I loved having LE as our coach. Dude just breeds toughness. He definitely had plenty of flaws though, even outside of his alcohol issues. He didn't like recruiting much and let his assistants do a lot of it. When we should have been capitalizing on those great seasons, his main assistants left for HC jobs and we didn't make hay like we should have. Also, after some success, he didn't feel like he needed to answer to the AD. Pete Taylor was his buffer. When Pete died and LE got in trouble, it gave VandeVelde the perfect excuse to fire him. BVDV was not going to go out of his way to save LE, even though he could have.
I hope that Prohm can get LE back to one of their reunions. Maybe the 20 year anniversary of the 99-00 team next summer (or would that be THIS summer?).