re: Brady apologists...

Wow!...where do I begin...John Brady is a great fit for Samford or Arkansas State, but not LSU. He was in over his head from day one....he won a few a games and made one good run in the tournament, but he never figured out how to be the basketball coach for the flagship program in Louisiana. You can be an a-hole if you are Nick Saban and can build a quality program that produces, but when you are John Brady and only have a winning team every 3-4 years you are going to lose fans and support.
Brady had Butch Pierre bring in his talent and he ran off a good bit of it to the point that he only had 7 players contributing every year. And lets not forget how many really good high school players left Louisiana over the year to go elsewhere.
The year he made the run to the Final Four, he had a team full of kids that developed a great chemistry over years of playing together in AAU. Lets also not forget that Brady didn’t even have future NBA lottery pick Tyrus Thomas in the starting lineup at the beginning of that year.
Beyond the Xs and O’s the guy had the personality and temperament of a trailer park deadbeat. He berated the players and sulked on the sidelines like a whinny 13 year old bitch. He never represented LSU in way that made me proud. You can blame Dale Brown for probation and say many things about him, but he was first class.
Trent Johnson represents LSU with class and has a great demeanor. He actually coaches the kids during the game instead of screaming in their faces.
I guess I can thank Brady for helping bring the program through probation and the post-probation period, but he stayed way too long and now we have the right guy to build a program around.

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Brandon Mitchell a 3 star SG

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this is the same guy who just signed a football LOI with Arkansas. I don't think that really counts as Johnson losing him. I would be willing to bet that if he had been offered by LSU for football and basketball, he would be in Baton Rouge in the fall.

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I remember when Clark Kellogg said that there wasn't a player in the nation like Tyrus Thomas during that UCONN game, Brady's response was that he didn't think Clark Kellogg has seen all the players in the nation. He didn't respond with "Tyrus is something else" or "He's a heck of an athlete people should be excited to watch", he pretty much said "if you look hard enough I'm sure you'll find another guy like him

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Clark Kellogg did not have to coach Tyrus, Brady did. You ever stop to think maybe Brady was trying to avoid Tyrus getting a an inflated ego over what a national sportscaster said about him and losing his focus.

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As usual, you idiots still don't get it. Your so called Bashers never had the power to fire Brady; only the administration has that power. The only power the Bashers had over the past 5 or 6 years was to Bash Brady and scare off potential talent from the program--job well done.

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Whatever. You are the clueless geek who still thinks Greg Monroe was even really considering LSU. Guess what...G'town or Duke or LSU? Gee, tough one.

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The Bashers didn't care what effect they had on the recruiting program during Brady's tenure, and they didn't care if we ever won championships. Actually, they were happy when we lost.

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John Brady is a big boy. Tigerdroppings.com had ZERO effect on recruits. John Brady had an effect on recruits. He did well, reelin' a lot of 'em in; he just couldn't keep in in the boat. How many times does this go through your empty head and float into space?

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If Brady was coaching this season, and he had gotten the team to over achieve this year, as he had many times in the past with a lot younger and less experienced players than we have this year, the Bashers would still be saying he needs to win in the first round of the NCAA or be fired.

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His only 3 good teams:

2000 - A senior, a junior, a lotto pick sophomore, a senior, and a freshman. Hmm...sounds experienced to me.

2005 - A lotto pick junior, a freshman, a 2 year starter a sophomore pg, a junior, and a senior...sounds experienced to me.

2006 - Senior, Lotto pick freshman, junior, freshman, freshman...here's your only beef and we all know that mattered NOT, as that was the best frontline in college basketball.

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Thank god you idots are not saying that about Johnson. We have met the enemy and they are us.

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Keep smokin the clorox or whatever it is that gets you so high.





Brady had limited (at best) public relations skills. But he was (and is) hated because he couldn't win games, not because he was an arse.


Says you. Your opinion is not necessarily mine. He couldn't win (a) because he was (b). Losing games can happen to anyone. It's how you lose them and why that matters. Dale Brown loses 30 games with the 1989 team and it wouldn't have ben a shocker. Instead he won 20.

No injuries, a year of maturity (Spencer, etc.), the SEC is HORRIBLE. What's so hard to understand. NEGATIGERS trashed Spencer last year. A year of maturity makes a big difference. NEGATIGERS always said that should not matter under Brady. Spencer = Bass and Warren in his first year. Another NEGATIGER theory up in

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Losing games can happen to anyone. It's how you lose them and why that matters.

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Yes, that is the point. Not whether you're a stand up guy, have good people skills, laugh and joke with the cameras, etc.

In thirty-plus years of my following LSU sports, there has never -- never -- been a coach that won consistently at LSU that wasn't well liked by their fan base. Likewise, there has never -- never -- been a coach that consistently lost at LSU that was well liked by their fan base. And there have been at least three times that I can think of where the same coach was well liked at a point in his tenure at LSU when he was winning, and then was despised at a point in his tenure when he was losing (Archer, Brown and DiNardo).

One successful coach might be more beloved than another because of superior "people skills", or one failing coach might be more reviled than another failing coach because of worse "people skills," but no failing coach is going to be liked more than a successful one, no matter how much of an arse the winner is or how much of a "great guy" the loser is.

And, no, this is not limited to LSU by any means. I would be surprised if there were any collection of sports fans in the world for whom this was not true.

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Another NEGATIGER theory up in

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My personal favorite was the ranting during the '04-'05 season about how Brady had "wasted a scholarship" on that Tyrus Thomas reject, followed up in the '05-'06 season by the same people ranting about how stupid Brady was for redshirting the obvious superstar Tyrus Thomas.

But, Brady's gone now (thank goodness), so maybe they can be spared from looking quite so stupid now.

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Trent's winning with Brady's players. Too bad Brady couldn't!

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Too bad Brady's best players couldn't play hurt last year.

I hope Trent can recruit I just don't see any evidence. I wish he would have kept Butch because we know Butch could. In Basketball unlike football you can tell quickly if a coach can recruit. LSU needs power players with an inside game.