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re: SI.com story on Dale Brown & Arvydas Sabonis
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:31 am to jayrays
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:31 am to jayrays
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i thought that was a Dan Patrick thing? Regardless i thought the same thing when i saw Arydas Sabonis
not gonna lie, i thought it was patrick too but my memory sucks.
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Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:51 am to TDTGodfather
Great article. Stick with it to the end.
I know there are some people out there who don't like Dale Brown, but I love him and he's a hero to me. When I was growing up, I watched him and his LSU teams and I learned to dream big and believe. What a great thing for a kid to learn from a coach.
I know there are some people out there who don't like Dale Brown, but I love him and he's a hero to me. When I was growing up, I watched him and his LSU teams and I learned to dream big and believe. What a great thing for a kid to learn from a coach.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:52 am to Bowe Knows
Dale Brown certainly pushed the limits of what was "legal" under the NCAA bylaws. However he did it not because he was a slimeball, but because in an era before their was talk about whether or not college athletes deserved to get paid, he truly believed that the NCAA was an oppressive institution. Sure there were some NCAAT disappointments, but it truly is remarkable that he was able to get so many great players, from so many diverse backgrounds, to come to a school that had very little basketball prestige prior to his arrival. LSU's two best players prior to Brown's arrival had connections to LSU that made them natural "fits". Petit was from BR, and Maravich's father was the HC. Brown got players from Louisiana, overseas, and inner-city ghettos in NYC, LA, and Chicago, etc. Considering where he was and what he did, he might be the best recruiter and motivator in the history of SEC sports.
This post was edited on 10/24/14 at 9:53 am
Posted on 10/24/14 at 10:03 am to Bowe Knows
Coach Dale Brown was Tony Robbins of college sports. He truly loved the young men that played for him.
Shaquille O'Neil thinks of Dale as a father. I think most of us in abusive homes did too. Dale gave people hope and belief in the future and all things possible. He had passion and determination. He was the underdog many times and a man who did not know his biological father. He grew up poor and made something worthwhile of his life while being generous to others. He is a man after God's own heart .
Don't ever give up in life because God doesn't make any junk.
Shaquille O'Neil thinks of Dale as a father. I think most of us in abusive homes did too. Dale gave people hope and belief in the future and all things possible. He had passion and determination. He was the underdog many times and a man who did not know his biological father. He grew up poor and made something worthwhile of his life while being generous to others. He is a man after God's own heart .
Don't ever give up in life because God doesn't make any junk.
This post was edited on 10/24/14 at 10:04 am
Posted on 10/24/14 at 10:39 am to Bowe Knows
Dale told me the whole story one night... There is sooooo much more to this than what is in the story. My mouth was hanging open at the determination of this man. He blows my mind even today.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 10:49 am to TopsInAmericaTim
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Dale told me the whole story one night... There is sooooo much more to this than what is in the story. My mouth was hanging open at the determination of this man. He blows my mind even today.
how many other young people did he help that we'll never know about?
the Russian story has movie written all over it
Posted on 10/24/14 at 11:25 am to vl100butch
I have no problems with Daddy Dale in the big picture. But I do hold the collapse of his program against him, as he let everything he had worked so hard for fall apart. But I still laugh when I read about him calling out the NCAA, at one point calling them Nazis. He cheated as much as any other big time program, so he should have just kept him mouth shut. I knew John Williams' money man in Lafayette & Williams was not the only big name recruit he was paying off. The owner of Lafayette's biggest Ford dealership was also in Dale's loop, and many got either a fake job or car. Dale's assistant coach, Abernathy, recruiting Chris Jackson, had a briefcase full of cash stolen from him in Miss.Sure, that was expense money he had yet to put in the bank. As a person, I admire him greatly. As a basketball coach, not near as much tho he was good for the program overall.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 11:40 am to Bowe Knows
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Dale wasn't that great at X's and O's, but he could recruit! Never heard this story before.
No one could be so wrong about Brown's coaching abilities as you are with that statement. Dale invented defensive coaching schemes that are in use today by Duke, UK, UCLA, etc. His recruiting wasn't always Shaq, CJ but little known players who he was able to get more out of than a 1973 Buick in the year 2014 than just about anyone else in the business at the time.
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