re: Thoughts on Alleva now?

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Alleva is a bum and always will be. Even if O turns out to be great, the way the hiring process was run was a fricking joke.

He had a lot of help with getting Wade, so he doesn't get much credit there from me.

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Unlike LNCHBOX, I gave O a chance even though I wasn't happy about the hire at first. LNCHBOX may have been wrong about coach O, but I have to agree with him about Alleva.

Alleva is a smug piece of shite and I hate that he’s the AD at LSU.

He has nothing to do with LSU being a baseball power. So he extended CPM, cool.

I don’t know who is responsible for Wade, but remember it was really the idea of someone else pushing Wade? Of course Alleva as AD is going to get credit.

Good on him for writing the letter to get Fulton eligible, but his handling of the coaching search out of pride was pathetic. What he did to the Duke Lacrosse coach over false allegations ( he gave him an ultimatum to resign or be fired ) is forever why I can’t stand him. He should have had his coaches back in the midst of that and let it play out.

Still need to let the 3rd full season of O happen to fully judge things. I’m not exactly thrilled we lost to Florida and a&m and for shut out by Alabama at home yet again with E as OC. This upcoming season is the real season to judge O though. So we shall see. Definitely starting to have some excitement. I hope it works out.

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LSU fans do not like anyone associated with our university. Who cares if we have too 6 football team, top 25 basketball team (for the first time in a long time), #3 in gymnastics and preseason #1 in baseball. None of that matters Alleva has to go

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The gym and baseball coaches were in place BEFORE Alleva arrived at LSU. That would be like giving him credit for Coach K's massive success at Duke.

He swung and missed on two basketball HC. The first wasn't a bad hire on paper. But once it became evident Johnson wasn't going to work out he kept him around until Johnson himself saw the writing on the wall and bolted for TCU. He did so late, which forced Joe into a box that ultimately led to the hiring of Johnny Jones, a move that produced basically what everyone expected it would produce. Because of Joe's extension to Jones following 2 years and one NIT birth (because surely big time schools were beating down the door to hire Jones), he allowed the basketball program to bottom out in Jones' final year. Luckily, a motivated young coach looking to jump to a power conf. job reached out to Joe showing interest in the LSU job. Also, luckily, his assistant AD happened to play for a former young basketball HC named Billy Donovan who saw similarities in Wade. Nunez pushed for Wade.

On the football side Joe let his then HC embarrassingly get carried off the field in his "final game" only to triumphantly "keep" him...and then fire him 4 games into the next season. He then became upset when his #1 choice as a replacement fell through and rushed to the podium to hire a guy (Orgeron) BEFORE the college football season even ended. Orgeron would have been available the day before the 2017 season began.

Now certainly we ALL hope O, Wade and the rest of the coaching staffs perform well. But as others have said, any success LSU has seems to be in spite of Alleva, not because of him.

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despite him rather than because of him

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*in spite of him*

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Alleva is an incompetent boob and any success is despite him rather than because of him.

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Short term… I would say that it’s good that he hasn’t screwed anything up. The verdict is still out on any long-term opinion... as it relates to LSU.

Overall I don’t care for him... the way he handled the Duke lacrosse scandal was spineless and showed a true lack of character.

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KingNOLA

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You sly little troll.

You are asking a bunch of yahoos who can't balance their checkbook (assuming there is actual money in the account) to assess a man that has guided the LSU athletic department to one of the most profitable in the country.

Well trolled sir, well trolled.

Unless the tailgate/ parking map, or commercial centric nature of fall Saturdays, has changed without me noticing, he still sucks.

I have no issues with the guy. I'm just genuinely curious. I find myself agreeing with him on sports topics here and there.

The fact that he didn’t straight up tell Florida to go frick itself when they pulled their bullshite let’s me know all I need to about him.