re: Dale brown Ceremony @5:45

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I’m not saying we’ve reached it yet, but there’s been glimpses that our basketball fanbase is hungry and wants a winner here that Wade is giving us the past few years

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Wade probably can, but todays fanbase is much different and the fervor of those Brown teams will never be the same.

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don’t hate him, but he doesn’t deserve having the court named after him.

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Although I think naming courts after someone is generally stupid and Dale stayed a little too long at LSU, the program he created was remarkable. The fact that he took a complete turd of a program and turned it into a winner that made it to the tournament consistently was one thing, but the awesome atmosphere he created at the PMAC and how he sold LSU basketball and the sport in general in Louisiana was unprecedented.

It seems impossible that LSU held the regular season basketball attendance record for any basketball game for many years for the 60,000+ in the Dome, but the fact that 3 of the top 5 regular season attendances still belong to LSU for games in the Dome is unbelievable. He marketed and sold the program like no other.

Now, Brown clearly lacked X and O expertise (as he has said himself), he liked to hear himself talk too much and he never won a national championship, but he called the NCAA out for their hypocrisy while creating one hell of an exciting program with great memories that last to this day. They don't even let teams in the tourney host rounds now due to LSU's environment back in the day. The reason LSU basketball came to have any expectations was due to what Dale Brown accomplished.

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Name a lsu coach who’s done more in the history of lsu basketball… I’ll wait

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That’s irrelevant to me. I think there should be a high standard for honors like that (national championships) and he hasn’t met them. There’s no rule that you have to name your court after your most successful coach.

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Buga225

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You obviously were not around in the '70's and '80's. Dale took a really bad program and put it on the map rather quickly. The center on his first team, nicknamed The Hustlers, was 6'2" Wade Evans. When he picked up Hondo Hanson and then Kenny Higgs we all knew something good was brewing.

And then we started beating Kentucky. You'll never understand how much fun it was when we'd pull the upset in front of 14,000 Tiger fans. UK would usually have a few hundred come down with them. That game when all our starters fouled out...unbelievable.

The crazy tournament runs, Loyola Marymount, Georgetown in the dome, driving around Louisiana and donating a brand new net to every basketball goal in every driveway he saw, including mine. The man put LSU basketball on the map through hard work and determination.

He deserves this honor!

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So what likely happen is yes, Brown did have communications with long time acquaintance, Dick Vitale. And it is likely in those communications Brown overstepped the breath and depth of his actual knowledge of the current basketball program to which Vitale took and ran with it...to the detriment of Wade's program. I don't get the sense Brown dislikes Wade (or did at the time). I just get the sense Brown thinks he has more knowledge of the innerworkings of the current program than he does, and he's not unwilling to speculate as to things of which he has no actual knowledge.

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So in other words Dale Brown as a proven elite coach spoke to Dick about what he would do different with the program if it were in his hands and not Wade's?

I'm confused? I guess the only elite coaches with any opinion are TD posters?

Didn't Culutta go to ULL or USL?

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Dale Brown ceremony

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Boycotting that.

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AlecRock23

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You just about nailed all of it.

This board is all about hurt feelings and adoring large penises.

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Watch wades answer to the question about brown that ended yesterday’s press conference.

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Absolutely, saw it and if anyone had any doubts that should settle it.

Brown has pretty much quit coming to games and early in WW's tenure he'd be at all of them.

I don't pretend to know the reasons but if - and yes it's a big if because I have no idea - if it's because of perceived recruiting improprieties, that would be very hypocritical and ironic.

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Dale coached for 25 years my man. Wade is in his fifth year. Already a better coach imo

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Youre an idiot

Dale Brown
4 SEC titles
1 SEC tourney title
15 consecutive post season appearances
3 sweet 16 appearances
2 elite 8 appearances
1 final 4

Notable recruits:
Rudy Macklin
Dewayne Scales
Ethan Martin
Howard Carter
Leonard Mitchell
Ice Reynolds
Derek Taylor
Don Redden
John Williams
Ricky Blanton
Chris Jackson
Stanley Roberts
Shaq
Geert Hammink
Randy Livingston


And went head to head with the nazis at the NCAA, and with the current NIL situation has now been proven correct