re: The Human Punching Bag - Mr. Joe Alleva

quote:

---

Oh, I know that some of you looooooathe Joe Alleva, for whatever reason you have in your head - maybe it's jealousy - I don't know.

Those of you that have bashed him for the $15MM buyout - why?

Those of you that have bashed him for the leaks - why?

Did it ever, for even the slightest second, cross your minds that he is not responsible for either of those situations, and that maybe he's trying to handle the situation the best way possible?

Now, lets go back to the two questions...

I've seen MANY on here say that Alleva is responsible for the large buyout. The fact is, that buyout was in place before he held the AD role, and was actually increased by the BoD to over $18 MM shortly before he took over.

See Page 8

As for the leaks, there have been numerous people saying that the leaks have come from the coaching staff, and I know of one, that at least has some semblance of legs, that confirms that.

All I'm saying, is that we're already going to lose Les, so let's not compound the issue by attempting to cut off the entire athletic department face to spite ourselves.

---

Part of your post is accurate, part of it is Not.

If Alleva pulls this off and lands the right coach, then I'll be the biggest Alleva fan on Earth, but I think he sucks as an AD. I hope to be proven wrong very soon.