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Why was Alleva ever hired?
Posted on 10/1/17 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 10/1/17 at 12:39 pm
The duke lacross scandal is one of the most embarrassing and poorly managed incidents in modern collegiate athletics.
Let me guess - cronyism and politics.
Let me guess - cronyism and politics.
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Posted on 10/1/17 at 12:41 pm to siliconvalleytiger
He was a puppet and still is.
Posted on 10/1/17 at 12:41 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Cronyism and Politics was part of it, but also part of it was Les Miles was the coach at LSU. Alleva started in 2008, fresh off a football National Title. The thought was he would not need to be making a football hire soon, and coming from Duke, maybe he could get the basketball program going.
Everyone was wrong on all accords. shite happens. Time to fix it though.
Everyone was wrong on all accords. shite happens. Time to fix it though.
Posted on 10/1/17 at 12:43 pm to siliconvalleytiger
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Let me guess - cronyism and politics.
That and he probably impressed fking F. King with his version of the binder.
Posted on 10/1/17 at 12:47 pm to tigerfan5803
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The thought was he would not need to be making a football hire soon, and coming from Duke, maybe he could get the basketball program going.
As if that fricking numbnuts had anything to do with the basketball success at Duke
I understand you are saying that is what the board thought, not you personally, but it's just so absurd that the decision makers at LSU proceeded under that belief
Posted on 10/1/17 at 1:00 pm to Tiger Voodoo
Just find it amazing that a disgraced official who should never get hired after Duke lands at LSU and screws our program over.
Posted on 10/1/17 at 1:02 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Posted on 10/1/17 at 1:03 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Who hired him? Was it F King? Sorry, I don’t know the hierarchy of the administration
Posted on 10/1/17 at 1:03 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Does he have previous history with the people who hired him? Whose crony is he? What politics?
This post was edited on 10/1/17 at 1:04 pm
Posted on 10/1/17 at 1:06 pm to VooDude
Agree with everything except the lowballing of Herman. We were being used. Herman wanted Texas. 5 mil is not a lowball price. It’s what Texas is paying him.
This post was edited on 10/1/17 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 10/1/17 at 1:07 pm to rsylve
I don't know. That's why I started the thread. Why did we ever hire him?
Posted on 10/1/17 at 1:15 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Hopefully someone who does chimes in. The whole Duke lacrosse saga was off my radar. Don’t even remember him from that.
Posted on 10/1/17 at 1:21 pm to rsylve
According to the guys that run The Hayride on the Fire Joe Alleva facebook page:
Those of you who are asking how Joe Alleva was hired at LSU in the first place, given that he was the athletic director who oversaw the dissolution of the Duke lacrosse program based on what turned out to be false accusations, may find this story interesting.
It turns out that Jack Weiss, who was the dean of the LSU law school at the time and who had been put in charge of the search committee for an athletic director to replace Skip Bertman, had been roommates at Yale with Richard Brodhead, the then-president at Duke. Brodhead sold Alleva to Weiss as a star AD who was ready to move because of a bad rap he was getting in the aftermath of the lacrosse case.
Somehow, Brodhead's sales job worked on Weiss, and a rigged hiring process was put in place to make the hire. Weiss touted the necessity of "transparency," and specifically that the applicants should sit for a panel interview streaming live on the internet. No other sitting athletic director, save the one at Florida Atlantic, agreed to that, and Alleva got the job.
LSU hired the athletic director who shut down a national championship-quality program based on a lie, and did so in a brother-in-law, rigged process.
And nine years later the athletic department is more or less in ruins.
Those of you who are asking how Joe Alleva was hired at LSU in the first place, given that he was the athletic director who oversaw the dissolution of the Duke lacrosse program based on what turned out to be false accusations, may find this story interesting.
It turns out that Jack Weiss, who was the dean of the LSU law school at the time and who had been put in charge of the search committee for an athletic director to replace Skip Bertman, had been roommates at Yale with Richard Brodhead, the then-president at Duke. Brodhead sold Alleva to Weiss as a star AD who was ready to move because of a bad rap he was getting in the aftermath of the lacrosse case.
Somehow, Brodhead's sales job worked on Weiss, and a rigged hiring process was put in place to make the hire. Weiss touted the necessity of "transparency," and specifically that the applicants should sit for a panel interview streaming live on the internet. No other sitting athletic director, save the one at Florida Atlantic, agreed to that, and Alleva got the job.
LSU hired the athletic director who shut down a national championship-quality program based on a lie, and did so in a brother-in-law, rigged process.
And nine years later the athletic department is more or less in ruins.
Posted on 10/1/17 at 1:23 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Why wasn't Dan R. Promoted instead of letting him leave for Clemson.
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