re: Coach Jones track record

Understand your frustration with CJJ. Always referred to him a JJ on gomeangreen.com message board. Sometimes JJ players can be inconsistent. Happened at UNT and some of us were frustrated also. JJ like Rudy T. of Houston Rockets fame would let his players play sometimes what is/was inconsistently, but in doing so gave his players the opportunity to learn, mature, and play together. CJJ isn't one to try to micro manage his players on court play. This get frustrating. Players have to learn how to play together and mature on court. When LSU gets to the Dance and they will in pressure packed situation these players are going to have to play with maturity, hart and will to win. CJJ isn't going to be able to call a TO in every pressure packed situation to teach maturity and will to win. It's better his players learn how to do this during the season than the SEC tournament or at the Dance.

Don't worry to much CJJ has the uncanny ability to have his teams ready and peaking right at Sunbelt/SEC tournament time and for the Dance. Keep the faith, CJJ will have LSU ready to play come tournament time and his team will preform past your expectations. At least that's what happen for many years at UNT.

Truth is if LSU doesn't want CJJ as a fan I'd gladly have him back at UNT. Our current coach after JJ is running our program back into the ash heap!!! UNT BB has long success of absolute dismal failure, CJJ changed all that, now we're backsliding into the pit of Hell!!!

Have faith in CJJ, he won't let you or LSU down in the long run. Can't say LSU will be national champion this year, but give CJJ the time he needs and he'll make the LSU nation proud!!!!

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Don't worry to much CJJ has the uncanny ability to have his teams ready and peaking right at Sunbelt/SEC tournament time and for the Dance. Keep the faith, CJJ will have LSU ready to play come tournament time and his team will preform past your expectations. At least that's what happen for many years at UNT.

Truth is if LSU doesn't want CJJ as a fan I'd gladly have him back at UNT. Our current coach after JJ is running our program back into the ash heap!!! UNT BB has long success of absolute dismal failure, CJJ changed all that, now we're backsliding into the pit of Hell!!!

Have faith in CJJ, he won't let you or LSU down in the long run. Can't say LSU will be national champion this year, but give CJJ the time he needs and he'll make the LSU nation proud!!!!

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Thanks for your words! The biggest difference I see is that in the SEC you don't want to wait till the tournament to play your best basketball. This isn't a 1 bid conference. You want to lock up a spot in the tournament during the year. Still looking forward to him getting it together. He has brought some great players in so let's hope it all works out.

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you can't just get rid of 4 years of resume. The words consistency and winning percentage should be used in the same sentence

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Sure you can, when the difference is statistically significant.

I thought north Texas was in conference USA and not the sun belt

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Check out some of the non-conference games they were playing, I would venture to guess most of these would give Southern little competition

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UNT is a Sun Belt team, what do you expect from them?

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UNT is a Sun Belt team, what do you expect from them?

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Well let's not act like winning 50% of your games at North Texas is some huge feat, especially when your record is padded with beating these really bad teams.

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With the recruiting class we brought in combined with the existing pieces, no doubt this should be a tournament team. No excuse not to make the NCAA this year.

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That's not really how this works, either. Any time you combine new guys with guys from the old regime, so to speak, there are risks in terms of chemistry and such. And we are missing some key pieces required of a solid tourney team. I thought we'd be on the bubble/in the NIT this year. I'm definitely disappointed in our effort the last few games, but next year and the following year are "do-or-die" in my eyes. Let's let Jones get all of his guys in here before we jump ship. I think just having longer guards will do wonders for us.

ETA: And GODDAMN we are missing a Carmouche type guy this year. A coach on the court who will bring the intenisty every single night.

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Of all the Basketball posters, i respect your input the most. But with all the analysis, taking emotion completely out of it, we have some talented players on this team...McDonald All-Americans, etc. It just seems that at times they lack hustle, exhibit poor technique, take really bad shots, and the defense is just non-existent. Are these players overrated? We are losing to teams that we are far superior to talent wise. I want to give CJJ the benefit of the doubt and give him a solid 5 years but normally well coached teams improve and not digress. Am I off base?

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I had a conversation with someone recently and I asked who would you change out for someone else in our conference to make LSU better. There were a few people, but overall, I really like each individual player. However, something about the makeup of the squad, coaching, playcalling, hustle, attitude, etc is off. Looking at each piece, we shouldn't lose games to aTm on the road.

Im not sure what needs to be fixed. I don't think it's Jones, but he may need to change some of his ways because at the end of the day, no matter what the problem, it's all on the head guy.

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That's no more record padding than any other team's out of conference record. I'm not sure what he would need to do at UNT to be considered impressive.

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The same thing that every coach LSU hires should do, be undefeated at their previous school while only playing top 25 teams.