Outgoing Duke athletic director Joe Alleva has been serving two masters since he accepted the AD position at Louisiana State on April 4.

But Alleva will represent Duke when the ACC meets in Amelia Island, Fla., next week.

"It'll be interesting," said Alleva, who spoke to The News & Observer by phone Tuesday from Phoenix, where he is attending the Fiesta Bowl meetings.

"I love the ACC. I love all those people, so it will be bittersweet. It is a chance to say goodbye to good friends, though you never really say goodbye to good friends."

Officially, Alleva is on the Duke payroll through June 30; he starts at LSU on July 1.

But he said he also has been busy, more than he expected, working for LSU. He hired Trent Johnson as LSU's new men's basketball coach on April 10 and will travel to Destin, Fla., later this month for the Southeastern Conference meetings.

"I have been doing both," Alleva said. "There's more stuff to do and clean up here [at Duke]. I've also been in daily contact with LSU for any decisions that need to be made there."

Duke is in the process of searching for Alleva's replacement. Duke interim AD Chris Kennedy said the search committee meets for the first time on Thursday.

"I don't see any reason to goof around with it," Kennedy said. "I think in a couple of months they'll have someone."

One thing left on Alleva's plate at Duke will likely have a resolution when the Duke Board of Trustees meets this weekend. The board will vote on the athletics department strategic plan that began as an effort to improve Duke football.

Alleva presented it to the board in February and said nothing about it has changed since then.

"They should approve it," Alleva said. "It's a great plan. Duke should be in great shape."

Less than two months before his last day at Duke, Alleva sounded eager to take his new assignment.

"It's a great athletics department, probably one of the best in the country," Alleva said. "They have 93,000 people in the football stadium every Saturday. They've been national champions two of the last five years. It's pretty ironic that I'm going from a school where I supposedly didn't know anything about football to the best in the country."