LSU was in the final four two years ago. Most coaches think that should have given him some slack. I'm not saying Brady's firing was right or wrong because I don't really care. Coaches will rally around each other because they feel the expectations have gotten out of hand. Donovan was feeling plenty of heat a few years ago because his teams never lasted long in the tourney. You will more than likely find an outstanding new coach, and maybe it will happen pretty fast. Every coach that says "no" to a job offer from LSU will give the media bullets to fire at your program for being so hard on such a "good guy" like Brady.
I don't know if you are being serious or sarcastic but "if" you do think Brady is a good guy then it depends on what the definition of good is. Is winning 58% of your basketball games including cupcakes good? I think not. I don't consider some of the actions that Brady takes good. He has no class, tact, etc, he sticks his foot in his mouth time and time again. That is one thing that ultimately turned me against him other than losing. Brady says and does things that embarass him as well as the university so since you are a Gator fan I'm sure you have no clue about this.
I could care less if he's a good guy or a bad guy. He could have been your nextdoor neighbor and you think he killed your dog for pooping on his lawn. Nobody will hear about that. They are going to say Brady got fired after taking LSU to the Final Four two years ago. You probably aren't going to hear much about 58% winning record.
Maybe the things Brady did weren't so bad if you had to be an LSU fan to hear about them. Anytime Sourdough responds to anything I post, I just don't feel the love.
That is the problem, you are a gator fan and could care less. You know, I got to thinking about your analogy of Brady and all and it reminds me a lot of Florida Gator football. You guys fired Ron Zook and then Urban Meyer won a national championship with his players. What was Ron Zook's winning percentage? You guys fired a perfectly good coach who turned Illinois football around. Like you said, you could care less, you didn't have to put up with Brady's bullcrap and his graduation of like 5 players in 11 years. In other words you have no clue what your talking about and don't care. Part of Brady's problem is that he had too many issues, they will be overlooked when you are winning but when you aren't, thats a different story. Brady did himself in, I find it ironic that the year he lost his job was probably the first that wasn't truely his fault. I think this was a problem that lingered from last years team. When was the last time a final four team returned most players and finished under .500 in their conference? In the end Brady did himself in with comments about the football team and other questionable comments and bad behavior over the years. From your point of view he is a good guy so why fire other good guys from your university such as Bama did to that one coach and so on for bad behavior? Enough said!
Slow down... He wasn't being an ass.... He was saying what the media will proclaim about LSU and Brady. For UF96NC: To sum it up: Brady couldn't keep players (visible by our games where we had only 6 scholarship players available) He lost the fans. The year of the Final Four run, the PMAC was not full once. In fact, attendance went down even after it was apparent we could win the SEC (no home SEC losses that year). He had a decent record, but what no one brings up is his SEC record: 74-93. 11 years at LSU, 5 of them in the SECW cellar: dead last.
Your problem is you are looking for an argument and I'm not. Our program took some heat after Zook was fired and now your program will too. It won't be much because it's basketball. If you want to compare Zook and Brady that's fine. Both of them are probably pretty good coaches but there are better coaches out there. Zook replaced Spurrier. Brady replaced Brown after 4 straight losing seasons and an NCAA investigation. Brady took the 2006 team to the final four. Zook has yet to win his first bowl game. Maybe Brady should go to Illinois. The thread title is "SEC coaches defend Brady". My posts were not meant to offend. I was simply trying to say that the coaches will speak up for Brady and don't be surprised if the media does as well. I never said anything derrogatory about your university's descision to fire its basketball coach.
I didn't realize his SEC record was that bad. You can bet it won't be brought up either. They'll be too busy talking about him taking over after Dale and cleaning up the program. They will say the decline in attendance is because LSU is a football school. But none of it will matter because you guys should be able to get a good coach. There's no reason why LSU can't become a contender year in and year out.
maybe an outsider like yourself can explain something that noone on this board seems to be able to---if, as you posted, there is no reason why LSU cant become a contender year in and year out, then why are there only two programs like this in the SEC? certainly LSU can be more consistent than they were under brady, but i doubt that they can contend year in and year out. although, now that i think about it, as bad as LSU is, they can resonably finish 3rd in the SECW----is that contending?
