By Matthew Soderberg | Sports Writer
I’m going to be honest: I was hoping Clemson’s defensive coordinator Brent Venables would walk through that door. Well, I picked the wrong DC from the title game, and I’m still not sure what to think.
Dave Aranda is coming off coordinating seven straight top-30 defenses in two of the best conferences in the country. His defenses have produced 13 draftees since his time at Wisconsin, and there will be even more drafted in April.
The defense at LSU this season was underrated. They played at an uber-high pace and scored enough that the defense wasn’t facing real offenses by the second half of most games.