re: Bill King calls Alleva biggest “Douchecanoe”!

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Bill King is an idiot and is not much better than Finebaum, he's just mad he never made it Finebaum status. He has to trash other teams because Tenn has been so awful.

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Be that as it may, he's not exactly wrong about Alleva. Fair or not, of his 4 major hires (football/basketball), one won the SEC and flamed out just as quickly (Johnson). Two were guys that literally no other major conf. program would even consider as HC candidates (Jones and Ogeron). The fourth guy (Wade) seems to be a good hire (perhaps great hire). But judging from his previous track record can we say that was Alleva's doing? His guy largely responsible for basketball at the time, Eddie Nunez, was a former Florida player who played and coached under Billy Donovan. It was Nunez who pushed for Wade as a guy who really reminded him of a young Donovan. Left to his own devices, Alleva would have likely hired a mediocre HC who was in minimal demand.

I am hoping beyond hope that Ogeron proves everyone wrong and has a great tenure at LSU. But from poor coaching hires, to completely bungling the Miles removal, his tenure hasn't been great.