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SI.com story on Dale Brown & Arvydas Sabonis
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:51 pm
Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:51 pm
The Old College Try
Dale wasn't that great at X's and O's, but he could recruit! Never heard this story before.
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Brown had this idea that Sabonis would sign the scholarship papers first at the Kremlin and then at the Statue of Liberty.…[But] during a time of tense negotiations over nuclear proliferation, Reagan was unwilling to expend political capital on recruiting for LSU.
Dale wasn't that great at X's and O's, but he could recruit! Never heard this story before.
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Posted on 10/23/14 at 10:54 pm to Bowe Knows
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Dale wasn't that great at X's and O's, but he could recruit!
Plenty of so called X and O geniuses would give their left nut for the accomplishments of Dale Brown in basketball.
Posted on 10/23/14 at 11:27 pm to Bowe Knows
good read, especially the part at the end.
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She was handed a business card that read dale brown, lsu basketball. He was a coach killing time on what was looking like a wasted trip.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 6:45 am to Bowe Knows
I'd say Dale Brown was the best coach LSU ever had in any sport when considering the whole man. He was successful, a great coach, a great man, and kept things damn interesting. I still am amazed that so many people don't give him the respect he deserves.
go Dale go
go Dale go
Posted on 10/24/14 at 7:05 am to Bowe Knows
Dale Brown deserves all the praise that he gets, but I'd like to ask him if he thought the fans got their money's worth when he ran the 4 corner stall offense all those games, and how much coaching was involved in running that stupid crap.
I'd also like to ask him why he stopped recruiting his last few years only to end up selling his soul in a desperate attempt to try and make up for it.
I'd also like to ask him why he stopped recruiting his last few years only to end up selling his soul in a desperate attempt to try and make up for it.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 8:43 am to Bowe Knows
All you had to do with Dale is say, "It can't be done..." Then watch.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:25 am to Bowe Knows
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. . . Brown did not want this exchange to happen quietly.
Pretty much sums up Brown's entire personality.
I was in college when this was happening. Not all of the behind the scenes stuff was revealed at the time, but Brown made no secret of the fact he was after Sabonis. Oh, what could have been.
A great motivator and under-appreciated tactician, Dale will always be an LSU legend.
GEAUX TIGERS
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:52 am to Bowe Knows
Dale Brown certainly pushed the limits of what was "legal" under the NCAA bylaws. However he did it not because he was a slimeball, but because in an era before their was talk about whether or not college athletes deserved to get paid, he truly believed that the NCAA was an oppressive institution. Sure there were some NCAAT disappointments, but it truly is remarkable that he was able to get so many great players, from so many diverse backgrounds, to come to a school that had very little basketball prestige prior to his arrival. LSU's two best players prior to Brown's arrival had connections to LSU that made them natural "fits". Petit was from BR, and Maravich's father was the HC. Brown got players from Louisiana, overseas, and inner-city ghettos in NYC, LA, and Chicago, etc. Considering where he was and what he did, he might be the best recruiter and motivator in the history of SEC sports.
This post was edited on 10/24/14 at 9:53 am
Posted on 10/24/14 at 10:03 am to Bowe Knows
Coach Dale Brown was Tony Robbins of college sports. He truly loved the young men that played for him.
Shaquille O'Neil thinks of Dale as a father. I think most of us in abusive homes did too. Dale gave people hope and belief in the future and all things possible. He had passion and determination. He was the underdog many times and a man who did not know his biological father. He grew up poor and made something worthwhile of his life while being generous to others. He is a man after God's own heart .
Don't ever give up in life because God doesn't make any junk.
Shaquille O'Neil thinks of Dale as a father. I think most of us in abusive homes did too. Dale gave people hope and belief in the future and all things possible. He had passion and determination. He was the underdog many times and a man who did not know his biological father. He grew up poor and made something worthwhile of his life while being generous to others. He is a man after God's own heart .
Don't ever give up in life because God doesn't make any junk.
This post was edited on 10/24/14 at 10:04 am
Posted on 10/24/14 at 10:39 am to Bowe Knows
Dale told me the whole story one night... There is sooooo much more to this than what is in the story. My mouth was hanging open at the determination of this man. He blows my mind even today.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 11:40 am to Bowe Knows
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Dale wasn't that great at X's and O's, but he could recruit! Never heard this story before.
No one could be so wrong about Brown's coaching abilities as you are with that statement. Dale invented defensive coaching schemes that are in use today by Duke, UK, UCLA, etc. His recruiting wasn't always Shaq, CJ but little known players who he was able to get more out of than a 1973 Buick in the year 2014 than just about anyone else in the business at the time.
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