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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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Posted by WildTchoupitoulas

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Posted on 11/4/22 at 4:13 pm to DJFord

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

I've heard it all before, but my point was, when it came to bringing the muckety-mucks back on board after Broadhead, it was Dean, not Saban. And while Dean was tight, he did what had to be done to turn around the finances. As I pointed out, it was Emmert that told the BOS that they had to spend money to make money, not Saban.

Saban mostly justified the rationale to open up the purse strings by winning big. Winning plus the facility upgrades started under Dean and continued under Skip, equals better recruiting - which leads to more winning. I don't mean to sell Saban short, I'm just saying he wasn't responsible for getting the boosters and admin to start investing in the facilities. That had already begun.

And say what you will about Dean, his being terrible, tight or drunk (Oh my!), the LSU athletic department came a LONG way under him - and I don't think it was all in spite of him.

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