Question(s) for the protesters (of Coach O hire)

Look, you have a right to rant on a site named the rant.

Yet, you should be prepared to offer a cogent alternative to what occurred.

1) Fisher: Would you have relented to Jimbo for his outrageous demands? I doubt it. 8M a year is hideous. Alleva did the right thing in not pursueing this strong-but-unreasonable "candidate". Would your best AD have magically persuaded Sexton to a more reasonable price? Nope.

2) Herman - Trace Armstrong (a staunch Florida Gator, mind you) was attempting to get a max contract for his client. Texas and Trace are most likely the leak that Mark May erroneously blamed on LSU, and it was to do what you would have done if you were Herman. A day after your last game at Texas, from the Herman perspective (not from an LSU kid on a site called the rant), you would have been talked into listening to the Texas offer as well. You know you would have. Alleva was not going to be taken for a fool, realizing that Herman would likely get persuaded, and would have raised the price tag for Herman to nearly twice the money as Coach O. So, he did not wait for this to be further dragged out, and cut off the "negotations" with Herman. Sure, Herman was the top choice, but Alleva senses Trace, the UT donors and The Longhorn Networks owner -ESPN- were going to either raise the price to a level Herman was not deemed worthy of, and likely loose in the end. So, tell me: What would your magic charming AD have done to get this to go better?

3) Fedora, Holgerson, Fuentes, etc...Fuentes, maybe, but I hardly saw anyone on here squaking for his services, and he is arguably too early in his VaTech career.

4) Josh McDaniels? - YOu think he's leaving Tom Brady on a playoff run. Nope. And you would have roasted Alleva anyway. Perhaps Alleva floated the idea and it was not floating. Who knows. And don't get too caught up isolating to a rebuttal on this entry, as it was not really an option, so pay attention to the rest of the thread.

5) Who you got?

Unless you have a cogent plan on how your magic AD would have come out with this fictitious hire, please do the reasonable thing and quit your Hillary Clinton style meltdown and do the reasonable thing: Drop your protest, say Geaux Tigers, and get on to the new era of Tiger football.

Coach O is showing great leadership skills to control what he has control over, and he will get an offseason with a heck of a lot better QB coach, OC and actual QB than Miles has fielded over the last few years. The QB will be developed and fit to the offense. He'll do whatever he can to recruit the best players and coached and inspire them.

I have my beef with Alleva as well, but I cannot see a different path given who was available, and how their agents/targets behaved.

Get over it or pony up a better theory/option.

Geaux Tigers