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re: What is your evaluation of Alleva?
Posted on 12/1/09 at 9:13 am to andouille
Posted on 12/1/09 at 9:13 am to andouille
Thus far I like him, seemed to get the idea of what's good and what isn't good as far as money-getting plans.
Trent Johnson hire was good. Got us out of the Tulane series, good.
He has the mindset that he ignores the irrationality of fans and focuses on evaluation at the end of each season for each coach.
Has done nothing thus far to make us look bad.
Self-reported the potential violation issue, that's good news, makes us look better.
I think he was a good hire, it's too early to say for certain, because the decisions he's had to make have been minimum.
Trent Johnson hire was good. Got us out of the Tulane series, good.
He has the mindset that he ignores the irrationality of fans and focuses on evaluation at the end of each season for each coach.
Has done nothing thus far to make us look bad.
Self-reported the potential violation issue, that's good news, makes us look better.
I think he was a good hire, it's too early to say for certain, because the decisions he's had to make have been minimum.
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Posted on 12/1/09 at 9:15 am to andouille
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This is a football school, we need a football AD.
As long as the A.D understands dollars and cents, this doesn't matter. Alleva knows football is LSU's cash cow and that it's the KING of LSU athletics. There are people within the administration like Verge that are "football" guys.
This post was edited on 12/1/09 at 9:17 am
Posted on 12/1/09 at 9:53 am to KappaSwig
I am in total agreement in what you said about his investigation of J. Mc. and one of the football players. Also, Mal Moore is the pits of a man when it comes to real moral fiber. He'd fit in well with our current people running our congress in this country!
J.A. seems to be a man that is of utmost integrity; I just hope he doesn't fall into the basketball important over football mentality, like Joe Dean did? Like andouille said, LSU is a football school. I like all LSU sports and I know most of you understand that filling Tiger Stadium on Saturdays is where the premium revenue comes from. That revenue makes the rest of the Atheletic Dept. work and if he has the brains to come from Duke to LSU, one would think that he understands this?
And as someone else stated, don't look for Aleva alone to find us a new football coach when that time comes, but he should handle this L.M. contract situation with best real brain trust that he can depend on for help and guidance. IMHO, there should be a since of urgency to get LSU away from a potentially devasting and continually deterioting situation with the mass of Tiger Faithtful that fills those 92.500 seats. We all knoe that times have changed and most of the fans today aren't like the people that were in the stands at T.S. from the late 50's to through the 80's.
It is just my opinion but, with the talent on this past season's LSU football team; Bobbby Johnson at Vandy and Rich Brooks at Kentucky would have had this current LSU football team squad better prepared, against the supposedly top tier teams like the gators, and bama game day. T think they are hard nose, good clean football coaches in our conference who would have played the better players. We all know what was the outcome of that OM loss an d the culprit of the evidence of what happened there. Then, what a mockery the National Media made of it. I don't think the two coaches who's teams aren't going bowling for sure, would have had this LSU football team in those situations. They would have been better prepared! And, I believe that with the talent level existing currently on this teamand with , those beforementioned coaches who have to recruit nation wide, would have been superior against those teams playing in the SECCG than our current one, except for maybe the "the Chief and or special teams play."
So J.A. wake up and realize what makes LSU sports work financially for the most part; it is your job, your are the boss. You took this job, as an educated man who wanted to come and be an A.D. at a Football School like LSU; don't let 'er rip, get it done?
J.A. seems to be a man that is of utmost integrity; I just hope he doesn't fall into the basketball important over football mentality, like Joe Dean did? Like andouille said, LSU is a football school. I like all LSU sports and I know most of you understand that filling Tiger Stadium on Saturdays is where the premium revenue comes from. That revenue makes the rest of the Atheletic Dept. work and if he has the brains to come from Duke to LSU, one would think that he understands this?
And as someone else stated, don't look for Aleva alone to find us a new football coach when that time comes, but he should handle this L.M. contract situation with best real brain trust that he can depend on for help and guidance. IMHO, there should be a since of urgency to get LSU away from a potentially devasting and continually deterioting situation with the mass of Tiger Faithtful that fills those 92.500 seats. We all knoe that times have changed and most of the fans today aren't like the people that were in the stands at T.S. from the late 50's to through the 80's.
It is just my opinion but, with the talent on this past season's LSU football team; Bobbby Johnson at Vandy and Rich Brooks at Kentucky would have had this current LSU football team squad better prepared, against the supposedly top tier teams like the gators, and bama game day. T think they are hard nose, good clean football coaches in our conference who would have played the better players. We all know what was the outcome of that OM loss an d the culprit of the evidence of what happened there. Then, what a mockery the National Media made of it. I don't think the two coaches who's teams aren't going bowling for sure, would have had this LSU football team in those situations. They would have been better prepared! And, I believe that with the talent level existing currently on this teamand with , those beforementioned coaches who have to recruit nation wide, would have been superior against those teams playing in the SECCG than our current one, except for maybe the "the Chief and or special teams play."
So J.A. wake up and realize what makes LSU sports work financially for the most part; it is your job, your are the boss. You took this job, as an educated man who wanted to come and be an A.D. at a Football School like LSU; don't let 'er rip, get it done?
