How did Alleva get another job after the Duke Lacrosse scandal?

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The scandal alone was bad enough but when you look back 10-15 years later and it’s known he made almost every wrong decision it’s amazing he got another gig.

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The athletic director at Duke who threw Pressler under the bus? Joe Alleva, the current athletic director at LSU. There has never been much scrutiny about Alleva’s actions, largely because he was carrying out orders from university president Richard Brodhead who would have served him up to the lynch mob had he stood for his athletes getting due process, but Pressler did write a book about the case and Duke’s treatment of it called “It’s Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives It Shattered.” From an AP report about the book’s release…

Pressler also questioned actions by Duke University officials, recalling an April 5, 2006, morning meeting with athletics director Joe Alleva in which Pressler finds out the team’s season will be canceled.

“‘Joe, you told the players and the parents you believed their story, you believed in them, you believed that they were telling the truth,”‘ Pressler, in the book, recalls saying.

Pressler said Alleva told him it wasn’t about the truth anymore, according to the book passage.

Pressler says he pleaded with Alleva to wait for DNA results on his players, but a violently worded e-mail from player Ryan McFadyen about strippers came out later that afternoon. Alleva then told Pressler that Brodhead planned a news conference to announce Pressler’s resignation and the suspension of the season, according to the book.

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Better yet, how did he get another job after “his son’s” boating accident while he was the AD at Duke.

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You people are forever asking the wrong questions.

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His son with the DUI somehow swam to shore while he was “knocked out”

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