On 247Sports podcast “The Late Kick” with Josh Pate, he has some advice for any athletic director looking to make a hire as the next head football coach. His guy is Baylor’s Dave Aranda. As Pate says “he is going to win championships somewhere. It will either be for you or at the expense of you.”
As we have said time and time again, Aranda would be a welcomed sight on the sidelines in Baton Rouge. Pate specifically mentioned both USC and LSU. Aranda has ties to both Southern California and the down on the Bayou. He hasn’t coached for USC but he knows the area seeing as how he played college ball there. Of course, he knows the Bayou having been an assistant for the Tigers from 2016-2019 as the associate head coach, defensive coordinator, and linebackers coach.
There are those who talk about it, and there are those who be about it. Pate says that Aranda walks the walk.
Hire Dave Aranda & thank me later! pic.twitter.com/I8q3yaGpny
— Josh Pate (@LateKickJosh) November 17, 2021
You can look at his head coaching record and say well he isn’t established as a head coach. A valid argument, but sometimes you have to roll the dice on a head coaching hire. Remember, fortune favors the bold.
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