Chavis was a Nega

I got no reason to hate him, I just don't trust yankees to have the best interests of LSU at heart. These professional administrators move from school to school and their prime directive is to make themselves look good so that they can upgrade their job. Good ones do this by hiring good coaches and respecting school traditions. There ain't enough good ones.

Everyone expects coaches to come and go, it is the nature of the business. But its best for LSU for administrators to have long-term interests.

 

He works for the Chancellor. But just like me and all unclassified employees at LSU, Alleva serves at the pleasure of the BoS. The Board of Supervisors does get way too involved in football coaching hires. It's not as bad as in the Charlie Mac days. The BOS forcing out Mac and not giving him the AD job that he wanted (and deserved) began a long, bad run for LSU football. They got their fingers burned and have been very much more low-key and back-alley in their influence and not so public about it.

 

Well, Duke was a major basketball school and I think they hoped that Alleva would bring in a basketball coach that could get LSU back into the upper tier of the SEC. Johnson was a good hire, but a bad fit for LSU (an LSU man might have realized this). Jones was a good hire and a good fit at LSU, so maybe Alleva learned something quickly.

 

Nope. They brought back Paul Dietzel, the coach who had left LSU for Army. The BoS at the time was heavy with ex-Dietzel players.