I started watching and said to self "this is thirty five minutes I cannot get back". Then I listened and I walked away with these thoughts.
The Good!
1) BN is never going to walk back his primary obsession on "character". We will stay at the top of the SEC in GPA and solid citizens who stay in our football program. I do not believe this will result in championships but do believe it has always been the intent of the student/athlete historically. How well it will play in the "rent a playa" system is not clear to me.
2) BN for all his dufus looks and silly word salad linguistics is really super smart in his understanding of the ulterior motives of the coaching profession. Those of us who have been there and done that know the most satisfaction you can achieve, absent winning it all, is to develop young men into those guys you want to date and marry your daughters. Knowing you are putting the skills in place to make them successful in life as provider, husband, father, son makes you want to coach the next season. I know this is true and all those who have invested years/ decade into this role know it too.
3) He seems to be understanding that the portal is the key to his success confirmed with his "each team is different" comment along with the analyst staff are always evaluating those who we missed that may return "being number two isn't terrible" and we have evaluated every position even when we think we are deep in order to fill gaps.
4) Armstrong has been demoted regardless of what the title says. The new "mentor, head defensive coach" is currently in charge of the D.
5) Hopefully, the special teams analyst (coach) from Patriots will get everything solved in practice because games still do not have anyone in charge.
The Bad
1) I do not know whether his insistence of only choosing from coaches he has worked with previously is comfort or he just cannot get anyone else to jump onto a sinking ship?
2) This leopard isn't going to significantly change his spots. He believes he is correct and will take the torpedo to prove it!
3) He is going to succeed or fail with high character, developmental project players. He is not going mercenary........ Aaron Hernandez would not get invited to a BN team.
4) He clearly knows he is not on the hot seat and is going to continue to plug along at his methodical pace