LSU basketball - What about Bob Marlin

80% of HS coaches in Louisiana are better tacticians than JJ.

A realistic option might be Steve Prohm at Iowa St. Young guy (42) who's had success at Murray St and Iowa St. Strong LA ties coaching under Billy Kennedy at Centenary and Southeastern for 7 years. Asst. at Tulane for 1. Still recruits LA and his primary recruiter at ISU is a Mississippi native with connections to MS, LA

Sadly, just about any Div 1 caliber coach would be a step up from Jones. You should expect Alleva to make the most unimaginative and cheap hire possible. I'd look for a recently fired SEC head coach, a bottom tier head coach with LSU ties, or possibly an important assistant for a decent but not great team.

Probably an upgrade over JJ but no. Just...no. JJ had similar success at north Texas. It's not like Marlin is dominating his conference either

ISU is a much better basketball job than LSU.

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ISU is a much better basketball job than LSU.

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This! When we hire the coaches at better basketball schools in much more hoops passionate conferences are not going to step down to come here.

If and when we'll have to get an up and comer from the lower ranks and other than Torina who JA kinda fell arse backward into getting, he has not shown me as having the vision or wherewithal to find the right one.

Prohm makes 1.5 million at ISU, the same thing Jones makes at LSU. You're telling me LSU couldn't give Prohm a significant bump in salary? Also, ISU is only a "better" job than LSU right now because ISU has made two good coaching hires recently (Hoiberg and Prohm). Before that ISU had Greg McDermont (current Creighton HC) who couldn't win there.

LSU is only the right coaching hire away from being a good program again. Prohm is from GA. Graduated from Bama. Has several guys on his staff from the south. Coached extensivly in Louisiana. ISU is a solid program in a good conference, but it's always going to be second-fiddle to Iowa in that state. Also, I'm sure it's a lot easier to find great basketball players in LA, MS, TX, than it is in Iowa and the surrounding areas (except maybe Chicago)

LSU has money. It's in a power Conf that's begging for a program to step up and challenge UK. LSU is only a "step down" because the last two HC's haven't been worth a damn

sadly, UL is a better job. he has just as good players and you dont have to play kentucky in the sun belt. not to mention the new cajundome is one of the nicest basketball facilities in america. and he makes a good salary.
he aint going no where

So many wannabe AD's on this board. Of course very few of them can agree who our next coach should be. All of this of course before we ever fire the current one, LOL!