2016: Alden Report Released by University of Louisiana Athletics

[CajunEXPRESS]

Ok, but this is what has become so damn aggravating for a fan like myself. Everyone has sources. Jay Walker has sources. MAT has sources. Basinbear has sources.

All this makes it difficult to just figure out what the heck is truly going on.

Jay was wrong period. His source was wrong. He admitted as much, but said it'd wrong to hold individuals accountable. As though SF rules by committee.

By the way it's now a total of six weeks since Robe was wrong about a two week delay. Now the second two week delay has come and gone without demo. I'm willing to give him a pass. He hopes what he's being told us true.

[cajunhawk]

Jay was wrong period. His source was wrong. He admitted as much, but said it'd wrong to hold individuals accountable. As though SF rules by committee.

By the way it's now a total of six weeks since Robe was wrong about a two week delay. Now the second two week delay has come and gone without demo. I'm willing to give him a pass. He hopes what he's being told us true.

There comes a time when you have to stop accepting what you are told and seek the truth.

[ManAboutTown]

I'm curious what is your impression for the purpose of the Alden Report?

I think saying "self-sufficiency" (I'm not saying you said this; I think we can agree this is what Jay said yesterday) as the purpose of the Report is incomplete. I think "self-sufficiency" (or getting off the state teet) is only one of the four "areas of study" the Report incorporated. These are in paragraph two of the executive summary.

Mike Adlen and group came here to accomplish a goal: get branding under control, reaffirm an identity, make money for Atheltics, position the Atheltic fundraising arm to reach national contacts, to propel this university into a place where its peers where on par with its potential.

It was also an adult and a road map.

[cajunhawk]

Ok, but this is what has become so damn aggravating for a fan like myself. Everyone has sources. Jay Walker has sources. MAT has sources. Basinbear has sources.

All this makes it difficult to just figure out what the heck is truly going on.

Look for smoke...see smoke...know that their is probably a fire in the vicinity.

[Duggie35]

No one posting here got to see it.

I bet the Russians hacked into the report and leaked the information! LOL!!!

[jumboragncajun]

There is a Personnel Review portion of the Alden Report. It was, for good reason, not made public.

So apparently the report was paid for via private funding?

[ManAboutTown]

So apparently the report was paid for via private funding?

Interesting observation..

[VObserver]

So apparently the report was paid for via private funding?

Federal privacy laws. Has nothing to do with source of funding.

[Cajun Monkee]

Mike Adlen and group came here to accomplish a goal: get branding under control, reaffirm an identity, make money for Atheltics, position the Atheltic fundraising arm to reach national contacts, to propel this university into a place where its peers where on par with its potential.

It was also an adult and a road map.

On page 60 of the PDF, the consultant listed 20 "strategic recommendations" related to a variety of issues ranging from staffing to ticket sales to developing a 5-year deferred maintenance program.

And, yes, Branding.

However, starting on page 35, there is a series of "recommendations" (on Branding) listed thru what appears to appears to have (maybe) been part of a power point. With no "strategic" attached to them.

The problem is, how do you reconcile the "strategic recommendations" with the "recommendations?

Which is why I don't think this is a strategic, implementation document. It's primary purpose, as listed in the executive summary, is as an analysis. And the recommendations (whether they or strategic or not), are just that....recommendations.

Don't take this to mean I'm trashing the document. I'm not. I think its absolutely valid. I think the "strategic recommendations" on page 60 can easily by formatted into a strategic, implementation tool outlining how each of these "strategic recommendations" is now a goal or objective (or part of a broader goal/objective) with accompanying actions to accomplish that goal.

This is just my two cents. I don't know where Louisiana is with this. If you look at the timeline for the "strategic recommendations" everything thru #14 should have been accomplished. Shucks, 8 of them were immediate.

Turbine pointed out in another thread you have to know where you've been to know where you need to go. I think the Report tells us where we've been and where we're at, and maybe even where we need to go.

I just don't think it tells us how to get there.

[Just1More]

I bet the Russians hacked into the report and leaked the information! LOL!!!

Julian Assange is MAT's source. He even told MAT that cracking the code of secrecy at UL was the hardest test yet. After discovering UL had a tremendous computer science and computer engineering program... Wikileaks sent their very best hackers into the darkest cyberspace tunnels to hack the athletic department servers. They could find nothing... literally nothing but some restaurant menus, old expense reports and pictures of Alaskan moose mating.

Julian then said that all he did was go to the Corner Bar and say "Ragin Pagin is full of faceless baffoons"... and he was given a secret handshake... and allowed to view the stack of Yuenling soaked napkins that were part of a scheme to cover up the debacle of "The Tigue Renovation Funding".

There it is... finally out in the open.