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Editorial: Amid the SEC’s AD poaching war, Greg Byrne’s lasting legacy can be built in Tuscaloosa

To get you briefly caught up to speed. Yesterday, another shot was fired in the growing LSU-Texas A&M border war. The Aggies reportedly lost Athletic Director Scott Woodward to the Tigers, replacing the hated Joe Alleva. Woodward, a Baton Rouge native and LSU alum, made two huge splash hires over the last 18 months in College Station. He brought over Buzz Williams and Jimbo Fisher to reinvigorate underperforming basketball and football programs (though we can debate the market-busting wisdom of that latter contract). In all else, Woodward stayed the course and enjoyed the stability that A&M’s former AD bought him.