re: Most embarrassing defeat in LSU basketball since>

Trent Johnson is a very good coach. Nobody, and I mean nobody, predicted LSU would win the SEC last year, and LSU blasted its way to a title. Marcus Thornton was a good college basketball player. After one year with Johnson, he became a great college player, and he appears to be a solid NBA player, and the only apparent reason for that, other than hard work by Thornton, is Trent Johnson.

Xavier is an outstanding basketball program and has been competitive for many years. LSU has a very young team (only Mitchell and Spencer have any real experience) and gets blown out on Xavier's home court. shite happens, but to take a shot at Johnson for what happened at Xavier is below the belt.

You can criticize Trent Johnson's recruiting I suppose, but his class of 2010 is ranked very high by all of the recruiting experts. Only time will tell how it works out.

I've been watching college basketball for over 40 years. Trent Johnson knows what he is doing, and I am confident that he can make LSU a consistent winner. If he does, I hope LSU can keep him.

I rant, but I guess that's what this board is for.