re: Golding needs to go.

I think the Bo Pelini / LSU marriage is great. Bo runs (or did run - hope he still does) a 4-3 two gap system. Adjusting from the current LSU system to the new system will take some time. Much like Alabama, the players (Mike above all others) have to think and adjust constantly.

Set the defense, the O shifts the look then puts someone in motion. While the D is making multiple adjustments the O snaps the ball and not everyone is set to run the new call. Or some of the DL run one call while the LB's run a different call. Sound familiar to what we saw from our defense this past year?

Pelini also likes to run a single high safety to get one additional safety closer to the LoS for run support. Waddle on an RPO play side slant and Smitty on a backside SLUGO after a shift will eat the Pelini system up.

It will take the LSU DL long enough to get the system down that it may cost them a couple of games on the front half of the schedule. The way that Sark uses shifts and motions will give the LSU DB's/LB's hell adjusting on the fly.

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Maybe Saban knew the two personalities wouldn't be able to work together.

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In all seriousness, I don’t think bringing Pelini on is the best idea. He just got hired by LSU and I remembered posting this when the wounds were still fresh from the LSU game. In retrospect, I think we actually did okay against them given the circumstances and compared to what they did against almost everyone else.