Alright, there's a lot of bullshite in this thread, so let me straighten things out.

- There is no reason to give a flying frick who likes the coach. Ever. Unless his name is Hitler, I don't care how warm and fuzzy he makes former players feel.

- At LSU, if you make the Big Dance, you had a good season; if you don't make the Big Dance, you had a shitty season. It doesn't matter if you're 8-8 or 0-16--it's still a shitty season.

- It's about what the coach puts in the trophy case. John Brady got us two SEC titles and a Final Four in 11 years (Dale Brown got us four SEC titles and two Final Fours in 25 years).

- I don't give a shite who does or doesn't want to hire Brady. Nobody wants to hire Kevin Stallings, either, but somehow we almost all agree that he's a good coach. I don't know why nobody wants him, and I don't fricking care.

The Brady Years: a Retrospective:
1998: Sucked about as much as expected.
1999: Sucked about as much as expected.
2000: SEC champs, Sweet 16 despite sanctions.
2001: 2-14. Two starters out for the SEC season. LSU led in the last five minutes of six games it ended up losing; the Tigers only had seven players in the rotation for most games.
2002: 6-10. Better.
2003: 8-8. Better.
2004: 8-8. Not worse.
2005: 12-4. Showing promise.
2006: 14-2, SEC champs, Final Four. The Brady Bashers were proven wrong, though they would be in denial three years later.
2007: Sucked. Let's see if Brady can climb to the top again.
2008: Sucked. Brady gets fired at exactly the right time.

Brady Bashers, you were proven to be morons, and you'll always be morons because you can't help it. You wanted Brady fired year after year, and it's a good thing that he wasn't fired because LSU probably wouldn't have gone to the Final Four.

Most of you morons wanted dipshits like Tim Floyd, who is good at winning the fricking Sun Belt, but he has never won anywhere else (come to think of it, why does anybody in the fricking world want to hire Tim Floyd but nobody wants to hire Kevin Stallings? This bugs the shite out of me.).

Brady's job was never to be liked. It was to win. And he won more than any of you (or I) ever expected him to. You stupid asses need to quit being such women and viewing this as a soap opera and remember that this is a fricking sport. It's the win/loss column and the trophy case that matters, not whether or not the coach has a fricking smile on his face.

And of course he distanced himself from former players. Remember when he was hired? Remember what was going on at the time? Former players needed to stay away from the program for a while; things got ugly because of nothing Brady did. In all honesty, Brady had little choice in that.