Les Miles hires Wisconsin DC Dave Aranda to be LSU's new DC
Per Bruce Feldman on Twitter, Wisconsin DC Dave Aranda is joining Les Miles' staff at LSU as the Tigers' defensive coordinator.
https://twitter.com/BruceFeldmanCFB/status/683126008602570752
January 1st, 2016 at 10:32 PM ^
January 1st, 2016 at 11:03 PM ^
Wisconsin had a great Defense this year and held a very talented USC offense to 21 points in the Holiday Bowl. Great hire by Coach Miles. We play Wisky next four years so this probably helps us as well.
January 1st, 2016 at 11:26 PM ^
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January 2nd, 2016 at 9:33 AM ^
It's kinda funny reading Wisky boards try to excuse their AD's reluctance to pay coaches on academic standards.
Some dude even went as far as to claim that Wisconsin is more academically rigorous and prestigious as a school than Michigan.
LOL
January 2nd, 2016 at 11:30 AM ^
January 1st, 2016 at 10:33 PM ^
les is on thin ice with those folks, and it seems like a lateral hire regardless.
January 1st, 2016 at 10:36 PM ^
January 1st, 2016 at 10:37 PM ^
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January 2nd, 2016 at 11:19 AM ^
is arguably better. Both are good, but I'll take shrimp over cheese....
January 1st, 2016 at 10:38 PM ^
January 1st, 2016 at 11:27 PM ^
Just wanted to say I always get a kick out of seeing you show up in AV Club comments.
That is all.
January 1st, 2016 at 11:42 PM ^
Hope he's renting then.. I bet he gets to move a year from now.
January 2nd, 2016 at 12:21 AM ^
When Bert left for Arkansas he was tired of losing assistants because Wisconsin wouldn't pay them more.
January 2nd, 2016 at 8:56 AM ^
I don't understand the figure head at coach anymore...some of the best coached teams have coaches who can contribute to certain aspects of the team...the argument that Miles is a good coach is weak to me because all he does is pay talented coaches alot of money. Can't any big, dedicated program do that. A guy like herman would just kill at LSU with that payroll
January 2nd, 2016 at 11:00 AM ^
January 2nd, 2016 at 11:57 AM ^
about Miles adding inches to his ice. Defense has never really been LSU's problem under Miles. The offense, and particularly issues at QB, are usually what has hampered LSU during the Miles tenure.
January 1st, 2016 at 10:40 PM ^
January 1st, 2016 at 10:55 PM ^
Final four?
Mich
LSU
Stanford
Arizona
January 1st, 2016 at 11:07 PM ^
January 2nd, 2016 at 12:22 AM ^
January 1st, 2016 at 11:18 PM ^
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January 1st, 2016 at 11:27 PM ^
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January 2nd, 2016 at 12:24 AM ^
every year under RR. They lose Scooby Wright next year and there is no reason to believe that their defense will be any better.
January 1st, 2016 at 10:41 PM ^
Is he going to hire someone to devlop a good quarterback too? Seems like they always have oustanding teams with inconsistant qb play.
January 2nd, 2016 at 10:24 AM ^
January 1st, 2016 at 10:41 PM ^
Somewhat similar to the Bielema and Anderson scenarios. Obviously lots of respect for Alvarez but he needs to find ways to keep this from happening.
January 1st, 2016 at 10:42 PM ^
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January 1st, 2016 at 11:42 PM ^
No clue. I wanna say no? Probably has too big of an ego to step away.
January 1st, 2016 at 11:53 PM ^
January 1st, 2016 at 10:41 PM ^
January 1st, 2016 at 10:52 PM ^
He wasn't hired by Chryst...he was entertaining multiple offers. He was gone regardless.
January 1st, 2016 at 10:42 PM ^
When will Bo Pelini be released from purgatory at Youngstown and get a real job???
January 1st, 2016 at 11:03 PM ^
Pelini DC at Wisconsin sounds right to me.
