Aranda set to hire Louisiana DC Ron Roberts to same position at Baylor

Baylor head coach Dave Aranda is in the process of finalizing a deal with Louisiana defensive coordinator Ron Roberts (52) to the same position, SicEm365 has learned. The news of the hiring was first reported by Adam Rittenberg of ESPN. 

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Baylor has not confirmed the hiring of Roberts at the time of this report.

Roberts has spent the last two seasons as the defensive coordinators for the Ragin’ Cajuns and was named a Frank Broyles Award nominee in November. The stint at Louisiana comes after 11 seasons as the head coach at Delta State and and Southeastern Louisiana. 

Aranda was the co-defensive coordinator at Delta State under Roberts in 2007 and is widely known as Aranda’s coaching mentor.

As a head coach Roberts compiled a 89-45 overall record including five seasons of 10 wins or more and six conference championships. In conference play Roberts’ teams notched an impressive 64-21 overall record including perfect league records on three different occasions. 

As the DC at Louisiana in 2019, Roberts’ defense finished No. 18 nationally in scoring defense (19.7), up from No. 105 nationally in 2018 (34.2). Total defense improved from No. 97 nationally (435.9) to No. 47 nationally (371.8) and in yards per play from 6.32 to 5.45.