Posted on 12/1/09 at 10:22 am to lsudiva2010
The more I think about how he's handled this McCarthy situation, the more impressed I am.
1. To have absolutely NO leaks until now is just astonishing. He basically has broken the story & is therefore in control of it.
2. He leaks it during one of the biggest NFL games this season, when all the Louisiana, national (ESPN)& some SEC, media were going to be all over the Saints-Pats game. Brilliant. Again, he's in control of the story & the media. This is so different from the Bama fiascos the last few years.
All in all, based on the way its been handled so far, I'm optimistic the problem has been handled & this will end up being a non-story. Its been known for some time that McCarthy probably wasn't going to return because he wasn't given a raise when everyone else was.
1. To have absolutely NO leaks until now is just astonishing. He basically has broken the story & is therefore in control of it.
2. He leaks it during one of the biggest NFL games this season, when all the Louisiana, national (ESPN)& some SEC, media were going to be all over the Saints-Pats game. Brilliant. Again, he's in control of the story & the media. This is so different from the Bama fiascos the last few years.
All in all, based on the way its been handled so far, I'm optimistic the problem has been handled & this will end up being a non-story. Its been known for some time that McCarthy probably wasn't going to return because he wasn't given a raise when everyone else was.
Posted on 12/1/09 at 10:35 am to jesterJ
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and if he has the brains to come from Duke to LSU, one would think that he understands this?
This is one thing I dont understand.. Why does so many people think this guy is incredibly intelligent because he worked at Duke? He didnt get an education there he graduated from Lehigh University not Duke.
Posted on 12/1/09 at 10:40 am to Catman88
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Why does so many people think this guy is incredibly intelligent because he worked at Duke?
Smart people don't like stupid people being their captain. Most people want to surrond themselves with people who are as smart or smarter than they are.
Posted on 12/1/09 at 10:45 am to SS4LSU
Top 10 Director's Cups - This is where this program will remain as AD- still a little greedy as other ADs were in the past
Posted on 12/1/09 at 11:08 am to Catman88
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Why does so many people
And this qualifies you to opine on the intelligence of others?
I don't think people assume or conclude anything about his intelligence based on Duke. What I conclude from his being at Duke, especially during the mass lynching that was the Duke Lacrosse scandal, is that he is very capable. I love LSU & LSU people, but I always laugh when people say he moved "up" by coming to LSU from Duke because Duke is "just" a basketball school. I think he is a fantastic, quality hire who's stock is only going to go up the more he's here. I think some of the grumbling about him is based on some deep-seated fear of "outsiders" coming in. Some LSU people never accept them, despite the fact that the people they would have hired would have driven this program off a steep cliff (Doug Moreau, cough cough).
Posted on 12/1/09 at 11:13 am to windriver
He's a finance guy and is all about the numbers. That's a good thing. Also, department folks that matter like him and he's must better suited than Bertman regarding a business perspective.
Posted on 12/1/09 at 11:38 am to KappaSwig
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3. We all know, as Joe Dean once said, that the mark of a good LSU AD is 1 hire: the football coach.
I wonder why 'ol Joe never took this more seriously. It is no coincidence to me that he was battling the bottle the hardest right around the time Curley was hired.
Posted on 12/1/09 at 11:44 am to Catman88
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and if he has the brains to come from Duke to LSU, one would think that he understands this? This is one thing I dont understand.. Why does so many people think this guy is incredibly intelligent because he worked at Duke? He didnt get an education there he graduated from Lehigh University not Duke
So Catman88 did you read the last paragraph?
So J.A. wake up and realize what makes LSU sports work financially for the most part; it is your job, your are the boss. You took this job, as an educated man who wanted to come and be an A.D. at a Football School like LSU; don
Posted on 12/1/09 at 11:55 am to Skillet
I am not a big fan. I still find the way that he threw those Duke Lacrosse players under the bus to be reprehensible.
I think he is a PC bureaucrat... I wish We Had gotten Radovich for GA Tech back..
But that is just my opinion.
I think he is a PC bureaucrat... I wish We Had gotten Radovich for GA Tech back..
But that is just my opinion.
Posted on 12/1/09 at 12:11 pm to KappaSwig
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And this qualifies you to opine on the intelligence of others?
Yes I always strive to write each and every sentence created and edited over in seconds correct..
But if it matters a degree from LSU and work on a PhD from a school that annually ranks higher than Duke in all the stupid publications should qualify for something.. But of course who are you judging my intelligence by a sentence on the interweb. What a winner you are.. Now have a cookie.
Posted on 12/1/09 at 12:14 pm to Catman88
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But if it matters a degree from LSU and work on a PhD from a school that annually ranks higher than Duke in all the stupid publications should qualify for something..
Posted on 12/1/09 at 12:16 pm to KappaSwig
Feel free to point out where I ever gave an opinion of anyone's intelligence as well. I do believe I stated that people on the rant were making an assumption on intelligence, based upon the school where the man worked being of high academic acclaim.
This post was edited on 12/1/09 at 12:17 pm
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