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Obviously, the truth lies somewhere in between all of the noise, but the one common factor across all of it is that LSU, specifically Alleva, was concerned that the damage any more highly publicized "misses" would do to the program's image. The powers that be felt "forced" to act quickly and capitalized on the good PR and existing support O had because there weren't options at that time.

Yeah, I agree that this happened. Alleva was trying to do damage control and get ahead of the Herman fiasco.

The problem was that he should have taken the hit, regrouped, and done a real search for the good of the program. He panicked and jumped the gun. We would have had people interested had we shown interest.

Then he gives O a gigantic buy out. The incompetence involved in this situation is unreal.

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Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:11 pm to abellsujr

From what I've gathered, LSU fricked up in the Miles situation and the public way that boosters and admin handled it made a lot of guys who'd love the role balk. For better or worse, O was allegedly chosen for reasons almost completely unrelated to football with the upside that he'd eat up time needed to "smooth over" the damage to LSU's image.

Guys like Jimbo and Herman weren't ever really coming, but hot coaching commodities weren't exactly excited to take over after the shitshow firing of a guy who won a title and averaged 10 win seasons. After the O experiment runs its course, I'm confident that the hire is at the very least a hot coaching name if not a big hire.

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