re: Terms for hiring Briles were pitched to Joe Alleva by Coach O. Lets Go all out Tigers.

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He's already named in a lawsuit.

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I wonder how you would feel if your daughter was raped and Briles hired a lawyer that got him off clean and the lawyer laughed at your daughter?

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But none of that means the rest of the coaching staff allowed, or even knew, all of it.

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New Baylor lawsuit alleges 52 rapes by football players

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I find it impossible to believe his son knew nothing.

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lmao dude got arrested for driving a boat. You think that's the same as raping kids? Yes or no.

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peanuts4brainz

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New Baylor lawsuit alleges 52 rapes by football players

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Don't you just hate innocent until PROVEN guilty?

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Ed Orgeron’s rap sheet is lengthy.

In 1991 as an assistant at Miami, (wikipedia) “a "permanent injunction of protection" was granted to a woman by a Dade County court against Orgeron prohibiting "any act of domestic violence." Orgeron was ordered into a 26-week domestic violence counseling program.”

In 1992, still an assistant at Miami, he was arrested in a bar fight in Baton Rouge. You know something is wrong when you’ve done five years at Miami, then get back into coaching after a year hiatus at Nichols State.

At Southern Cal earlier this decade, Orgeron was THE recruiting coordinator while Reggie Bush made off with that $100K.

After Hurricane Katrina, with Tulane’s program in shambles (before they were able to share facilities with Louisiana Tech, and thus keep playing the season), Orgeron called Greg Davis’ son, and Tulane assistant, and tried to begin poaching players for Ole Miss from the Tulane program. Davis turned him in. Nothing ever came of it after Orgeron pretended he didn’t know it was a violation. Highly ticked Tulane head coach Chris Scelfo said of Orgeron, "there's people in our business who do not belong in our business". Scelfo was correct.

At Tennessee all the sudden - Orgeron having only been there a year - six “minor” NCAA violations for the Vols. Finally, after leaving Tennessee, Orgeron called early recruits at Tennessee, trying to recruit them to USC…after they were already technically enrolled at Tennessee. Had he forgotten the rules he had already learned after his own Tulane scandal?

What's next?

Ban this piece of dirt from college football.

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A Baton Rouge man has pleaded guilty to a charge he used a fraudulent Coast Guard license to work as a pilot on the Mississippi River.

The Times-Picayune archive Hale Boggs Federal Building, 500 Poydras Street, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana

Thirty-six-year-old Dereck Ponamsky faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine following his guilty plea Thursday. His sentencing is set for May 17.

Federal prosecutors say Ponamsky altered his Coast Guard license to include a "first class pilot endorsement" to which he wasn't entitled. He used the altered license to work as a pilot for the New Orleans-Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots Association from June 2005 until February 2008.

-Times Picayune

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Enough apologizing and enough martyrdom. It was a known fact on the Duke campus for years that the lacrosse team overdid it when it came to partying. There was a written report in 2004 that said just that and Tallman Trask, the university vice president allegedly overseeing the athletic department, and Joe Alleva, allegedly the athletic director, did absolutely nothing about it. Alleva fired Mike Pressler, the lacrosse coach, because a scapegoat was needed in the immediate aftermath of the incident and Pressler took the hit.

Here's what's wrong with all this: No one at Duke is ever wrong. Duke's last president, Nan Keohane, made a terrible choice when she selected Alleva as athletic director in 1998. Everyone at Duke knew that Alleva was a pleasant man whose next original idea would be his first, someone whose main asset when applying for the job was the fact that his racquetball partner was Mike Krzyzewski.

Five years later, Alleva had lived down to everything expected of him: taking a bad football program and making it worse, hiring a crony as baseball coach who HAD to be fired because the team was awful and former players came forward to say he had encouraged them to use steroids, and looking foolish almost everyone time he opened his mouth in public (which he rarely did, usually hiding behind press releases). Alleva did what everyone else at Duke has done for years and rode the coattails of Krzyzewski's successful basketball team. Keohane looked at this record and gave Alleva a new contract.

Why? Because she was a typical academician: Completely unable to admit a mistake.

Suspending the season while waiting for the results of DNA testing was understandable. But once the DNA tests came back completely negative, Brodhead should have reinstated the season. He didn't though, in large part because his closest advisors: Trask, Alleva and university flack John Burness --ALL Keohane hires --didn't have the spine to tell him to do so. It is an indictment of Brodhead's leadership that, in spite of the fact that Trask, Alleva and Burness have consistently proven themselves incompetent, he hasn't brought in his own people to replace them.

-Washington Post

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