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

Dale was Dale. He was a salesman, recruited fairly well, had some very good teams that smoked a lot of good basketball teams, took 2 teams to the Final Four (one of which was a great team and another that really had no business being there), did a lot to ease race relations in Louisiana and the SEC, had teams and players that were fun to watch and filled the Assembly Center with fans, his players liked him and played hard, beat Kentucky enough to make its fans respect him. He also wasn't a very good bench coach, was kinda nuts, and probably should have hung it up before he did.

I was a sophomore at LSU when he came along and enjoyed the hell out of his being there for 20 years. Dale was an institution at LSU. Nobody knows if anybody else LSU could have hired would have been more successful than he. He and LSU had a great ride together.