Do You Think Alleva Is Letting JJ Play the Season Out to Bury Brown/Temple?

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c) Alleva is so incompetent/aloof about athletics to think there's actually an issue with LSU basketball.

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Doubt it. I've seen Alleva speak in seminars on campus and if there is one thing he is ultra-aware of and responsive to, its money. He sees those already-low ticket sales going even lower. No doubt about that.

Alleva is doing exactly that. He's letting Dale and Collis and the boys see what they lobbied for. Joe enjoys a little condescension as much as anyone. He's absolutely gonna let jones go down in flaming ball of poo bc joe knows how this makes the good ole boys look too. He's gonna get his money's worth and then he will make the change. Don't expect it prior to seasons end. Joe is enjoying his I told you so too much right now

Why would anybody think Alleva has a plan about anything at this point?

Alleva doesn't want to fire 2 coaches in-season, but he really needs to end this debacle with JJ now. Can't really get a great coach until after madness is over. So no giant hurry I guess. Let this season be over with.

LSU saves $800000 by firing him at the end of the year. If one of you Ballers won't him gone that bad I'm sure if you will write the check he would be gone tomorrow

I think he lets it go to the end for a few reasons:

1. A change now isn't going to "save" the season and he doesn't have many (if any) influential boosters/BOS members jumping down his throat to replace Jones like he did with Miles.

2. Jones has definitely underachieved, but he hasn't been horrible until this season. For all of the obviously weak coaching, this will be his first losing season. Maybe Joe thinks he deserves to finish out his tenure.

3. He may not want to get the reputation of an AD who has a proclivity to fire coaches mid-season. While becoming less so, it's still somewhat taboo to fire a coach mid-season in the college game. Maybe he thinks doing it twice in the same season will hurt his chances of luring a good coach here.

***In the end does it really matter though? We've seen what he did with a two-month head start on replacing Miles. He could have gotten the same result with a two minute head start. Hopefully Joe is putting together a short list and getting a game plan ready implement as soon as the season ends. However, based on past history, we can't be confident that is the case.

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There's really no positive way to spin what's happening because it means one of the following:

a) Alleva was a weak enough AD to succumb to the influence of Brown and Temple in hiring a basketball coach and needs things to get ugly enough to neuter their influence.

b) Alleva is so weak of an AD that he doesn't have enough professional/political clout to oust JJ.

c) Alleva is so incompetent/aloof about athletics so as not to think there's actually an issue with LSU basketball.

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I can't stand Alleva. But this is a dumb post.

D) Alleva is waiting until the end of the season when a change will be made.

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Alleva is so incompetent/aloof about athletics to think there's actually an issue with LSU basketball.

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Do people really think that the guy who does this for a living, and has knowledge of all the behind-the-scenes circumstances that we don't, isn't perceptive enough to know that there's no issue with the basketball team? All because he doesn't make a knee-jerk blind firing without a long term plan?

So he's just supposed to make a quick off-with-their-head decision and then think about the repercussions and future plan afterwards?

I mean that's borderline delusion from the fanbase. We have absolutely NO IDEA what's going on behind closed doors.

He never had to think about firing the basketball coach at duke. Maybe he needs on the job training.

Is there anything Alleva has been involved in that hasn't turned into a PR nightmare?

LSU should have known what they were getting in Alleva when they hired him because of the Duke lacrosse scandal.