re: John Brady under appreciated per Mark Gottfried

Brady's style of play was boring, which means you have to win. This is especially true at a place like LSU, where football is first and baseball has passed basketball for second because basketball has been irrelevant for most of the last 20 years. Win or be entertaining in defeat. Watching Brady's teams on offense was like watching paint dry, even in the Big Baby years.

My biggest gripe was that almost from the beginning Brady latched on to the fact that LSU was on probation when he took the job and never failed to remind people of that for about five years. Others are allowed to point out you're on probation, but the head coach is not. The head coach is expected to put his head down, do his job and do the best he can to overcome the limitations. Nothing was ever his fault, according to him.

And if he had an iota of PR skill (otherwise known as being nice to people), most folks would have given him a pass on the struggles of the first few years. But when you get fired not two complete seasons after getting to a Final Four, you've pissed off a lot of people. If he had been a decent dude, he would have had a lot more leeway.