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You must be a relative of Joe Dean.

That guy was so tight he squeaked when he walked by.

It took Emmert to open up the pocketbook and get serious about the football budget.

I'm not denying any of that.

What I was responding to was:

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[Saban] got LSU football back on track with the LSU administration and higher-ups

I watched as Broadhead took over from Dietzel/Maddox, and then Dean from there. In that context, Broadhead blew up the relationships with the "LSU administration and higher-ups" when he tried to turn the finances around and wrest control from the boosters, then Dean came in and smoothed things over, and actually made improvements.

During Dean's tenure:
TAF was formed
Outdoor practice facility
Lawton/training/S&C
Admin bldg
East Upper

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Don't know how you could forget the big push Saban made for football facilities upgrades at LSU including a nutrition center that is nowadays taken for granted.

I'm not saying he didn't continue the push for improvements, just that he wasn't responsible for getting back on track with the higher ups as much as getting back on track with the fans.

Emmert was the man that made it all happen ca. 2000. He couldn't have done it without all the work put in by Broadhead and Dean. If I'm not mistaken, it was under Dean that the LSU AD started to actually turn a profit.

I'm not an insider, that's just my opinion after having been a student at LSU from 1983 - 1990 and watching what was going on, and then a season ticket holder starting in 2000.

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Posted on 11/4/22 at 4:00 pm to WildTchoupitoulas

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Emmert was the man that made it all happen ca. 2000. He couldn't have done it without all the work put in by Broadhead and Dean. If I'm not mistaken, it was under Dean that the LSU AD started to actually turn a profit. I'm not an insider, that's just my opinion after having been a student at LSU from 1983 - 1990 and watching what was going on, and then a season ticket holder starting in 2000.

I was a student from 1980-1989 we prolly ran into each other. I worked WPRG/KLSU and was buds with Herb Vincent.

Brodhead was an amazing AD bringing in Arnsparger, Sue Gunter and Skip (I think the track coach and a few others). Pissed me off when he got rid of wrestling and mens gymnastics (we were good in both) but he did it for Title IX and didn’t want to have to add two more womens sports.

Also the BOS back them was much like Auburn’s Regents and screwed shite up. Brodhead put an end to that until… his fight with Arnsparger. The BOS couldn’t wait to side with Arnsparger and dump Brodhead.

Irony is that Arnsparger saw first hand the shite that still was LSU politics and got the hell out of Baton Rouge.

Joe Dean was awful. Besides hiring Curley Hallman, he oversaw the implosion of LSU football under Mike Archer.

In the late 80’s some jackass NOLA naacp shite stirrer was peddling the farce about LSU being racist and how we would never have a white qb. There was absolutely no push back from Archer or Dean. We started losing blue chippers like crazy to the point where LSU was poison in the NOLA black community.

It wasn’t until Dinardo made a concerted effort to bring NOLA back in the fold and Herb Tyler that that fallacy was put to bed.

Dean was also cheap as hell and almost got us stuck with Pat Sullivan instead of Dinardo. His cheapness actually was good in that situation because he refused to buy out Sullivans contract… so he went with Dinardo… another cheap decision. Dinardo wasn’t awful but he was chosen bc he was cheap.

When Emmett came in he saw the train wreck that was Dean and took over the search and got Saban.

BTW Dean was a really bad alcoholic and one night drove his car into that canal by the LSU Ag center next to the lake.

Anyway I can’t link any of the above but that’s pretty much all inside info.

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