ok.
so 2 years ago a local baton rouge radio sports show (pretty popular show lots of listeners in the area) started having a weekly regular guest on their show. a Louisiana guy that was an unemployed football coach looking for work. Coach O. he's got a reputation as a pretty good DL coach and a great recruiter.
coach O becomes a popular guest and before long the hosts start pimping the coach to be on the staff at LSU. He's a larger than life character and his resume as a position coach is pretty good.
coach gets an offer to be the DLine coach at LSU. toward the tail end of his first season on staff, the Miles debacle happens. that local radio show all but begs to keep Miles and give him another chance.
fast forward to the next season. Miles seat is quite warm. same radio show that begged to keep him is now calling for his head. they even suggest O as the interim.
Miles gets [Mark May]canned and O gets the interim gig. the first move O announces as the interim guy is to name one of those radio hosts as his "Special assistant to the head coach"
radio show now becomes non-stop ed orgeron campaign propaganda. talks about how great of a person he is, plays up the hometown guy angle ad nauseum, says he's completely changed from his Ole Miss days. Even after two losses that looked eerily Miles like to those in the stadium.
season ends, our AD is stupid, hires O.
tells media how much better O is now and he came into the interview with a binder and detailed plans for the future. How he would get the alumni involved, the great staff he would put together, etc. Alleva was "blown away" by the presentation of this changed man and the endorsement he got from Pete Carrol was a big help too.
however, had Alleva bother to do any research at all, he would see that this exact presentation was what landed him the Ole Piss gig.
(from the book Meat Market by Bruce Feldman written in '07)
it's almost word for fucking word how he got it this go round. right down to the phone call from Carroll.
changed man my ass.
our spineless retard of an AD fell for this [Mark May] like the ignorant dip[Mark May] we all figured he was.