re: Alleva Says Les is Staying

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Whether or not Les is staying, Alleva should not. He should be fired.

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This. When all this shite was being stirred, I wrongly thought that no intelligent man in Alleva's position would have prompted Scott Rabalais to fire the first shot to sink the Miles ship unless he had a sure thing, ink dry on the contract, winning coach. I didn't care that Les was 'left out in the wind to dry' with the administration's silence. Alleva's blitzkrieg was engineered for the good of LSU's football future.
But what happened? Apparently Alleva didn't have a 'sure thing.' With no backup plan, he decided to 'love the one your with.' All the negative attention he brought to the university, which I didn't care about when I thought we were getting a new coach, I do care about now.
Alleva looks like the biggest fool that ever was. I guess we should have expected this from a man who quickly and wrongly judged a group of innocent white men in a perceived racial incident back at Duke.

There should be consequences for Alleva's frick up. FIRE JOE ALLEVA!!!

I don't like Alleva at all, but he did say that such a decision wouldn't be made until after the season. Maybe he should have reiterated that, but he shouldn't have had to.

I wanted a new coach as much as the next guy, but if it was between Jimbo and Les, I'd rather Miles.

Also, I guarantee the stadium is packed for the first home game next year. No matter what, each new football season brings optimism and only 12 games. Everyone will be back on the bandwagon come 2016.

And for those saying they want Miles to move to AD...seriously? Have you seen the performance of the coaches he hires?

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if it was between Jimbo and Les, I'd rather Miles

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There are better coaches than Les, but I'm also unconvinced Jimbo is one of them.

If we can get one and things aren't better next year, I hope we do so.

I didn't see the press conference or hear what Alleva said. Did sound anything like the dreaded "Vote of confidence" a lot of coaches in trouble receive, only to find themselves unemployed a week or two later?

LSU athletic director Joe Alleva spoke to the media before coach Les Miles after LSU's 19-7 victory against Texas A&M.

Here is a transcript of Alleva's statement about Les Miles' future:

"Obviously there's been quite a bit of speculation the past few days about the future of our football coach and football program. I made it very clear that my policy is to wait until the end of the season, and obviously it's the end of the regular season right now.

"The season is complete and I want to make it very clear and positive that Les Miles is our football coach and will continue to be our football coach. Okay? I'm looking forward to working with Coach Miles as he leads this team to a bowl game and another great recruiting class.

"Les and I have talked, we've talked about this program, and we are committed together to working to win and compete at the highest level. And I really, frankly, don't have much more to say than that. I'm very pleased about tonight's outcome and I'm very pleased that Coach Miles is our coach. We're going to go forward together and win championships here at LSU."

Anyone who wanted Miles fired needs to look at what happened to UT after they fired Fulmer. Their program is just now starting to recover 7 years later. You better have a damn good HC ready before you fire a guy averaging almost 10 wins a year.

I am not a Miles fan, but this was not the time to let him go:
a) too many coaching positions available, thus
HIGH cost / Low Selection
b) high buyout
c) the team still supports him
d) a high recruiting class at stake.

2016 will be a tell-tale and no room for error.
AND some things MUST change or we will have similar results.

I live in the land of Gumps. 99% of the people around me or either UA or AU fans with a little sprinkling of other SEC schools. Every Monday for the past 5 years I've had to stick up for LSU as they fell apart during the meat of the SEC schedule. Young team, just missing a quarterback, loss too many people, blah, blah, blah. I even sat in a sea Auburn and Alabama fans and went to the away games here.

IMO, there are no more excuses, and I can't offer any. I don't blame Les, he does what he does. College football circa 1982. The entire game has passed him by. I do blame the program for deciding that was good enough.

I think next year I'm just going to hang around with a couple of my Vandy alum friends and talk SEC baseball.

It's a damn shame!

So many apparent lies in Alleva's press conference, I don't know where to begin. Bottom line is that he has become a bigger liability to LSU football than Les Miles. Alleva should step down.

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Obviously there's been quite a bit of speculation the past few days about the future of our football coach and football program.

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And you, Mr Alleva did NOTHING for two weeks to try to curtail the speculation. You only fueled it by your cryptic "no comment". You throw your people under the bus to cover your arse. You are NO leader.