re: Most embarrassing defeat in LSU basketball since>

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Brady left johnson with no underclassmen... This a complete rebuilding year

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Another asinine comment posted on this board. Trent Johnson inherited a cupboard that most new coaches would love to inherit. He was left an SEC championship team that was HEALTHY. He inherited an incoming top 25 player in J'mison Morgan who promptly requested his release. He inherited 2009 commitments from top 50 player PG Tommy Mason Griffin and dual sport star Brandon Mitchell, both of whom decommitted.

Trent Johnson has done an excellent job as LSU coach in many ways. At this point in time his recruiting is suspect despite the stellar group signed for the coming year. These recruits are talented and show promise for the future. None of them appear to be a premier type player and history has shown LSU's most successful seasons occurred when there was a super player leading the way. Right now his recruiting looks like Vanderbilt south.

Brady has been gone almost two years, this is Trent Johnson's program not John Brady's. Now if you want to see an empty cupboard take a look at what was left to John Brady in 1997.

It must be stated tht at this same point in his tenure Brady had signed Stromile Swift, Jabari Smith, Jermaine Williams, Collis Temple III, Brad Bridgewater, Lamont Roland, Brian Beshara, Marquis Ledoux and Willie Anderson. Trent Johnson had signed Chris Bass, Eddie Ludwig and Aaron Dotson.

Time to end the snide and snarky Brady rhetoric. Get behind Trent Johnson and hope that he can at least match Brady's ten years then compare if you must

Have to have the obligatory annual non conference holiday blowout game.(something Dale Brown started years ago against ranked and unranked teamsUNLV in 1987, Illinois in 1988, and then lesser ranked foes like Okie and Coppin St in 94, kansas, duke, unc, fresno state, washington, amongst other conference early season losses)

if we did not then lsu would continue to get by 5-10 wins against in state teams and then lsu crowds would shrink to uno-ish type crowds with that type of foolish thoughts.
john brady i hope you get fired by mid season.

signed trent johnson

One of the least talented teams in many years. Trent has a tough job ahead of him.

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Thanks, now I can explain that to him. Now my favorite game was the same guys playing Loyola Marymount.

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That was a GREAT game.

Bo Kimble and Hank Gathers, God rest his soul, put on a great performance along with our Tigers, Shaq and Jackson.

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tiger20

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Good post. I wasn't a big Brady fan but I knew when Butch Pierre left LSU, we were in for some lean recruiting years. TJ coming from the NE doesn't help either. He has to establish himself and that will take some time. But no doubt about it, like Brady or not, him and Butch recruited some talent and we were at least competitive. This team is so easy to defend and we just don't have any scoring threat outside Bo and Taz. This year is going to be a rough ride.

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I can't even remember when. This team plays no defense and gets destroyed on the boards. Sorry, very frustrating.

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The basketball team played tonight? Women or men?

Butch Pierre was going to get us into some trouble. From top to bottom, on paper at this juncture, the 2010 class is the best class we've had in ten years. Throw in Malcolm White and it's a very very good group and will be better long-term than anything we had from Brady.

Butch Pierre didn't recruit our Final Four team, big Collis did. Tiger20 is a freaking Brady sodomizer so what does he know? He knows how to take down the whole kielbasa in one bite, nothing more.

Nobody had any clue that Tyrus would become as dominant as he did in college, neither did Brady. he was basically forced into signing him by the fact that he had nobody else. It worked out well.

Simple fact of the matter is that I've worked in the department during Brady's tenure and he was a dick. Straight up. Trent, in my few occasions, has sold me.

This was nothing compared to the Purdue loss in the NCAA tournament. We had a bad day, lost on the road over 1000 miles away. We knew this would be a tough year. We knew it. And we need to stay with this team and realize that our best days for LSU basketball are ahead.

Geaux Tigers. Geaux Trent Johnson.

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Butch Pierre was going to get us into some trouble. From top to bottom, on paper at this juncture, the 2010 class is the best class we've had in ten years

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I'll attest to this and really didn't want to put it in my last post because I really don't have a links or evidence to support. From the knowledge I have was BP had become very lazy. Like I stated previously:
1) he knew everyone and was known by everyone
2) had a very fertile territory
3) he recruited for the state's only flagship university


And to harp more on Authority's point....

He recruited his God Son(that was a guarantee as he was a Tiger fan his whole life) and Temple recruited the everyone else.

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Since I've been a fan, nothing will ever top the 31 point Kentucky comeback.

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This. I was at the game and could not believe my eyes...

I'd like to atleast have a shot at the Chris Duhon's and DJ Augustin's.

I'm with you, I have no problem with out of staters.

But no reason to fly across the country to get Alex Farrer.(God Bless his soul)