re: Dale Brown Court Controversy

You know what's another difference. Sue would never had cared about having her name on the court or found it important. Dale does.

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1-03-92 Superdome - 61,304 - LSU 84 Texas 83

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“You should bury your heads tonight. That was one of the lousiest performances I’ve ever witnessed!”

-Dale, after the game.

You can't seriously believe Earl was the only player Dale bought. As has been stated here, Dale cheating is one thing, as noted, everyone was doing it. But the way he ranted & raved against the NCAA about cheating was so hypocritical he made a fool out of himself and LSU. Abernathy getting caught with that suitcase full of money & his / LSU's explanation was only one such example.

Mahmoud Abdul Rauf Prayer Rug facing east

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This makes me like brown less and want to go against whatever his camp wants.

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It's the only reason I'm totally for it now. Maybe he can swing me back his way if he manned up and did the whining personally instead of through media emissaries.

Let’s name it Chapman Gunther court to get all of the misspellings together

If you didn’t win a championship, sorry your name shouldn’t be on a stadium, field, or court. Thanks for your service to the university though.

This is how much Dale cares about the program:

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Dick Vitale
@DickieV
How ABSURD - in Louisiana the Governor wants to change the name of the LSU basketball court that was named DALE BROWN COURT in a dedication ceremony about a year ago . This is wacky Dale deserved the honor & it finally was affirmed & now UGLY POLITICS is involved .
@TimBrando

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Goes running to an enemy of the program, that has spent the last 4 years trying to cripple the program, to try to further drag the school through the mud. Should take that piece of shite's name off the court tonight.

Also lends more credence to the idea of Dale running to Vitale to get him to shite talk Wade for years.

To me, this is a ridiculous topic.
Until LSU has another Pete Maravich (and Shaq came close) or wins a national championship, nobody in basketball had any business naming anything about anything.

I was a student during Dale Brown's years. Most people on this board are too young to know how far LSU basketball had fallen once Pete left.

The old stories about Brown driving around the state and giving out nets for basketball goals is true. He had to literally start from the bare ground up in building a program that had become irrelevant.

Dale's contribution, therefore, goes beyond his won-lost record and his NCAA finishes. He left under faltering circumstances, but even then he left the program in far better shape overall than when he arrived in 1972.

For those reasons, okay, I can see why there was a push to honor him with his name on the court.
It shouldn't have passed, in my opinion. But it did, and it's not "wrong" that Brown's name is there.

But to somehow equate Sue Gunter with Brown is insanity. Women's basketball was an oft-ignored lesser sport at LSU when she got here, and it was still ignored and unimportant when she left. It would be a travesty to put her name on the court - especially when Kim Mulkey's name is already on the verge of eclipsing Gunter's.

Dale was controversial, to be sure. He was outspoken. He battled the NCAA constantly (and for good reasons).
Was he a good coach? Sometimes.
Was he a great recruiter? Absolutely. And LSU benefited from its association with those names.

Gunter's chain-smoking and her sexuality drove Dale crazy. He thought she set a poor example, and in those times he was right.

Gunter is a part of LSU athletic history. No question about that. But her contribution and impact is not worthy of naming the main basketball floor after her. Not even close.