re: Dale Brown taking shots at Will Wade

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fricking deluded and retarded. Wade has done AS MUCH in 4 years as Dale did in 20.

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Well that is just not true. Dale won the SEC 3 times and brought LSU to two Final Fours and two Elite Eight appearances. He's still the best basketball coach in LSU history and even petty remarks don't change that fact. That said, Wade is on a faster trajectory than Brown. The first 6 years of Brown's tenure LSU was a losing to mediocre program. It wasn't until the 78-79 season that the program started to ascend quickly and they spent the entirety of the 80's and early 90's being a national contender.

But to laud guys who "do it the right way" implying that the current HC of LSU...and others don't is RIDICULOUS. Brown was constantly at odds with the NCAA because he felt the (mostly) middle to lower class kids he brought to LSU should get some sort of financial help outside of just a scholarship. And while he was a tremendous recruiter and motivator let's be honest, he had kids coming from Los Angeles, NYC, Chicago, etc to LSU at a time when recruiting was very much the wild west in terms of "improper benefits". That's still how "business" is done today. It's just much more organized (which is the sole reason AAU basketball exists). They weren't leaving the rough streets of those big cities to come to BR solely because they liked the coach and city.

I hope Dale didn't move to a glass house