re: Coaches who were defeated by Dale Brown

I don't understand all the trashing of Dale recently. All I'm guessing is either because of the court naming thing which was always dumb or meaningless to me anyway, or maybe because of some defense of Wade. But what I will say is if Dale is a trash coach then maybe we just need to admit we're a trash program because he's the best we got

I'll be the first to admit that Dale was never perfect and he underachieved when he got real talent in the program and it ended on a sour note with he Lester Earl thing. But he brought a lot of excitement and relevance to this program, for a long 15 year stretch I might add. If we're trying to tear Dale down then what exactly are we trying to prop up in his place?

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Les beat Saban 3 times.

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Gerry DiNardo beat Saban, too.

What happened to Dale his last few years? Did he lose interest in recruiting, coaching?

What is your point?

Post his teams best outcomes compared to those coaches teams accomplishments please !

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How long would we let a football coach linger who wins 54% of his conference games and only 1 conference title?

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I mean, our football program is not a complete piece of shite like our basketball program was when he took it over. There is a reason he was basically unknown and had never coached in college before LSU got him - because the program sucked and nobody cared.

He should have left a few years before he did, but he clearly elevated the program and created expectations. LSU hadn't won the SEC for a quarter of a century until Brown won his first SEC title. And even though he thought the SEC tourney was a waste of time, he still has our only SEC tourney title as well. Comparing football to basketball at LSU is comparing apples to oranges.

It wasn’t meant as an apples to apples comparison. More of a contrast. And regardless winning 54% of the time is very mediocre. He had some of the greatest players to ever play the game and never advanced past the 2nd round.
3 conference titles in 25 years is excellence?
He’s not in the basketball hall of fame, because the results were average.

My issue is Dale Brown was in charge during the Lester Earl crap, completely crippling the program for years.

And my mind still can't fathom having Chris Jackson, Shaq, & Stanley Roberts but couldn't get past the 2nd round of the tournament.

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What happened to Dale his last few years? Did he lose interest in recruiting, coaching?

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Not at all. He recruited the best player in the country Randy Livingston and a 5 star shooting guard Ronnie Henderson and was poised to continue the run until Livingston blew out his knee jumping over a folding chair to dunk during a summer camp in 1993 and was lost for the 1993-1994 year. The next year they started out 3-0 in the SEC with Randy playing superman at the end of each game. Then he blew out his knee again and another season ended poorly despite Henderson's stellar play.

Randy went to the NBA despite his knee issues but there was still promise in 1996 with Lester Earl and Cory Powell arriving from Glen Oaks and Deuce Ford transferring from Memphis State. Then at a holiday tournament in Hawaii good ole Roy Williams nefariously coerced Lester Earl into transferring. to Kansas , Cory Powell became academically ineligible and Deuce Ford blew out his knee and another season went down in flames. The Dale Brown era was essentially over at that point, but what an incredible climb to the top it had been for 15 years. Dale took one last lap around the league in 1997 and was honored at every stop, even at Kentucky. They returned the jacket he had thrown onto center court in his early years when he thought officials were allowing the Wildcats to bully his team and the league.