re: Something easily overlooked that's important: Joe Alleva knows football.

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Also it's encouraging he made Duke's best football hire since Spurrier in the 80's

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seriously? you do realize that he hired 2 duds before cut, right?

carl franks and ted roof appreciate the opportunity that alleva gave them i'm sure

1 out of 3 ain't bad I guess??

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Why not? If you had the opportunity to get more money at your job you wouldn't jump at it?

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Oh, so you think Les Miles shouldn't have scoffed at an offer from his friend Jeff Long from THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS?

Okay, if USC or Texas came calling, sure. The fact you find nothing wrong with Les Miles entertaining an offer from an inferior division rival is insanity.

Okay, so Duke has had 3 respectable coaches in its 100+ years of football,a nd you're butthurt he didn't hit a grand slam on his first try?


let's take a look at how Duke had its best 10-year run in school history under him:

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Duke athletics has flourished under Alleva’s direction. The Blue Devils finished fifth in the 2005 Division I Directors’ Cup, which rates athletics departments based on the success of its teams. Duke followed up its impressive 2005 performance with an eighth-place finish in 2006 and an 11th-place showing in 2007. Prior to 1998-99, Alleva’s first full year as director of athletics, Duke had never placed higher than 21st in the Directors’ Cup standings. Since then, Duke has enjoyed six top 20 finishes, including four in succession (2004-07).

In the 2006 National Collegiate Scouting Association Power Rankings that combine a school’s Directors’ Cup finish, its athletic graduation rates and its academic ranking in U.S. News and World Report, Duke was the top-ranked Division I school in the nation, ahead of Stanford, Notre Dame, Princeton and Harvard. Duke also finished first in this listing in 2005 and second in 2004.

Here is a look at some of the key athletic accomplishments by Duke under Alleva’s guidance:

Six NCAA National Championships (Duke has nine overall)
19 Final Four participants
44 ACC Championship teams
Eight Top 25 Directors’ Cup finishes (three top 10 finishes)
71 Academic All-America selections
147 All-Americas (250 honors)
251 All-ACC selections (400 honors)
12 National Player of the Year selections (17 honors)
6 National Rookie of the Year selections
16 National Coach of the Year selections
32 ACC Rookie of the Year selections
34 ACC Coach of the Year awards
24 ACC Player of the Year selections (33 honors)

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On top of solid hires he's made here, he seems more than capable of finding good coaches.

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Okay, so Duke has had 3 respectable coaches in its 100+ years of football,a nd you're butthurt he didn't hit a grand slam on his first try?

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i'm just saying let's not gloss over the fact that he has made less than stellar football coaching selections.

and your list of accomplishments is mostly about basketball. I thought this post was regarding his football knowledge.

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So if your company's competitor came to you and said we will offer you your salary+x you would just scoff at them and say no can do. This is still a business and the man has to make money.

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Arkansas has money, decent tradition, and amazing facilities, but they are not in the same league of potential as LSU.

Had Florida State, USC, Texas, etc offered then sure pony up. Arkansas is a completely different story and should have never been entertained with how we've always lined his pockets. At least when Texas offered Saban it was substantially more money from an equal program.

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MBA from Lehigh

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Les has a Masters degree in Finance from The University of Michigan. So what?

The deal with the AD and the BOS is too many people have information on what's going on so its just inevitably that things are going to get leaked and the rumors will run rampant and no one will spin it to make their particular group or person look bad. IMO Not to mention the media...

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The fact he went 1/3 at a school like Duke shows me he can get the job done replacing Les.

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I'm hoping you're right...I really really am! I just don't see how the facts support that argument.

But hey, we'll see....

This is fact. He lost his grace period with that one . Bad business move and this is a business

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That still doesn't answer the question. What did miles do wrong in that situation that no hard working person would do?

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I didn't say he did anything "wrong", but LSU sure as hell didn't owe him a re-negotiated contract after a weak showing against Clemson. If were even coming off the 2011 season I could justify it, but I think it's okay to think Les miles shouldn't have ever entertained this "offer"-especially when he was visibly butt hurt when John Chavis walked out on him