Please...Make all of these comments you wish...SabanFan & martin will do their very best ostrich impersonations, but the truth is the truth...The man is a failure as LSU Men's Basketball Head Coach. Even they know it.
How do ya'll think Skip feels about this? He knows that basketball is the only major sport at LSU that is underperforming yet he hasn't done anything about it. Does he think hiring a new coach would be to risky? Not enough money to hire a top notch coach? Thinks Brady is a good coach who just hasn't been able to put it all together?
I think Skip doesn't want to pay 2 coaches right now with all the money LSU is spending on facilites right now. But maybe if he thinks a coaching change may bring in a lot more revenue next season he may make a change. I'm suessing they would have to average about another 4000 a game to pay Brady off and afford another coach at the same salary.
Yet another angle from the Pro-Brady faction...Economic impossibility... Gimme a break...If he wanted it done...We would get it done...If it needed to be spent...he would spend it... It's not a question of economics...it's a question of stability...He's gone at the end of the year...and they're not going to can him mid-season...Just too much turbulence for that... They will find a way to retain Pierre...They have to...
well, part of the reason is that baton rouge is a football town, and does not care about basketball the way some other schools do. that is why when we do a poll here on favorite sport, lots of you answer football and then point out that the other sports are relatively irrelevant. that isnt true at places like north carolina, or kentucky, or the ACC in general. the sec is a football conference.
martin, Louisiana still produces some high quality basketball players from High school, so there's not a lack of talent around here. LSU has shown that with a quality team, fans will show up & support any program. Men's basketball simply hasn't given us a reason for it to be our favorite sport, or even one of our favorites really. Yes, the SEC is a football conference, but we still have competitive basketball teams. There's no reason LSU can't have one as well.
right i think we can have a great team, ut not a perenially great one like some other programs. you are right about the talent, but i think they will probably leave like chris duhon until we care as much about basketball as some of the more basketball oriented schools. maybe we could become a basketball power, but it would take a long time and a lot of change in the community, as well as the school. plus, basketball is a little different in that smaller schools (like gonzaga) can more equally compete with superpowers because you can be a spectacular team with only 3 or so great players. so, given the randomness of how recruits pan out, it throws a bit of luck into it. wheareas with football, you can create this behemoth, with basketball, you are always only a couple injuries or poorly chosen recruits away from sucking.
Translation: We should enjoy Brady and the mediocrity he brings, because it will be so hard and take so long to change the culture of LSU sports fans... Don't try because it's hard? Ordinarily, you'd make me smile or chuckle with a well meaning but obviously thought filled while ironically thoughtless response...but that one was weak...so I'll just respond by saying this... What happened when the LSU women went to the next level? 10,000+ crowds at the PMAC are a staple these days, and they are setting attendance records...Support for the team is rampant... How long did it take for that to happen? Was not our first Final Four season just LAST YEAR? So...it takes one year for the women's team to start producing not only a winning program, but a program that wins who is heavily supported? If you build it, they will come, martin...and LSU's been ripping the boards of the men's basketball team up for years now... If your ultimate complaint is that it will be long, hard work...Then by that logic, you're contradicting your own thought that Brady shouldn't be fired in mid-season, which I tend to agree with. If it's going to be such an arduous journey to accomplish what we all want, as you insinuate it to be, then why wait a nanosecond longer? What will that accomplish, by pushing back the decision to undertake the journey itself? I mean, isn't your ultimate goal the future success of LSU Basketball? Do you not want LSU to maximize its potential for success? Or are you happy with the levels LSU attains yearly as it stands now? Please...wiggle some more... The bottom line is that if the WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM can turn out 10,000+ after one year going to the Final Four, and then a follow up season of continued excellence, the men's team can do it even more easily... The "alleged" difficulty you infer does not exist, except for in that cranium of yours...stuffed in with all the other delusions and fears of truth and substantiation we've talked about before...
i didnt say we should do anything, just some theories on why basketball isnt as good as football around here. i said that? i actually think you made that up. i have no complaint of any kind, so i didnt finish reading this paragraph. ask yourself that, you also favor not firing coaches mid-season. i wasnt even really arguing anything. you have made it clear to everyone that you do not like brady. i wasnt really even talking about that. is it possible for you discuss anything like a normal human being? also notice that instead of making up stuff that other people say, i directly address their words in the form of quotes. that makes it easier to reply to what they said, rather than what you hoped they said.
