re: F. KIng Alexander Speaks on Miles Decision

MY HUMBLE OPINION:

It's amateur football. It's a school's football team. The players are students, playing for their school.

If you want to cheer for a football organization whose only objective is to win THE Championship, root for an NFL team.

LSU is a state school that exists for educating children. The "mind-set" is never, ever going to be "win the national championship at all hazards". Other school objectives and considerations, such as money, such as public perception, and the like, will ALWAYS be just as important at LSU as winning THE Championship.

That's why I agree with those who say that two or three losses in the SEC West every season is not going to spark a change in the head coach's position.

If the Athletic Dept stops making money from LSU football, THAT would spark a change. But, that has never happened and I doubt that it ever will happen.

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Also again it's their money and they can donate it how they see fit.

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Sigh.

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“No matter how you explain it, it’s still a $15 million to $25 million decision that needs to be factored into the overall equation.”

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Does that a-hole still not understand how the buyout works? If Les gets another job, LSU doesn't owe him hardly anything.

Once again F. King Alexander has his hand out. I hope Joe Alleva tells him to frick off instead of donating another THIRTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS from the athletic department to the schools general fund.


from 3 years ago...

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BATON ROUGE, La. -- The LSU Athletics Department has agreed to give $36 million over five years to the flagship campus to help bolster academic programs that have been hit with continued budget cuts.


Louisiana State University's governing board, the Board of Supervisors, approved the unique, profit-sharing arrangement Friday.

Athletics director Joe Alleva says he knows of no similar arrangement at other colleges around the country.

The athletics program will transfer $7.2 million to other campus programs each year for five years, and if the athletics department generates a surplus beyond $3 million per year, the academic side of the school will get a portion of that surplus money, as well.

Alleva says the agreement will "put LSU in a position of envy" of other schools around the country.

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Also again it's their money and they can donate it how they see fit.


Sigh.

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I mean doesn't SPEEDY have a point? He's now come out and said the money was in place and raised, you just did not want it spent for perception reasons.

How is that better?

Again, this interview was disaster on so many levels.

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MY HUMBLE OPINION:

It's amateur football. It's a school's football team. The players are students, playing for their school.

If you want to cheer for a football organization whose only objective is to win THE Championship, root for an NFL team.

LSU is a state school that exists for educating children. The "mind-set" is never, ever going to be "win the national championship at all hazards". Other school objectives and considerations, such as money, such as public perception, and the like, will ALWAYS be just as important at LSU as winning THE Championship.

That's why I agree with those who say that two or three losses in the SEC West every season is not going to spark a change in the head coach's position.

If the Athletic Dept stops making money from LSU football, THAT would spark a change. But, that has never happened and I doubt that it ever will happen.

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The LSU admin share your opinion and thats too bad. Its very short sighted. If LSU was annual National championship contender the investment in that would reap huge financial benefits for the brand LSU.

Instead its back to obscurity LSU goes. Its a bad decision

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LSU is supposed to be a college with a football team. but it is obvious that some, if not many think that it's a football team with a college. 

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I agree. But enrollment numbers do go up after winning a title.

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I agree. But enrollment numbers do go up after winning a title.

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LSU doesn't want increased enrollment, btw.

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Alexander confirms reports that the final decision on Miles’ future did not come until after a halftime meeting during the Nov. 29 game against Texas A&M, though he says the decision had “pretty much been made” a few days earlier. Among those in the halftime meeting were Alexander, Athletic Director Joe Alleva, and several members of the LSU Board of Supervisors.

“It was a combination of factors and a decision that we made collectively,” Alexander says. “We weighed all the factors in all this and it was a joint decision between many of our board members, our AD and many of us decided this was the wrong time and wrong place (to replace Miles.)”

“After the type of budget battle we went through this past spring we certainly do not need to be throwing tens of millions of dollars around under certain circumstances,” he says. “We don’t need to go into the next legislative session with a black eye that we’re throwing tens of millions of dollars around on issues that aren’t associated with academic progress.”

“The public at large really doesn’t differentiate where the money comes from,” he says. “No matter how you explain it, it’s still a $15 million to $25 million decision that needs to be factored into the overall equation.”

“Decisions like that are complex and complicated and based on performance history, the direction of the program and oftentimes they don’t have easy answers,” he says. “You have to weigh everything. A lot of people out there said we had to do something. Half the people said we don’t have to do anything and emotions were all over the place. Somehow you have to not overreact to the emotions and weigh all the factors.”

“Joe and I have a very good working relationship,” he says. “Les and I do, too.”

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Well whoever posted the hayride article "source" talking about this apparently got it right.

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Work this out behind closed doors not in the town square with everyone looking in and judging. Pathetic management.

It's not the decision, it's the way

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Indeed, everybody in the world agrees with you here. I'm willing to bet that LSU handles this better next time.

Increased applications = justification for raising tuition (again)