We've heard all of this bs since Brady has been here, for 11 years now. This is the same ole story anytime Brady and his teams have a bad year. A couple thoughts come to mind. 1) The football team had all kinds of injuries to star players and found a way to win. 2) The problem with Brady's teams is every once in a while he has a good team, just good enough for him to keep his job. His teams are either good or terrible, there is no middle of the road. Its also hard to succeed when you have a coach who can't coach offense. There is no doubt that this team can't execute a play in the final 2 minutes of either halves and that has to be coaching. Somewhere you have to draw the line and realize that the players can't execute without some coaching or teaching from time to time. Anybody who can watch this team can see there is nothing but one on one on offense, that this team can't run an offensive play to save their skin. How many games has this team lost the last 2 years because they can't finish either half? Thats not all on the players, somewhere the coach has to take responsibility and quit blaming everything else but himself. That is Brady's problem, he blames everything but himself!
40% of the players? mason, tasmin, johnson and qthornton have all missed tons of games. oh, and the fball team did lose two games while banged up. we saw the difference a full healthy roster can make in the NC game. no, he has had several middle of the road teams did you watch the OM game. many plays were run and executed. i think there are many times when the average cbball fan (myself included) watches a game and doesnt realize they jsut saw a called play. nope. ok, he often brings up the injuries or, in the past, lack of a guard, but he also often says things are his fault. honestly, though, do you really think any head coaches of any sport really believe anything is their fault? they all say crap like "well, we screwed up [meaning the players]. i guess i didnt prepare the team". their way of acting like they are admitting fault. cjb is a solid xs and os coach. just a poor manager.
The point is that injuries are part of the game, they shouldn't be an excuse year in and year out along with their young and we have no depth. Good point but we also won quite a few games while injured players were out, we won more than we lost. We won the SECCG with our backup QB. I'm not just trying to compare this to football either, any sport. The point is that Brady has a good team or good year every once in a while just enough to keep his job. You can't argue with that. I didn't but I watched enough of the other games such as the Maui Tournament and the game against Villanova. it wasn't televised in my area btw. Maybe but an average fan realizes when you blow close games and 20 point leads that generally it isn't a good thing. How many games do you think this team will actually win this year? I know its acceptable because of the same old reasons we've heard year after year for the past 11 years since Brady has been here, when his teams don't have a good year. Ok, so injuries, transfers, youth and players leaving early for the nba don't happen to any team other than Brady's teams. Sure seems that way with some of his fits he has thrown over the years. I don't know about whether coaches believe its their fault or not. All I know is that CLM's has been able to do something in three short years that CJB hasn't been able to do in eleven years. That is rally the fan base around him. What good is he then? Maybe he should hire a manager? The bottomline line is I would like an LSU basketball coach who can be a little more consistant at winning, a coach who can help kids take better shot selection and help them along so they don't shoot so poorly year in and year out with one year every 3 years as an exception. I know I'm a bad dude here at this forum because like 3 years ago. I was a huge LSU basketball fan, but man, we really aren't any better today than we were 11 years ago minus maybe a hand full of seasons, maybe 3 tourney runs I believe. Where LSU basketball is today is just a shame. Joe Dean should have given Johnny Jones a shot like Dale Brown wanted. He is a basketball coach and an LSU man, he couldn't have done any worse. I really don't want to get in a long debate, I said enough in this forum years ago, I'm not going to waste any more of my time with debates. If you like Brady and years like this year and last you win. To each his own opinion!
So this thread went right where I thought. There are umpteen threads on coaching. Can't we just once discuss a game and not coaching?
