re: Kim Mulkey for Athletic Director

I just feel like if Les Miles were that highly regarded as a head coach, more schools would be beating down his door with an offer. The fact purdue was even luke warm on the idea is telling. Les could give a school a solid 8 years, which is huge places like Purdue and Houston.


I'm more referencing the Laval hire than the Maineri hire. I actually like Maineri compared to the average rant poster. I think LSU can do better, but I know you can't just fire someone with his record.

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I was never sure why Henry left, but I didn't like it. I assumed it was a $$$-to-importance difference of opinion between himself and Skip.

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Henry wanted adequate facilities and likely a raise. Crazy to think LSU track hasn't had locker rooms for more than 5 years now. Oregon owns college track anyway these days, not henry. still it cost us 10+ more national titles to claim at least

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This is the problem with our fanbase

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Yeah, okay.

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You know that Bertman didn't hire Saban, right?

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I'll give you that.

She's got bigger balls than Alleva. Sign her up.

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And what exactly do we have to show for that? It's amazing to me that some of you "mental midgets" think that a fundraising charge outweighs the fact that he made relatively bad hires and ran several programs into the ground. I understand that AD entails more than hiring coaches, but hiring coaches is where 90% of an AD's value comes from.

Our entire athletic program is extremely mediocre right now in case you haven't noticed, smart guy. Twist it however you'd like and pump up his handling of its finances, but if he did a great job as AD in relevant duties, we wouldn't be sitting at 8-4 in football, missing the tournament in basketball with the best player in the country, and getting knocked out by small schools in the super regionals. I honestly don't care about getting a participation trophy because we have great finances when the product on the field is shite lately. I pay a ridiculous amount of money per season to be entertained by good coaches and athletes, not to pat myself on the back because our financial statements are squared away.

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I think at this point you need point out that you are no longer griping about Skip, but Alleva. Unless somehow Johnny Jones is also Skip's fault???

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She's from Louisiana

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Sign her up!

All kidding aside - what are her qualifications? Obviously she's a great coach, but does she have any business or administrative experience?

Is that Kramer's mom?

Literally one sentence in that entire paragraph could be misconstrued to be about Johnny Jones, and it wasn't. Our basketball program has been bad for a long time and Skip certainly didn't do anything to help it. I know that you probably think that there's some clear line where Alleva takes over and WHOOPS SUDDENLY IT'S HIS FAULT but we've been paying for Skip's mistakes until this season in football. Les Miles was his mistake, the bad hire in Mainieri was his mistake, the decline in our track and field program was his mistake, the shitty path that women's basketball took was his mistake. And it's all manifesting now. Even if we get a good AD today, we'll still pay for his and Alleva's bullshite for years.

Almost anyone could've taken over the best baseball program in the history of college baseball and seen success until ~2010, along with anyone taking over for Nick Saban and seeing success. He was given the keys to a new Ferrari and made a bunch of bad hires and now we're seeing it sputter down the road all beat up and nobody wants to place any blame on him. I'm sorry that I'm not impressed with his ability to take over an athletic department that brings in $100,000,000 a year no matter what and make it "profitable" I.E. not completely frick it up. If you were given the keys to a business that brings in hundreds of millions of dollars I'd hope that you'd have the sense to hire someone to simply keep the finances straight and watch the money roll in, and that's what Skip is being praised for. It's not really that big of an accomplishment especially when you look at his mediocre to poor handling of head coaches. Just my opinion though

Just because Miles saw success after taking over Saban's program doesn't make him a long term good hire. And just because Mainieri saw success after taking over the machine that Bertman built doesn't make him a long term good hire. Both of them have proven that they can't get it done by their own skill and accord. Anyone can go out and put a ton of money into a random stock and make money, it doesn't mean that they're educated enough to do it consistently, and that's the problem with Miles and Mainieri. They were both shitty hires by Bertman and I'm sorry if you can't see that today, not really my problem if you can't though.

You come across to me like someone who can't follow a simple timeline. If Alabama would hire Ed Orgeron after Saban retired and he won a championship within 3 years (which he would), would that make Orgeron a "good hire", or the product of a great situation? Not sure what's so hard for people on this board to understand about that. Good moves are good moves no matter the outcome, and our athletics will be in a better position long term if they consistently make good moves coaching-wise, which didn't happen under Bertman

She's probably got more balls than Joe