re: Dale Brown gets love from the Sports Reporters

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until those last couple of years before he retired).



More like last 4 years

He basically left the program in the same shape he inherited it.

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You know, sometimes people use the term "couple" to mean more than two. You know, like "Give me a couple of minutes"..."Give me a couple of M&Ms..." and so on.

LSU won 288 games and had been to only 2 NCAA Tournaments in the 25 years before Dale came. He won 448 games and appeared in 13 NCAA Tournaments.

Let's just say he left the program with a hell of a lot more wins than he took it over with. That long stretch in between mattered. Yes, the last years sucked (Livingston blowing out his knee hurt and the Earl saga really hurt), but at least he took LSU to the NCAA tourney in one of his last five years coaching at LSU. When he took over, LSU hadn't gone in 18 years.