Various Media articles: What was said in Alleva’s meeting with coaches?

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Gridiron Now article: What was said in Joe Alleva’s closed-door meeting with Orgeron, Canada and Aranda?

(Chris Landry is a veteran NFL scout who has worked for the Cleveland Browns and the Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans. Previously, he ran the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis and served as an assistant coach at LSU. Landry is a consultant for multiple NFL teams and major college programs.)

When LSU athletic director Joe Alleva called a closed-door meeting with coach Ed Orgeron, offensive coordinator Matt Canada and defensive coordinator Dave Aranda following the team’s loss to Troy, it was inevitable that details of the meeting would trickle out. Chris Landry shared those details on his latest podcast.

“The coordinators told fellow coaching buddies about what happened in that meeting … (Coaching is) a very close-knit community,” Landry said. “There’s been no shyness about explaining what went on in that meeting.”

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Saturday Down South article: Report: LSU AD Joe Alleva reviews game film with Coach O every week, coaching meeting explained

Some of Orgeron’s methods and decisions have not looked great, and it was recently reported that LSU AD Joe Alleva has taken to dissecting film with Orgeron on Sundays.

Chris Landry shared the report on the Landry Football Podcast:

“Joe Alleva has taken to going into the office every Sunday and watching film with Ed,” said Landry “And that’s been widely, popularly received by the assistant coaches there…Most athletic directors would never do this because they’re not football people.”

Landry claims he asked legendary coach and current Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez if he would ever have that type of meeting with a head coach, and Alvarez said no. It certainly is an interesting tactic, and Landy believes Alleva’s move “shows lack of respect for the head coach.”

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Hayride article: Just When You Thought LSU Was Climbing Out Of The Football Woods…

…there comes yesterday’s Chris Landry podcast, in which the Louisiana native and former NFL scout, who spent quite a bit of time involved with the LSU football program in the 1980’s and 1990’s, brought out details of the infamous meeting between LSU athletic director Joe Alleva, head football coach Ed Orgeron and offensive and defensive coordinators Matt Canada and Dave Aranda.

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Yahoo Sports: LSU Athletic Director Joins Film Session

What kind of message is LSU AD Joe Alleva sending by sitting in on film sessions with head coach Ed Orgeron?

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Gridiron Now article: The rise and fall of LSU football – from the inside

Chris Landry knows the inner workings of LSU football as well as anyone. The story he has to tell about those inner workings in recent years is not a pretty one for Tiger fans.

While the backstory proves fascinating for college football fans in general and LSU fans in particular with wonderfully detailed stories about Les Miles, Nick Saban, Jimmy Sexton, Joe Dean, Skip Bertman and numerous other college sports heavyweights, we’ll pick the story up following Les Miles firing in September of 2016 and LSU’s search for his permanent replacement later that year.

“Ed Orgeron would’ve waited as long as LSU wanted him to wait (to be named head coach),” Landry explains. “No one else was interested in hiring (him). Yes, (LSU) needed to put coordinators together, but there was time for that. Instead, (LSU athletic director) Joe Alleva – EGO – in wanting to announce Ed Orgeron as the coach, and say, ‘we never offered anything to Jimbo Fisher, we never offered anything to Tom Herman’ – which was false and false, they made offers on both – they wanted to announce Ed Orgeron before Texas made their announcement. In essence, ‘yeah, this is who we wanted.’

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