re: Dale Brown whining on Buddy Songy

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You and I are both entitled to our opinions no matter how stupid and outlandish they are.

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I agree. :)

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One thing's for sure. When Dale Brown was at LSU we weren't just a football school.

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There wasn't a "Deaf Dome" before Dale Brown, and there really hasn't been once since.

I was there for the UNLV games and Loyola Marymount shootout. Back then, the PMAC was louder than Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night. People camped out for days sometimes to get in for games.

Since Dale Brown...well...it's been a sometimes pleasant distraction from the time between football and baseball.

All of this debate over whether he was effective or not really doesn't matter to me. My experience was that Dale Brown brought some of the best memories to LSU basketball and to LSU Athletics as a whole.

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Actually it's more of a baseball school.

Look at the titles.

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Alex Box never has and never will hold 92,000+ folks in it.

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I do admire his accomplishments but I also remember why he is gone when you hear stuff like this.

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Accomplishments? For the time and the talent he had, there should have been at least one championship. I label him very much an underachiever. And, he was a coach in a period when LSU didnt demand the best from its coaches (and didnt want to pay the elite coaches salaries). He was a great recruiter but poor basketball coach.

And, if you recall, this same bitching by Brown resulted in more than one fight between football and basketball team players during Brown's tenure. If I recall, a couple were during the Dinardo era(?).

Thats right Scott Ledford! I am talkin to you! :)

Skip feels the same way about LSU. According to Bertman, the two most popular sports at LSU is Football and spring Football.

This is a typical clueless ranter thread telling us how stupid Dale Brown is for telling us his true perspective on LSU sports.

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Actually every sport at LSU loses money except for football

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Not true. Baseball makes $$

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Accomplishments?

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1) Winningest coach in LSU men's basketball history
2) Led the Tigers to Final Four appearances in 1981 and 1986
3) In 25 years prior to Brown, LSU won 288 games and 2 NCAA Tourneys. During his 25 years, LSU won 448 games, and 13 NCAA Tourneys
4) Despite taking LSU who had only 4 winning seasons in 18 yrs, Brown had a wining record in his 1st yr
5) In his first home game, the Tigers beat #11 Memphis St by double digits
6) An OT win over eventual N.C. Ky, even with all LSU starters fouling out
7) Lowest seeded team to reach the Final Four
8) Only SEC coach to have ever appeared in 15 straight national tournaments
9) Top 12 in NCAA coaches with consecutive NCAA appearances (10)
10) 2nd in SEC wins
11) Tops of SEC coaches with consecutive non-losing seasons (17)
12) Top 4 in SEC coaches in all-time conference championships
13) 9 time SEC Coach of the Yr/Runner-Up
14) 2 time National Coach of the Year
15) 105 of 160 of his players received their college degrees
16) Winningest coach ever vs Ky
17) Holds the record for the 2nd,3rd, and 4th largest attendance in college basketball history

And to think he wasnt able to do more the one year he had Chris and Shaq together. I see your point. The list shouts "underachiever."

yea but who the FV(l< is DALE BROWN?

dale had a great run at lsu back in the day.he was perhaps one of the best recruiters in country at the time and one of the best motivators in the game but he was unfortunatly not a good coach and its unfortunate that when he left lsu he put us on probation. but i still like old dale and he deserves respect for his years of service at lsu.