So What Are Realistic Long Term Expectations for LSU Basketball?

For me, I'll use Dale Brown's example.

In his 25 years, he got LSU to the postseason 60 percent of the time. Yes, two of the fourteen years were NIT bids, but I will count them, since it was harder to make the NCAA's in the early 80's.

I'm not going to be biased and remove the first years when he was building the program or those last four losing seasons, before which he should have retired.

So my expectations for Johnny Jones or any future LSU coach? Get this team to the NCAA Tournament 60 percent of the time--a little over once every other year.

I won't tack on any other requirements for SEC championships, Final Fours, Elite Eights, etc. If we make the Dance most of the time, the rest will take care of itself.

Kentucky fired Tubby Smith because he went 9 years without making a Final Four, even though he went deep in the tourney several times. We're probably decades away from those kind of expectations.

But any future coaches should be getting us to the tourney as much as Dale Brown did, without expectations on how Dale's teams performed once they got there.

That's reasonable. And we all know Johnny Jones isn't going anywhere anytime soon. So let's see how he lives up to these expectations.