re: The decline is real, Geno tells it like it is- "not even the same program.."

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And that's where it stops. The great LSU run was not a "great program" run it was simply because we had the two greatest players in program history show up at the same time. When you only need 5 and 2 are GOATS it makes you forget that LSU was really not very good before the arrival or after the departure.

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This is not true^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It depends one what you consider to be "not very good"

1997-1998 - Sweet Sixteen
1999-2000 - Elite Eight
1998-1999 - Sweet Sixteen

Those years^^^^^^^^^^^^
We had Marie Ferdininand (who was a first team All American) Elaine Powell (first team All SEC), Pietra Gay, Katrina Hibbert, and a few others. The year before Augustus got here we made it to the SEC tournament championship game and the second round of the NCAA (2000-2001). We were never a national championship caliber team, but those teams would wipe the floor with what we currently have. We were a perennial top 20 team.........sometimes top 15. What we have now would barely crack the top 50.