BATON ROUGE, La. – Dave Aranda and Matt Canada have crossed paths on the playing field before. They’ve also intersected on the real-estate market.
When he accepted a job as Wisconsin’s defensive coordinator in 2013, Aranda actually bought outgoing Badgers offensive coordinator Canada’s house after Canada left to work at North Carolina State.
“We just sold it,” said Aranda, who is completing his first season defensive coordinator at LSU. “It took us a while to sell it, but it’s a great little neighborhood. So when we’re coming in, I remember around all this time, similar to what’s happening with Matt right now, around this time when I got the job at Wisconsin, I’m getting all these texts from [N.