Who was LSU’s worst AD

The punchabilty of this face alone is enough to crown him the winner of this competition.

Alleva had already tried the "let's hire the interim football coach full time" move at Duke, and that didn't turn out well. So he did it again here, and he was the search (meaning there wasn't any). Family members who worked at Duke have told me they were glad to see Alleva go, and Duke didn't put up any resistance after he was offered by LSU. After the lacrosse incident, why did we even offer him?

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Joe Dean - Archer, Curley hirings (Saban hire technically and we are not giving that to a university president because all coaching hires are assigned to the AD in charge at the time.),

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Joe Dean was worse than this looks. He gets ZERO credit for Saban, who he never would have hired. That was Mark Emmert.

Dean made the decision to hire four football coaches, and every decision was horrible. You mention Archer and Hallman, but he also hired DiNardo. And before he hired DiNardo, he offered some coach from Baylor or TCU maybe. Whoever it was had a buyout dispute that ended our contract negotiations, and he stayed put, but he was fired a year or two later.

Happy Friday to you too! What a miserable post to start the day with.

You’re an idiot.

Joe Dean is the correct answer to who is the worst AD that you listed, and it is not even close. Dean was the God Ol' Boy network's candidate to wrest control of the Athletic Department after Brodhead had successfully locked them in a closet and had the overall sports programs moving in a positive direction and the Athletic Department running in the black. Everything slipped under Dean and with his cheap ways LSU fell way behind in facilities, upkeep, made cheap coaching hires and the Athletic Department was on shaky ground financially with several monetary scandals and a general lack of oversight which resulted in the issuance of several NCAA probations. There is a lot more to the AD position than hiring coaches.

As to Dean's coaching hires: All that needs to be said is Archer and Hallman back to back for football. Welcome to the depths of the darkest days of LSU football.

Dean is the definition of sucking as an AD.

Yeah, Woody is taking heat for MBB right now, deservedly so. But he's handled everything else well since he's been here. I'll admit though, I can't comment on any ADs pre-Alleva.

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Woodward is not a good AD.

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The Jimbo and Kelly contracts are going to bite both schools in the arse for a long time.

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2022 contract values

1. Nick Saban salary: $11.7 million (Alabama)

2. Kirby Smart salary: $11.25 million (Georgia)

3. Dabo Swinney salary: $10.5 million (Clemson)

4. Lincoln Riley salary (estimated): $10-plus million (USC)

5. Brian Kelly salary: $9.5 million (LSU)

6. Mel Tucker salary: $9.5 million (Michigan State)

7. Ryan Day salary: $9.5 million (Ohio State)

8. David Shaw salary: $8.925 million

9. Mario Cristobal salary: $8 million (Miami)

10. Jimbo Fisher salary: $7.5 million (Texas A&M)

11. Lane Kiffin salary: $7.25 million (Ole Miss)

12. Jim Harbaugh salary: $7.05 million (Michigan)

13. James Franklin salary: $7 million (Penn State)

14. Pat Fitzgerald salary: $5.748 million (Northwestern)

15. Chip Kelly salary: $5.6 million (UCLA)

16. Steve Sarkisian salary: $5.45 million (Texas)

There will be a lot of arse biting going on in the NCAA

Bob Broadhead and it aint close. When he was A.D. i went in the gift shop at Tiger Stadium to look around. While I was there I asked a gentleman, perhaps in his 60's, if he knew of any old FB games on disk. He said no. He said they had boxes of old film from the 20's in a store room and that Broadhead told him to put them in a dumpster. His reasoning was that if it happened before he came then they were not important.
He was an idiot.