Obviously not a good idea for him to be AD, but you missed the point, "they" (as you separate people by groups) want him out so bad as coach "they" would move him up to avoid the buyout. Again, not a good idea, but you are looking at it from a different angle.
Exactly what does the AD have to know about baseball or basket bal above and beyond what a sports administration professional knows? What does Alleva know about football for example...especially SEC football? It seems to me that hiring the right assistants who know business and the other sports to run day to day operations or committees to hire coaches is what is done as standard business practice at most universities. The biggest problem I can see is having Les as a spokesman...and a good speech writer would solve that problem. Other than the monthly e-mails when does Alleva speak to anybody but Homers (Boosters). Being a spokesman is NOT extemporaneous speaking...and the assistants can even take that role. The police chief in New Orleans has several of them. Izzy, you are one of the ones that wants to get rid of Miles at all costs...Here is a hypothetical option that I presented that would obviate the need for a buyout and it seems that you want to remove him completely from the LSU picture...and I'm not sure why. Hope I'm not taking too much for granted and mis characterizing your position. Miles has LOTS of good and useful traits that could be beneficial to the athletic department. Whoever said I wasn't thinking things through is right...I couldn't even begin to even guess what the AD job description is...it's just a topic for discussion...and an idea that came to me at 5:00 am.
Yeah, but it pays less than the interest Les makes on about $25-30 million dollars in the market. If I was Les, I'd just retire.
ok, I'll play. I'm all for it if he doesn't make a single decision regarding any of our coaching changes, especially our next head football coach. I'm officially on board with this most fantastic idea.
Good post...but I wasn't trying to play games. You're one of the most respected posters on this site...When I first joined, I looked forward to you and CParso's recruiting updates...great insight. Where is CParso any way? He get married or something and his wife won't let him use the computer? You new guys probably don't appreciate the legend of IZZY...I hear he could brush up on his prediction skills though. :yelwink2:
Steve you are definitely outside the box with an usual solution to the problem. Allow me to respectfully list a issue that comes to mind. At the end of the season Les will be considered a failure or a success as a coach. There's no in between; the middle ground is becoming scorched earth. A successful end to the rest of this season is good enough that almost everyone will want him to stay HC. A failure season and he's damaged goods to enough of the fan base that he'll never be given credit for anything good that he does. I agree with Legacy, we won't be able to pick any coach we want. Remember ND and Michigan thought everyone wanted them also. Really didn't go like they expected. Things really can get worse. We should head slap Miles into getting an offensive version of Chief and move on. IMHO
It's out the box, if not off the wall...I guess. The greater point about this type of thinking is that it provokes more thought. Instead of just posting Miles sucks over and over out of frustration and emotion, it does take us out of that mode for a while... ...Giving you a frame of mind that's different or novel, from which you can view your own thinking from refreshes and renovates your viewpoints. I always appreciate art, good or bad, for that very reason. The artist creates an imaginary world that invites you to enter and provides a new platform from which you can look back from and view your life in a new perspective. Then you return to the real world a changed person in some way. I'm really surprised by the posts in this thread, I was convinced that a lot of people would post that Miles was a retard that couldn't put on a hat properly much less administer a program. And this didn't happen. I know some people are just ignoring this thread and posting invective elsewhere, but a lot are scratching their heads in a good way. I have to go back to sleep now...it's almost 2:00 am... I feel like Miles now...I didn't notice what time it is. :lol:
