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n 10 seasons at LSU, Brady compiled a 184–126 record, including two SEC Regular Season Titles and four NCAA tournament appearances.

May have been different if Dale wouldn't have put program in a bad position to where Brady had to take a few years to turn around. Some good years even though he was handed a turd from everyone's beloved Dale Brown.

Brady never even gets consideration for the job if LSU wasn't on probation. That was truly a situation where LSU just had to find someone who would take the job, not the current situation where non-basketball fans think that was the case with McMahon.

Dale had his shortcomings, without question. And his perceived pettiness in the last few years has been ridiculous. But it is a fact that LSU basketball was never better or more popular than the 15 year stretch between 1979 - 1993. During that time baseball was starting to come into its own, but was still largely an afterthought among LSU fans. Football was, at best, inconsistent. At worst, just flat out bad. LSU basketball WAS the big attraction on campus and in town.

Does that mean the court should have been named after him? IMO, no. But if it HAD to be named for someone, Brown built and oversaw the best period of LSU basketball in its 100+ year history.

As for the anger about the probation, that's a lot of revisionist history...or just people who weren't alive at that time to remember the college basketball landscape. Was Brown "cheating"? Of course. So was everyone else at that time (sound familiar?) Larry Brown won a national championship at Kansas...he also got Kansas put on serious probation. Banned from NCAA Tournament the year after they won the NC, in addition to other sanctions. Eddie Sutton got Kentucky put on significant probation. Florida got put on probation in the early 90's. Hell, even UCLA got in NCAA trouble right after they won the National Championship.

Brady's tenure can be described in two words "wildly inconsistent". One season he could have one of the worst teams in the SEC. The next season he would win the league, then immediately fall right back to the bottom. That was over the course of 11 years...well after the initial sanctions when he took the job ran its course.

In the end though, this is all fabricated controversy and ridiculous political grandstanding. It the President and AD had any stones at all they would simply say "the court has already been named after Brown. We aren't changing it to placate the wants of one person. If you don't like it, get over it." I doubt Kim Mulkey gives enough of a shite to get into the "controversy". And McMahon currently has men's basketball headed so quickly to apathy and irrelevance that there aren't enough fans showing up at the PMAC to care one way or the other.