re: One thing sure has become abundantly clear....

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Is that you have never been in a managerial position. The boss, however described may well ask for suggestions but ultimately it is his decision to make.

If every subordinate in an organization had is own way you would have chaos.

Look at it this way. Let's assume all the assistant coaches have this free rein you seem to think is so wonderful. The OC decides that the first play will be a deep pass to the right. The line coach disagrees and he instructs the line to fire out zone blocking, while the running backs coach instructs his charges to run a jet sweep to the wide side, while the QB coach thinks that a boot leg to the short side is just dandy. The receivers coach goes into a snit because he really wants a bubble screen.

Sounds productive doesn't it? The job of a manager is to accept suggestions from subordinates and then do what he thinks is best for the situation.

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Actually, you're dead wrong on this. You must be "gray" from working as one of the old folks at McDonalds or as a Walmart greeter.

Take if from someone who has been in corporate management. You make the "big" decisions, but vital to your success is hiring capable mid-level managers and letting them manage.

I can give you a specific example of how this relates to a great head coach and his offensive line coach. This comes from the book, The Biggest Game of Them All, by Mike Celizic.

Before their national championship 1966 season, Ara Parseghian hired an offensive line coach who had an unorthodox zone blocking scheme of which AP was skeptical, though he was impressed by the coach's sense of detail.

AP said, "You really believe in this, don't you?"

Coach: "Yes, I do."

Ara: "Okay, you're hired. Implement your system and if it works, I will give you all the credit. But if it doesn't work, I will fire your arse immediately. Understand?"

That's how a real corporate executive, top manager operates. Miles apparently had problems with letting his coaches coach.

LSU football under his watch had become what Morgan Freeman's character in Shawshank Redemption called "institutionalized," where a lifer prisoner was afraid of life on the outside since prison was all he knew.

We were constantly told by pumpers like you to be very afraid--"What if we fire Miles and end up worse?!!?"

I think anyone with any sense is now glad Alleva finally made the move.