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Dale Brown gets love from the Sports Reporters
Posted on 2/24/13 at 9:01 am
Posted on 2/24/13 at 9:01 am
just 20 years late 
"the wrap-up" at the end, one of the guys uses his time to discuss Dale Brown and the NCAA using "stormtropper" tactics and Miami
"Oh look, Dale Brown was right all along. The things he said 20 years ago still ring true today"
nice- catch the replay if you can
"the wrap-up" at the end, one of the guys uses his time to discuss Dale Brown and the NCAA using "stormtropper" tactics and Miami
"Oh look, Dale Brown was right all along. The things he said 20 years ago still ring true today"
nice- catch the replay if you can
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Posted on 2/24/13 at 9:02 am to danfraz
Daddy Dale 
Posted on 2/24/13 at 9:06 am to Jim Rockford
Didn't all of that begin because the NCAA wouldn't let anyone pay for his players to go to a funeral?
Posted on 2/24/13 at 9:09 am to lsutigers1992
There was something about someone needing dental work too.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 9:12 am to Jim Rockford
And the NCAA still went after him like a witch hunt. Dale did more for the well being of athletes than any hoops coach that is coaching today.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 10:21 am to danfraz
Dale Brown - great person, great advocate for the game of basketball and for LSU, mediocre college basketball coach.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 10:41 am to 3xlsugrad
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mediocre college basketball coach
13 NCAA Tourneys
1 Sweet Sixteen
2 Elite Eights
2 Final Fours
That's not mediocre. I'm not calling him an elite NCAA coach, but he was nowhere near mediocre by any standard.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 10:45 am to Day Wisher
quote:Yet considering the talent on many of his rosters he certainly underachieved. He could win with mediocre talent but not with great talent. A great recruiter and excellent motivator.
That's not mediocre. I'm not calling him an elite NCAA coach, but he was nowhere near mediocre by any standard.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 10:57 am to 3xlsugrad
Would you rather someone that ubderachieves but brings in less talent, or a guy that always seems to overachieve with less talent. Of course everyone wants the guy that recruits great and is a great floor coach. But you gotta love Daddy Dale as an LSU fan not many football factories have a basketball followoing we do mostly due to him.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 11:03 am to 3xlsugrad
Not this BS again.....11 straight NCAA tourneys when college basketball was a hell of a lot better and tougher than it is now.
Dale's best team was 81 and they went to the Final 4. This so-called "greatest team" with Roberts, SHAQ and CJ were only together 1 year and they made the tourney.
Dale's best team was 81 and they went to the Final 4. This so-called "greatest team" with Roberts, SHAQ and CJ were only together 1 year and they made the tourney.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 11:31 am to 3xlsugrad
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Yet considering the talent on many of his rosters he certainly underachieved. He could win with mediocre talent but not with great talent. A great recruiter and excellent motivator.
I won't disagree that he underachieved, just that "mediocre" was too harsh a description of him as a coach.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 12:01 pm to 3xlsugrad
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He could win with mediocre talent but not with great talent
Yet LSU fans have been waiting for 15 years for LSU to hire someone who can come close to his success. From 1978 to 1993 he competed with the best in the country often beating them.
Do you have any idea the type of basketball budget he was given in comparison to the national elites?
Do you think he was given the financial backing the LSU football program was given?
Do you think Dale's basketball budget was anywhere close to the budget of Indiana, Kansas, UNC, UCLA and some of the other big boys on the block?
This post was edited on 2/24/13 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 2/24/13 at 12:03 pm to lsutigers1992
It seemed to bother the NCAA employees of that period that Dale referred to them as "Gestapo Bastards."
Posted on 2/24/13 at 12:06 pm to LSU92
Love or hate Dale, it was sure as hell more exciting basketball back in those days ... on and off the court.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 12:11 pm to JustSmokin
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Love or hate Dale, it was sure as hell more exciting basketball back in those days ... on and off the court.
Damn right. The people on the national scene actually gave a crap about LSU basketball. Dale loved rocking the establishment.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 12:34 pm to LSU92
To understand relevancy, look at Dale's recruiting. He got players from NYC (Ice Reynolds, Bernard Woodside), L.A. (John Williams), Chicago (Jamie Brandon), Miami (Ricky Blanton), and South Carolina ( Stanley Roberts). He also got to Shaquille while he was living in Germany.
Compare that to Brady. He got to the Final Four because an NBA team grew up in his backyard.
Compare that to Brady. He got to the Final Four because an NBA team grew up in his backyard.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 12:48 pm to 3xlsugrad
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Dale Brown - great person, great advocate for the game of basketball and for LSU, mediocre college basketball coach.
He is the only SEC coach to have ever appeared in 15 straight national tournaments and only 11 coaches in NCAA history have made more consecutive NCAA appearances.
That ain't mediocre. His last couple of years were mediocre and he had some early tournament exits with talented teams (though usually the teams LSU lost to also had some serious talent).
He basically took a turd of a basketball program and turned it into a diamond (or something shiny resembling a diamond until those last couple of years before he retired).
Posted on 2/24/13 at 12:49 pm to lsutigers1992
He also pulled Geert from the Neitherlands and Vargas from the Dominican Rep. Should have been able to keep Tito Horford. He almost got Arvydas Sabonis out of USSR.
I'm glad CJJ is opening up the international pipeline from Austrailia.
I'm glad CJJ is opening up the international pipeline from Austrailia.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 12:54 pm to Big EZ Tiger
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until those last couple of years before he retired).
More like last 4 years
He basically left the program in the same shape he inherited it.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 12:58 pm to c on z
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More like last 4 years
He basically left the program in the same shape he inherited it.
No doubt he stayed too long. However, the Livingston injury made it worse than it should have been.
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