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Good.  I have been down on him for his poor handling of the end of the Miles era.  I did not like the automatic one year extension in Miles contract for an 8-win season (they eventually took that out, because it was a bad idea), and trying to put the "Miles clause" in all the assistant coaches contracts (which Chief rightly rejected and left over it).  Bone headed ideas, poor execution.

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LSU Athletics Director Joe Alleva is expected to step down—perhaps as early as today—from the position he has held at the university for more than a decade, a high ranking source within the LSU System tells Daily Report.

LSU officials declined to comment.

Though Alleva is coming off one of LSU’s strongest seasons in years for its football, basketball, gymnastics and softball teams, among others, the embattled athletics director has been an unpopular figure among fans and, more importantly, boosters, since failing to fire football coach Les Miles in 2015 to ink a deal with Jimbo Fisher, now the head coach at Texas A&M.

More recently, Alleva drew fan ire for suspending men’s basketball coach Will Wade, who was caught on an FBI wiretap investigating a recruitment scandal. Wade was reinstated earlier this week.

While details of Alleva’s expected departure remain murky, sources say a deal is in the works to replace him with a nationally recognized leader in university athletics. That announcement is also expected in the coming days.

Alleva, 65, came to LSU in 2008 from Duke University, where he had served as athletics director. He succeeded Skip Bertman and was chosen for the position from among four finalists by then-LSU President John Lombardi and Interim Chancellor William Jenkins.

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I don't think we want Woodward.  He is a politician.  He hires people so that he can keep his hands out of the fray.  Unless that is what everyone thinks we need but he is more interested in making himself look good. 

My friend's husband worked for him.  They got along great but when the lady he hired to manage stuff started wreaking havoc, he no longer would talk to her husband.  I just pray if we get him, that he doesn't bring that woman along.  Even Jimbo hates her.  LOL

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23 minutes ago, Nutriaitch said:

 

he is EXACTLY who we want. 

From Baton Rouge

LSU grad

2-0 in football hires

learned under Emmert

has the balls to actually expand a coaching search beyond the athletic building

 

On second thought - maybe we need a politician type who can smooth things with the boosters.  There is no denying he knows how to hire coaches.  Do you think he could steal Jimbo away from the Aggies?

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With LSU on verge of losing AD Joe Alleva, Texas A&M's Scott Woodward will be one to watch for the vacancy

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Alex Miller/The Dallas Morning News 

From left: Charles Schwartz, chairman of the Texas A&M Univ. System Board of Regents, Athletic Director Scott Woodward, new Aggies basketball head coach Buzz Williams and Andrew Monaco, play-by-play radio announcer for A&M (Learfield Sports) after Williams was officially welcomed Thursday, April 4, 2019.

By Ben Baby, Staff Writer Contact Ben Babyon Twitter:@Ben_Baby

For the majority of his tenure, Texas A&M athletic director Scott Woodward has done his best to avoid the spotlight.

Since A&M hired him in 2016, he has kept a fairly low public profile, especially compared to some of his peers around the state of Texas. He's also made a couple of very popular (and expensive) coaching hires.

Now, A&M fans will be watching closely to see if he stays in College Station. According to the Baton Rouge Business ReportLSU athletic director Joe Alleva is expected to resign as early as Wednesday.

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6 minutes ago, dachsie said:

On second thought - maybe we need a politician type who can smooth things with the boosters.  There is no denying he knows how to hire coaches.  Do you think he could steal Jimbo away from the Aggies?

side note:

there is no buyout clause in Jimbo’s contract if he voluntarily leaves. 

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