re: #21 ranked Georgetown vs LSU resume

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Dale made 5 runs in 28 years coaching. Roughly one every 5 years. Today's head coaches would be fired well before that.

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When would you have fired him?

He made it to a Sweet 16, Elite 8, and Final Four in 3 straight years from 79-81. That gives you some freedom to have a few off years. We followed it with 2 NIT seasons, which still wouldn't have put him on the hot seat IMO after that 3 year stretch.

Then from 84-87 we rebounded. NCAA 1st round (improvement), NCAA 1st round (SEC Champs), Final Four, Elite 8.

That buys a coach a lot of time, especially when he went made the tourney for the next 6 years after that and won a conference title in 1990.

So in the 15 year stretch from 79-93:

15 straight post season appearences
13 NCAA Tourney Appearences (10 straight)
2 Final Fours
2 Elite 8's
Sweet 16
4 SEC Championships, 5 2nd place finishes

He had 4 seasons of shite after that before he left. Not sure when you could have been justified in firing him