited on 12/8/20 at 10:16 pm
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