January 1st, 2016 at 11:13 PM ^
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January 2nd, 2016 at 3:32 AM ^
January 1st, 2016 at 10:42 PM ^
So if Chryst racks up another 10 win season or two, does he bolt like Bielema and Anderson?
January 1st, 2016 at 10:51 PM ^
No...he'll retire a Badger if he can.
January 1st, 2016 at 10:44 PM ^
he may be a dunderhead (the playcalling before the half in their bowl was a special kind of stupid), but (assisted by LSU's $$$), he sure knows how to replace DCs.
January 1st, 2016 at 10:49 PM ^
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January 1st, 2016 at 10:52 PM ^
January 1st, 2016 at 10:54 PM ^
He wasn't hired by Chryst...it was rumored that he was looking to go to a number of schools. Michigan never contacted him, but I'm sure we were aware of his as an option.
He was leaving.
January 1st, 2016 at 11:35 PM ^
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January 1st, 2016 at 10:52 PM ^
January 1st, 2016 at 10:57 PM ^
with assistant coaches being better paid than all the professors.
If you look at the schools with the biggest budgets for assistant coaches..all not exactly known as hotbeds of world-class science and scholarship.
January 2nd, 2016 at 12:26 AM ^
You pay market value. The market values football assistant coaches more than your philosophy professor.
Sorry?
January 2nd, 2016 at 1:17 AM ^
not pro sports franchises. They aren't in the "marketplace", this is a non-profit public sector institution.
If Wisconsin is OK with winning 9 games a year paying assistants less than Alabama and LSU then that might piss off some drunk fat guy in a bar wearing a Wisconsin hat but it's a non-issue for the university itself.
January 2nd, 2016 at 1:38 AM ^
Except that they aren't really in the public sector, as most (if not all) Big Ten athletic departments are fiscally autonomous from the institutions they represent. Our athletic department doesn't receive a penny from the school's general fund; in fact, it actually makes an annual contribution to it.
In general, it behooves an athletic department to invest in its major sports programs as this builds enthusiasm and leads to increased revenue in the form of ticket and merchandise sales and donations. That means paying market-level salaries for top coaching talent, as there is only so much of it out there.
January 2nd, 2016 at 2:46 AM ^
the Athletic Department is a university department answering to the President of the university who is answering to the Board of Regents who are appointed by the governor in Wisconsin. Their fiscal arrangement is irrelevant in that regard. They exist to essentially provide a public service.
In general, a lot of athletic departments are running deficits and I think Michigan's might recently have become one of them thanks to our previous Athletic Director's over-the-top love of 'investment'. Fortunately that is likely going to be corrected but it shows that even for the most popular programs there's a limit.
Whether a focus on big-time athletics is a true benefit to a university is up for debate and difficult to prove one way or the other. The University of Chicago seems to be doing OK without it, same with MIT, NYU, Tufts, Claremont McKenna or Washington University in St.Louis. Those places might not be as famous with your average knucklehead - which is something football can definitely buy you - but they are top destinations among people with other priorities (i.e. most people with a brain).
Of course, in places where such high-end sports already exist they're generally popular among students and locals because they're exciting and it's fun for a whole community to identify with a team. And that's definitely a plus, but there's also nothing which suggest that you have to go along with every aspect of the one-upmanship so typical among high-end Division I athletics. If Bama wants to pay their S&C coach 600k then they're free to do so but that doesn't mean that's now the 'market price' and now Wisconsin or Michigan even need to spend 650k on their next S&C coach.
January 2nd, 2016 at 1:38 AM ^
Do you know how much USC, Notre Dame, and Stanford pay their assistant coaches? I don't...
January 1st, 2016 at 10:56 PM ^
Kevin Steele to Auburn to replace Muschamp who leaves for S. Carolina. Aranda to LSU.
LSU needs to fire Cam Cameron ASAP and hire Major Applewhite at Houston or Sonnie Combie at TCU.