USA Today article this morning

This bodes well for O.

Link to said article removed by fact checkers

Alleva continues to be possibly the worst ad ever

following Alleva

2 takeaways (if story true):

Segar will not be missed.

Still lots of moles/leaks in the LSU admin.

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This bodes well for O

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Yeah, no.

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The report shows that deputy athletic director Verge Ausberry and football recruiting director Sharon Lewis admitted it was their practice to steer allegations against athletes to Miriam Segar, a senior associate athletic director, instead of reporting them directly to the Title IX coordinator, as LSU policy requires.

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This does not. Any information the Assistant Athletic Director for Football Recruiting has can certainly be attributed to the HC as well. If people at that level are making decisions on Title IX investigations without even consulting or informing the HC I would think that would be a textbook definition of lack of institutional control, as the face of the program and person in direct control of the players in question had zero control over what was happening with his players.

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A lack of institutional control is found when the Committee on Infractions determines that major violations occurred and the institution failed to display: Adequate compliance measures. Appropriate education on those compliance measures. Sufficient monitoring to ensure the compliance measures are followed.

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I know there are many here that would put O’s future above the university’s, but O shirking responsibility for overseeing people directly underneath him put the athletic department and football program in a much more precarious position.

Perfect example of what I have posted before about Title IX. It is a Federal Law, similar to to Title VII (think sexual harassment in the workplace) that is applicable to universities. Corporations have spent billions training professional HR personnel for years , as well as there employees on what to do relative reporting and investigation. Universities have academicians and assist athletic directors in charge of the same thing. No wonder it’s a cluster at every school. Academicians are horrible administrators and assistant athletic directors are inside of their own bubble where real world rules usually don’t apply. F King and Alleva created this mess and conveniently are not here to deal with the fall out. You can bet money that Verge, Segur and Lewis are gone. Also, the I don’t see how the tennis coaches survive.

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I know there are many here that would put O’s future above the university’s, but O shirking responsibility for overseeing people directly underneath him put the athletic department and football program in a much more precarious position.

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To be fair, the article includes an email from Joe Alleva instructing athletic department employees to run sexual misconduct allegations through Miriam Segar.

Now I start to wonder how/if this all played into Alleva’s termination.

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It looks and sounds like an inside the AD admins issue. Are head coaches responsible?

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While the ultimate “responsibility” for reporting goes beyond O, his head of recruiting and WR coach had first hand knowledge of the allegations and the lack of reporting.


If we are to believe the HC wasn’t given that information by direct subordinates about a player on his roster, there are bigger institutional issues with this CEO model than we imagined.

Let’s be honest. We all know there is no way Mickey, at the least, wasn’t telling O exactly what was going in with this situation, and it was likely widely discussed with Mickey, O, Verge, Lewis and others.


While that may not be easy to “prove” without Mickey or Verge admitting that publicly, the NCAA is not a court of law and can attribute knowledge to anyone they believe would have or should have known in a properly functioning institutional process.


The same way the tennis coaches knew what was happening with their players, there is no way the football coach wasn’t aware, or should have been.

Just because there is a bigger department to insulate O from dealing with these player issues directly like the tennis coaches had to, that doesn’t mean O wasn’t aware of what his players were doing because a WR coach was there to attend meetings with investigators in his place.

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but O shirking responsibility for overseeing people directly underneath him put the athletic department and football program in a much more precarious position.

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O has let go of players since being named head coach. In that regard he has done the right thing. Guice is the key imo. How much did O know when Miles was fired ? I think (and I could be wrong) Miles has more culpability in the Guice case than does O.