You could say that. If being mature enough to handle LSU losses without throwing a hissy fit means I'm a fairweather fan...so be it. I would like for LSU to have basketball success, but I don't expect it because that's not my concern. Let The LSU Administration worry about that. I am just an observer. I remember well the Dale Brown post season successes. I enjoyed those teams. It didn't make me an addict craving more, however. LSU puts a team on the floor and I watch them. End of involvement. I used baseball as an example because they won several NCs. I wasn't trying to compare the relative fan bases. I take issue with your 3-1 number, however. I think it's closer to even. I can honestly say that the subject of Brady never comes up in my private conversations. I will say, however, that I am impressed with the talent Brady has assembled.
I'm just tired of people using the excuse that we were never that good anyway, so why expect anything. That's wrong and those people know it. For me, the point to which I know Brady needs to go is as a point in case, UAB, Wisconsin, Houston, anybody really. We end up always playing the other teams style and failing. If the team we're playing is really up-tempo, we play up-tempo and get blown-out. If Wisconsin wants to slow it down, they do and we lose cause we can't play that. How bout somebody play our style for once? Oh, but we really don't have a style, an identity do we? I sat there and watched the replay of the ULL game the other night and again, just like every year, I don't see the point of this offense. They dribble it around the perimeter for 15-20 seconds. Lob it inside one time to a big man who is out of position, he lobs it back out and we either turn it over, or shoot a 25 foot 3. If we can't get baskets in transition, this team is cooked. So look for 10-6 in the SEC and right on the bubble of a NCAA birth. May get one, may not be, it doesn't matter. They'll run into somebody who runs a STYLE of offense, either slow or fast, we'll fall right into, and get beat by 20. Have a nice day.
To me, this is another fallacy. Brady recruited one true NBA player......Swift. The rest were marginal at best. The NBA has changed, I know. But I look at these teams and see nothing really that special. Brady has not one time recruited a disciplined point guard who doesn't turn the ball over 20 times a night and shoot 10 3's. We haven't had a PG in 10 years. You need 1 or 2 really good players which we may have, and the rest have to be role players, who are disciplined and do not turn the ball over. We don't have that and have not had that under Brady.
LSU has always struggled with basketball. We had some killer teams but can never make it over the hump to get the NC. When LSU does win an NC in basketball, that will be one of the coolest days in the world!
In Hell also! I heard knowledgeable, wise people state that Hell would freeze over before LSU wins a basketball championship. ALTHOUGH, I believe it will happen - and we will be in 70 degree March weather. :lsup:
In the 2003-04 school year nearly all sports at LSU were competing at a national championship contender level, except on - men's basketball. I've said it before that if LSU is going to legitimately compete for a national championship in basketball that John Brady is NOT the man to lead the Tigers to the promise land. He needs to go and Skip and company need to go find the absolute best coach available even it means ponying up big money to hire a big time coach away from somewhere else. I like Bob Huggins and think he'd be great, if he can win at Cincy he should be able to at LSU
Agreed. I said years ago that John Calipari was the guy I would go after. If we can't get him away from Memphis, then something's wrong. I was laughed at then but the guy has Memphis #4 in the country. And we are ranked........oh yeah, we aren't.
I'll agree with one point from the naysayers... if you want a change, the administration better be prepared to make a big change. I.e., go out and pay top dollar for a top college coach. Huggins is not it (really look at what he's done in the tourney). Calipari, maybe. But, does anyone know what Calipari's pulling down at Memphis? I'd suspect a lot more than Brady's $600k salary in the SEC. Problem? The administration's not about to do that. The "fans" have not put their dollars in the seats to warrant it. So, you guys I think are going to see Brady ball for a while. He's doing enough to keep his teams competitive in the SEC, which for the general LSU mass is good enough--remember, he won the SEC west last year. Unfortunately, or fortunately from your perspective, also remember that the glory days of basketball were amidst somewhat mediocrity in LSU football. Now that LSU football consumes most people's minds, I don't see quite the same overall love for bball these days--to my chagrin, as well. IMO, the most realistic path to better times is we hope that Brady's young bunch can stay together for a few years, get better, begin to win back the crowds over time. At the same time, Brady needs to consistently recruit better, and keep the talent level at least as good as he'd got it now--next year he adds Dameon Mason as a legit SG threat to make up for D.Mitch, and you give another year of experience to Tas, Voogd, Rolle, etc. If Big Baby stays one more year, you've got a talented team coming back with more experience. The winning leads to better recruiting, and it snowballs. All of the Brady b*tching, I think becomes counterproductive to the program as a whole when you face the facts. LSU's not going to all of the sudden pay some coach to make LSU a "basketball" school, and Brady's record by itself is not warranting of a termination.
Seems like we had some decent basketball teams while Arnsparger was FB coach and winning on the FB field.
