re: #8 LSU at #23 Arkansas Gym Meet Thread/ LSU falls to Arkansas

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H. Clark elevated the program, since his arrival.

He did the recruiting and coaching while that Breaux Cheerleader, bright outfits, pretended to be a grand dame of gymnastics. Breaux languished in mediocrity for 38+ years then Coach Clark did all the heavy lifting. LSU won NOTHING until he arrived! FACT!!!

“The Dale Brown of Gymnastics”had to have a Rick Huckabee and Tex Winter to prop her up. If I am not mistaken, like Brown she is still in the background.

Clark is an outstanding gymnastic coach. I think he deserves support and more…

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Its entirely possible DD/Jay in the HC to associate HC role was a perfect pair that complimented each others weak spots quite well. Not everyone is cut out to be a HC, some thrive in the assistant role. But I do think Jay handicapped himself with having an assistant with virtually zero coaching experience managing beam. A big responsibility of being a HC is having the supporting casts that make up for what you lack.

I hope Jay turns it around but this is entirely very similar to how things were at Georgia when he took over after their legendary coach retired.


For the record, if DD were the HC right now. She would be getting scolded if this was happening. This isnt specific to Jay (who I do like very much)