re: Alleva hired the following at Duke in a similar fashion to Orgeron...

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I don’t want to hear “We we’re never gonna best Texas” I just watched UCLA and Nebraska best Florida for a coach.

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I'm not defending Alleva, and Jimbo and Herman shouldn't have been the only two choices before Orgeron, but this statement is contradictory to your point. We were Florida in this scenario. UF was a better job but got beat out by one alma mater and one school that offered an environment the coach wanted more, a familiar conference and city that recruits itself. It happens.

Alleva should have understood that and had more options, especially with all the time he had, but there was nothing he could have done to get Herman. He had been telling people for 3 years he was going back to UT. Jimbo obviously wasn't going to settle for anything less than unfettered loyalty in the form of a $75M contract. The only coach that can demand that kind of unquestioned commitment from a big time program is Saban, no way LSU should or would have signed off on that for Jimbo.