re: Question for LSU Folks: Seriously, Why Orgeron??

quote:

---

I can't speak for all LSU fans, but probably 85% of the people I know didn't want to hire Coach O. The university president fricked up the Jimbo hire with his doom and gloom pressers about how the university was broke, then Alleva (AD) decided to only target Tom Herman as the next coach. When that fell through, he made a lazy hire in basically promoting coach O. This falls squarely on the University president and the AD. Alleva has been a cancer to athletics and is somehow still the AD.

---

Good post.

I can see where it wasn't a good look for LSU when King Alexander jumped up on his soapbox every damn spring whining about finances, cutting faculty & staff, and the possibility of having no football players eligible to take the field because LSU had to cancel summer classes due to salary cuts. His posturing and using LSU athletics to leverage his way with government funding was idiotic.