J'Mason Morgan, Randolph, Johnson will own the paint and there will be a lot of double-team kickouts for 3s. so you're def right. they will need to be able to shoot it to win big.
About time. Anybody think Lombardi was behind this since it is mid season because I did'nt think Skip would do it til after the season. Now let's hope we can land Anthony Grant.
I've supported Brady every year, but this year it was obvious that if was time to make a change. He has completely lost fan support and I think he was prepared and ready to leave. He has always said this was his dream job. It didn't turn out like he had hoped but I suspect he will start tomorrow with a smile and still be an LSU fan.
Did you say that when Curley and Gerry got fired? I swear, there couldn't be a worse fit at the HC position than CJB.
Re: John Brady Fired? I don't know about you, but I'm not paying to see that SOB put on a purple sweater and sit his fat azz on our bench. :lol:
thought some of ya'll might like to see a few of the things the UK bored is saying about us firing brady. I really like the fact that they ran off a coach that never had a losing season there, won a national title, sec titles, and never missed the tourny. But think we did brady wrong. Also they dont understand recruiting. http://www.wildcatnation.net/forum/showthread.php?t=36231
Re: John Brady Fired? Okay, I'll be the contrarian here: (1) Here are the last four seasons, not counting this year. -- 2003-04: 18-11, NCAA tournament -- 2004-05: 20-10, SEC West Champs, NCAA tournament -- 2005-06: 27-9, SEC Champs, NCAA Final Four -- 2006-07: 17-15 So you propose he should have been fired at the end of a season (2003-04) in year when we are headed for the NCAA tournament, and one year before we won the SEC West Championship (regular season) and made it the the NCAA tournament again. Two years before we were SEC regular season champions and went to the Final Four. Man you must be really ticked at what the football team has done the last six or seven years. And I bet baseball in the 1990's drove you ourt of you mind. (2) For the general trend of all the posts. I would rather we be in serious evaluation on this decision and waiting for the end of the season to make a call. There is no way I would have fired him before the last SEC tournament game (the Tuesday after the SEC tournament ended to allow the inner and other NCAA tournament teams to celebrate without stealing their limelight). I actually lean to letting it go one more season to see what he does with the recruits and a healthier team. (3) New Coach fantasies If we get a new coach I would look to Scot Drew at Baylor -- doing okay on the floor and great in recruiting, since tackingover under horrible circumstances (remember the player-on-player murder and coach's attempts to cover for the assailant). All of his efforts are paying off this year where Baylor's record so far is 17 wins 5 losses, with 4 of the 5 losses by 8 points or less with wins over Okla St., Tex Tech, Tex AM, Notre Dame and South Carolina. Losses include Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Washington State. I would even look to talented assistants, like the Florida recruiting coach. I always have been a little leery of the "established coach, proven winner background" standard because sometimes the transition from one environment to another doesn't work -- look at Kentucky's rough start with a "proven winner" from Tex AM. The standard also leads to expectations of snaring a Coach K from Duke, or Tim Floyd at USC, or Tom Izzo at Michigan State. We all know this board is ripe with fans with hair-trigger firing fingers -- look at the Dump Les Miles movement from mid-year t the SEC title this year. I am just a little more deliberate and looking to build coaching stability.
Re: John Brady Fired? I don't follow basketball but I get the drift that most recognize what Brady's acomplished; however, it's quickly spiraling down, players not coming, players leaving after they do come, fans despising him as a result of his lack of personable traits, he's lost his ability to effectively bring us to where we need to be. The perception is that he's damaged goods- valid or not, perception is reality with public figures when it comes to leadership. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but that's what I'm getting from the little I've read.
I love you, man, but your way of thinking is warped. You have to at least try to succeed. IF you had a kid who had say dyslexia and he had trouble in school. You tried tutor after tutor and none could give him academic success. Do you still try to find the right match, or do you just quit and say "oh, it's a lost cause," nothing we do will ever work? A lot of teams have multiple programs that succeed. The day we become a premiere athletic school like Florida and Texas is the day we get that "football school" mentality out of our minds. Have you ever been in the basketball practice facility? They'd be better playing on a concrete court at a local playground. It's horrible. Until we treat the program like a winner, they won't be winners.
