re: Does Anyone Else Feel Like LSU Football Is Finished?

Since Leslie's last contract extension. That's when I stopped spending $$$ on the program. The insane buyout and rollover...egad, our admin must be composed of incompetents on the level of the Brits who signed on to the Convention of Cintra.

It amazes me the End of LSU Football as we know it is occurring because some coach that wasn't on any Ranters radar 6 weeks ago wasn't nabbed.

And that presumes that Jimbo was all but signed which nobody is really saying. Alexander certainly didn't.

Bring back Chancellor Jenkins

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It amazes me the End of LSU Football as we know it is occurring because some coach that wasn't on any Ranters radar 6 weeks ago wasn't nabbed.

And that presumes that Jimbo was all but signed which nobody is really saying. Alexander certainly didn't.

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I think the real issue is that the decision was made because of political concerns being placed over what's best for the program.

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They care more about what ESPN thinks of them than what needs to be done to keep/put LSU at the top?

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Maybe they dd do what needs to be done to keep LSU at the top

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The academic side needs to cut its costs first before it starts begging for money

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How do you propose they do that more than they already do? Are you forgetting LSU is a school? Maybe you're forgetting that good academic programs actually benefit more people in the long run than a 12-0 season.

If football is that much more important, then just pull for the Saints.

Alexander is certainly going to rue the day he was dumb enough to give that interview but it seems like the politics were simply one of the considerations.

Another was, by his own words, they had "pretty much" already decided to keep Miles. If Jimbo told them to get bent, why would they fire Miles? Just to "do something"?

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I am talking about the leadership from the President to the AD to the boosters. Saban came in 15 years ago and addressed all of that. Skip Bertman corralled it all and made it productive. Now? It is full blown amateur hour.

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Not trying to be a smart arse, but what did Saban do to address that, and what did Bertman do to corral it all? Please cite specific examples in your answers.

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So, the world needs more LSU wins than engineers and mathematicians?

That's what goes first in these budget cuts...science and math.

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This arguement is so shortsighted. Mark E knew that premier athletics was a major cog in getting LSU as a whole on the right track. He stated as much on multiple occasions. That is why Joe Dean was told to butt out of the coaching search when Saban was hired.

A great athletics program for LSU is vital to academics, the state economy, and the LSU brand as a whole.

No, I don't think it's over, but there are concerns. For many years, LSU football was meddled with because of politics and good ole boy politics. Emmert and Saban came in and said, essentially, "We will run the program the way we see fit."

They won and got their way. Bertman had enough cache to continue. Alleva hasn't had the history or clout to carry it, the Tigers have trended down, and the political factions now want a bigger input. Alexander bowed down when he had a chance to make a stand like Emmert did.

It's now on Miles to pull it out. And he should be on the line to make the product better. No question. But when Emmert hired Saban, he took lots of backlash for hiring Saban for the unthinkable sum of something like 1.3 million. But he did it.

I'm a Les Miles fan...but if he was retained simply because of perception over the buyout, political shenanigans are back, and that's not good for LSU.