re: Vote of Confidence from Alleva

Its simple - he's telling Miles to be in a position to represent the West in Atlanta at the end of the season and you will have a good shot at the BCS Title Game or a BCS Bowl. 8 or 9 wins not punch your ticket for Atlanta unless its for the Chick Filet Bowl.

The sentence that did not make the final version was - "I told that idiot to can Crowton, but he disobeyed me. We are going to claim insubordination and cause at the end of 2010 and have a mediator negotiate the final buyout."

Thought he was responding to some of my emails

Isn't this the same freakin rhetoric we heard after 8-5 last year??? It's hard for the head coach to change anything for the better when he doesn't have a clue what he is doing wrong or how to fix it.

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ADs routinely issue scathing letters about its football program to the fans.

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This equates to "scathing" in your mind:

"let's celebrate the fact that LSU football is thriving"

Seems like reasonable statement from the AD. He hit the highs, the lows, the in betweens and ended with "LSU football is thriving".

He doesn't seem to see only in black or white and I like that fact.

Alleva beginning to look and sound like Joe Dean. Only Joe Dean could find a silver lining in an Offense ranked 112th without a sacrificial lamb such as Crowton. Unlike Dean, the Alum support is not there for Alleva. Alleva is obviously not strong enough or have enough power to do anything other than support Miles. He just placed his career on the Miles bandwagon.

Next time we need a coach, spend $2 million a year for a new President at LSU, and bring back Mark Emmert. Lombardi thinks he is bigger than the university, Emmert knows how to make the University complete in all phases. This is all about raising money, something that is losing momemtum at LSU since Lombardi took over, and the excuse of the economy is just that an excuse. Forget Miles, the problem is bigger than Miles. Bring back Emmert and LSU will be a winner setting the bar!

Looks to me that he is feeling some serious heat. 2010 will make or break he and Miles.

Sonofabitch is scared shitless that season ticket renewals will drop!

He makes some strong points.

It was a very specifically worded message. While it did try to buck up Miles, the way I read it, it was also a warning to him. And that's good.

Miles knows he's got another year to fix this and deliver or GTFO. This ain't your grandpa's LSU. We aren't accepting mediocre anymore and Alleva knows that Miles will only precede him by a small amount of time if they don't turn this around.

That said, you have to respect that these guys do know what they're talking about better than we do. They could be wrong of course, but the odds are in their favor vs the fan base. Miles needed the semi spanking just so there was no doubt and hopefully he could placate the fans and TAF ever so slightly that he's not just ignoring us. There's more happening than we will ever be aware of. And anybody that thinks that after this season those coaches haven't grasped the gravity of their positions is just deluding themselves. You come to work for LSU these days you know up front you're risking your career if you don't perform because you really can't place any blame on the recruits. We've got more than sufficient talent to take it all the way regularly.

I'm willing to not lose my mind between now and December so long as I see improvement. I disagree with them about keeping Crowton but what do I know? Maybe he'll get a fire shooting out his arse as a result of all the heat on it and suddenly realize he won't be saved by moving to another program before the depth of his total failure is revealed. We shall see.

I for one am not depressed by this. They've got one more year to fix it to me. After that, I'll be right there with the negatigers.

Till then,

AD's do not write letters like these, with this tone, unless they are doing two things:

(1) Telling the fan-base that they have been heard.

(2) Telling the coach you have a clear requirement to do a particular thing.


In this case Alleva's letter makes it clear:

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I want to make it clear that LSU is committed to having a football program that regularly plays for championships.

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He then spends two paragraphs defending Miles. Now if you really think your coach is doing a slam-dunk job, you don't spend two paragraphs defending him. You say "Coach Miles did a great job." Alleva has now had to put himself on the line, so it is now personal with Alleva. If it is personal with Alleva, you can bet Alleva has made it clear to Les.

Get to the SEC Championship game.

So how long does Les have to get there? One year for sure, maybe two, but no more than two.