re: Hypocrisy of those who denigrate Dale Brown's accomplishments

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My point on Earl and Powell was that Dale was still recruiting high level talent, he id not just get lazy as some have contended. Who knows? If Earl had stayed at LSU and avoided all of the swirling mess that surrounded him his career as a featured player and Brown's last two years could have turned out differently.

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Not really IMHO. My point was he used to have enough talent to sustain significant losses. Toward the end he did not. Earl was overrated and Powell never really amounted to much either. Evaluation is part of that.

Livingston healthy may have prolonged Dale's career another year or two as a healthy Livingston would certainly have only played here a year or two. Earl staying would have done nothing IMHO, he just was not very good honestly.

Dale by his own admission had stopped recruiting hard (he says cause he thought he could coach anyone up). I can remember in that era the state championship tourney for high school in La. used to be in the Assembly center. A local radio sports show was there and they interviewed Perry Clark who was at the time the Tulane coach. He was saying he was there to see Dale, why isn't Dale here I want to talk to Dale. Making a big joke of it but I think it was telling.

I was never a Dale fan, his drama and BS always annoyed me. But I am an LSU hoops fan and I appreciate the memories his teams gave me.

But he drove the program into the ground hard at the end and left a pretty big mess.