re: LSU fans: Why was Joe Alleva hired as AD at LSU in 2008?

He forced the team to forfeit two games, promises that will be the extent of the punishment handed down (which I guess is one way to take a hard line against having drinking and strippers at your house?), and then turns around and forces a winning head coach to resign (who literally did nothing wrong in that whole clusterfrick) while the University President cancels the rest of the season. Not because of any evidence that ever came out to suggest there was some sort of team-wide cover up but because he caved to pressure from the media to do something to cover his own arse. In other words, he totally failed to be an advocate for the student athletes he was supposed to be looking out for when there was never any indication that anything wrong had actually happened. Also left the University and Athletic Association open to the eventual lawsuits being brought against them.