You mean the way he held on to Tony Brown and Cam Robinson and Landon Collins, etc.? Pardon me if I don't believe you. We were going nowhere. It was time to move on.
Miles had been losing recruits to Bama for years. It might not be quite as bad but I don't think we would be 5 and 0
I look at the offense and wonder how good it would be with Malachi Dupre as a senior, and then guys like John Diarse, Trey Quinn, and Tyron Johnson as upperclassmen.. the skill players left Miles. Then O was hired and the OL left Orgeron. The OL just happened to be the position group Les spent every practice session with. Imagine if Allen, Dodd, etc were in there and not Charles and Ingram as true freshman. It would be different. Still, this is a galling disaster of tectonic proportions and that falls on Canada and O. They should be better. This offense is not really good at any one thing. How?
The true story of how this really went down would be riveting. One possibility is that he's been handcuffed by Jindal appointees because of budget gamesmanship optics and not allowed to do his job, in which case he should have resigned if it's clear that his boss is going to undercut his decision-making ability. The other more plausible possibility is that Alleva has no idea how to manage PR and no idea of how to negotiate high-stakes deals. Reportedly he gave up Herman without so much as a fight when Texas came knocking, with the end result that they got him for less than we were even willing to offer. The deal he gave Orgeron practically cements this scenario.
