re: Alex Grinch

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Can we add Kuligowski, too? Please?

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If that happened:

Grinch recruited Texas while at Wyoming and Georgia during his time at Missouri. Most of his recruiting ties appear to be in the south.

I know he took wazzu from 102 in 2014 to like 82, 64, and now a top 15 defense with way less talent. Would be a great hire.

You can add Greenlaw to that list

I think Grant Morgan could be legit

I think guide could be decent as well as montaric brown. I think our defenses biggest problem is that they're soft and slow but that can be fixed through conditioning sosa used to be exolosive. I do think we lack talent at linebacker and a little at safety though

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are we looking for young hungry and inexperienced or established and known commodities both flaws and strengths?

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Well, as it applies to the HC choice, the answer was kinda young, hungry, an inexperienced. The reasoning behind it hopefully being that the infusion of energy, work ethic, a sound foundation in a scheme proven to work, and connections to fertile, and desperately needed recruiting ground, brings the sucess we are after.

None of these things can be said of Chavis, except maybe marginal scheme success. Hopefully, nobody is fooling themselves into thinking they can expect any real improvement in his performance going forward, given his age, and the difference he will be dealing with in the caliber of recruits between LSU, aTm, and Arkansas.

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Chavis is almost a good fit if we accept he won't recruit.

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In what way? Experience is literally the only thing I can see that Chavis brings to the table.

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grinch seems like another pop up low info commodity. I haven't seen anyone post his weaknesses on here? what is he bad at? do we even know or will we be the ones to figure it ?

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Which will really be the case for anyone, correct? I have no doubt you could pose the weakness question about Venables on Oklahomo, and even Clempson message boards, with no shortage of replies.

The bet on someone like Grinch would be that he would work himself up to speed, work to find the bodies he needs to make his defense work, and learn the things he needs to know, through humility, desire, energy, work ethic, and the drive to continue to build his brand.

Again, none of those things can be said of Chavis, who is essentially banking on his laurels to get him a job that he's 'good enough' for.

Just my opinion.

Grinch would be a tremendous hire.

Our defense needs to be built around taking the ball away with Morris.

Chavis was once a great DC, but he's yet to prove he can be great with a high-scoring offense. Grinch has already proven that he can. How many other DC's have proven this ability? I can think of Venables and Steele.