Ed Orgeron was hired to be the next Dabo Swinney
If anyone of you "just CANT bElIeVe" that they hired Orgeron, there's your answer. You heard it at the press conference, he said, "to beat Alabama you have to recruit like Alabama" which is true and false I guess. Very few schools can recruit at that level, but even still, you have to have players, and Eddie O is a good recruiter, and he will hold up that end of the bargain IN GENERAL.
However, the problem is his coaching. Dabo is a rah rah guy just like O, and rose up through the coaching ranks similarly, with no real coordinator experience before being crowned a head coaching prospect. And it also took him a long time to start winning, as he almost got fired that season before 'WV just scored again'. LSU freaked out about Saban, and saw Clemson nearly beat him twice, so they wanted to use that blueprint. They also saw Ole Miss cheat their way into 2 victories.
We won't know for 3-4 seasons if it pays off, but as long as Alleva is there, so will Orgeron (at least for the foreseeable future). The only problem is that O comes and says nimrod statements like, "in today's game you have to have a mobile quarterback". Actually, O, NO, you don't, especially at a school like LSU. Then, after he says that, he proceeds to let Keyteon Thompson go to MSU.
Bottom line, O will fail because he either has no plan to execute, or has a bad one. On paper, he's Dabo, but it won't work out that way for him long term. Dabo wouldn't have lost to Troy.
At this point they may as well get behind him and at least let him recruit for 2 years and decrease that buyout.
