re: 5 reasons LSU didnt make it to the big dance

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It's real easy for you to assume all of the best case scenarios regarding Brady would have played out.

Considering his feast or famine track record, more famine than feast, it is way more likely that the worst case scenarios would have played out.

Brandon Mitchell? Really? You're trying to give Brady some credit for recruiting a guy that is not even playing college basketball?

Morgan? Really? You want to bash Trent Johnson for his recruits lack of production, but you want to look into your crystal ball and predict that maybe the biggest bust in college basketball recruiting over the past 5 years would have somehow been a solid player had he been under Brady's tutelage?

Your complete lack of basketball knowledge outside of the Brady regime is astounding. I have given Brady many props for taking over the situation he did and giving LSU some success. I have never seen you chastise him one iota for the failures that he had

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I am not claiming everything would have turned out positive under Brady. One does not know that regarding any coach’s recruits. Sometimes a player will respond differently to the approach of different coaches. The only point I was making is there were well regarded recruits in place and a coaching staff with an above average recruiting score to complement those players. They would have signed more players they had been working for a few years and there would have been a more complete roster. The recruits may not have included Brandon Mitchell, but if he had signed would have likely been a better player than some of the players Trent was forced to play. Again, we don’t know for sure, but he was a more highly rated prospect.

The situation LSU found itself in this year was the responsibility of Trent Johnson, who has a different recruitment philosophy. That philosophy may prove to be better than Brady’s in the long run, but remains to be seen. If sacrificing a mediocre season at best for three or four good to great ones was necessary then it was the correct move.

If you really followed the program under Brady then you would not callously label it feast or famine. There were very concrete reasons for all but one down year in 2007 and you know it. Those reasons were every bit as valid as any that are given for this season under Johnson. Even if we concede that you have more credibility on this point than I am giving you the fact remains nine other SEC programs would like to have achieved what Brady and LSU did over his 10 plus years.