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Joe Alleva, an outsider, has wildly succeeded in letting the good ole boy network back in the door to run things, after Emmert and Saban showed them the door.

Alleva is a Whiskey Delta and there are too many "voices" in the Athletic Dept. No ones driving the train.

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Posted by Ace Midnight

Between sanity and madness

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Posted on 11/27/16 at 5:08 pm to timlan2057

Well, to be fair, Orgeron didn't have quite the playing record at LSU that Jerry Stovall had.

And Stovall was pressed into service after the death of Bo Rein. So, that situation was dicey all the way around.

And the gunk that forms in the corner of Jerry Stovall's eyes while he is sleeping is a better football coach than Curley Hallman - just sayin'.

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Posted by timlan2057

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Posted on 11/27/16 at 5:08 pm to Overbrook

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1)John McKeithen was in an era when the governor was actively involved in LSU, including actively recruiting for LSU football. But he was the last of that era.

Good post.

I know you know, but just for some of the younger folks, John McKeithen was not governor in 1982, though he served on the BOS. In fact, in an era of corruption, you'd think Edwin Edwards would have been right in the middle of things.

Not according to Brodhead. He spoke highly of EWE when he mentioned him.

Before the Board meeting, Wharton and Board member Sheldon Beychok met with Governor-elect Edwin Edwards to apprise him of my pending recommendation. Not knowing how adverse public reaction might be, they wanted Edwards kept up to date and, hopefully, in the right corner: Edwards, however; wanted firsthand information and he summoned me to a meeting in his office.

Edwards' icy blue eyes scared me almost as much as his proclamation, minutes after Wharton, Beychok and I arrived, that Stovall and I should both be fired and a combination Coach/Athletic Director be brought in.

Wondering if I'd just been axed, I offered my arguments against such a move, telling Edwards that, in my opinion, intercollegiate sports had become big business and, as such, should be run by businessmen, not football coaches. He must have seen the logic in my remarks, because at the close of the meeting, he told me to do what I thought was best, and he promised not to interfere. It was a promise he would keep throughout my tenure at LSU.

Sacked, pp 58-59.

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Posted by LSUFAN2

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Posted on 11/27/16 at 5:58 pm to Icansee4miles

There is no freaking way that archer was the worse hire of all time. Evidently you have forgotten the Curly Hallman era.