re: Basketball: NCAA Tournament prospects

It will be the NIT this and maybe the best we can hope for the next several years. We will be inconsistent for the rest of the season. We are certainly not on an upward trajectory. Vanderbilt and certainly Kentucky are nowhere the teams we thought they would be, but good wins. Got some national attention and lost to Florida. I’m afraid that our Arkansas win may be the end of a “fast” start in the conference.

My major concern is something that really disappoints me because I wanted Johnny Jones to be LSU's greatest coach ever. He’s total LSU and deserves to lead us to a NC. The problem: he played for Dale Brown, he coached for Dale Brown, had a brief and successful stay at the University of North Texas of the Sunbelt Conference.

Brown, as Jones, was/is a great recruiter and motivator. Brown won with great assistant coaches, he didn’t know the X & Os of basketball. Jones is a Brown disciple, both great guys, but not great basketball coaches. Get use to the NIT as long as Johnny is in charge. I hope so much that I’m wrong and will eat a slop jar full of crow’s waste if I am. But I’m not. Dang.

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Get use to the NIT as long as Johnny is in charge. I hope so much that I’m wrong and will eat a slop jar full of crow’s waste if I am.

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Brown, as Jones, was/is a great recruiter and motivator.

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Not sure of Jones as a motivator. In fact I'd say it could be his weakest trait. I do think he is better X and O than Brown but Brown hired a lot of great assistants and delegated to them. I think Johnny is more hands on. They are actually very different in almost every way imaginable from manner to personality to style of coaching.