re: Keep him, fire him, whatever, but let me say one thing....

If Les Miles walked out tomorrow saying that he was retiring, I would not trust Alleva and the big money boosters not to screw up the process. I always thought so and that's been reinforced after this week.

My main hope is that when CLM does actually leave (if he's fired or retires or what) that we have an AD with fricking balls at that point in time. Otherwise, our hiring process will look like Texas' did post-Mack but probably even worse. We'll have boosters going off on their own trying to get someone almost impossible to get, and when that almost impossible hire is indeed impossible, they'll have made such a muck of everything that no one decent will touch us...and we'll end up with a Dinardo if we're lucky.

Yes, the boosters fricked up by shooting off their mouths, but if reports are true and they went around the Athletic Department in contacting Fisher and tried to force things:

1) they helped demonstrate that they view Alleva as weak and a puppet (he is, IMO), and that fact being so openly broadcast that fact *might* just make some coaches think twice about coming here (see Texas/Mack);

2) that they are dumb as stumps--or at least have not watched coaching searches at other major colleges over the last decade--for not having a plan b, c, and d...and even e. Once they put the 'we're going to fire CLM' thing in motion, they needed to stick with it no matter how it played out. To have everything fold because they had nothing other than plan a shows that they are even more incompetent than CLM;

3) and they also very badly misjudged how this would play out in the local and national media. CLM is liked, if not respected, and broadcasting the decision to fire him partway through a subpar but not losing season wasn't going to play well in the national narrative. If they realized this, they would have kept their mouths shut (see: Georgia, 2015, Richt).

Alleva isn't Joe Dean, but he's getting damn near close.