re: Throwing money won't get us a coach....

I say, go completely in the opposite direction. If we're not going to be serious about our basketball program, $1.5 million is a helluva lot to spend just to say "we have a basketball coach". Give up. Hire some up and coming high school coach. Pay 'em squat. Use the money we save somewhere else in LSU athletics more deserving. We could get a pretty awesome ST coach for 1.5 mill. Hell, give the gymnastics coach a big raise. Seems like she's doing more to earn it than the basketball coach is.