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Dale Brown...you think he gets all this praise that skip has been getting when he passes?
Posted on 8/18/26 at 4:10 pm
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Posted on 8/18/26 at 4:11 pm to alterego55
Weird post, but no some people have soured on Dale for his meddling in the program
Posted on 8/18/26 at 4:14 pm to alterego55
Skip was a little more impactful overall but Dale put LSU basketball on the map and consistently went to the NCAA tournament. He just wasn't the coach that Skip was but he'll be remembered as a coach that, like Skip, had to build the program from scratch with not a lot of support at first. But as they say, winning fixes everything. He was as good a motivator as skip.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 4:14 pm to alterego55
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you think he gets all this praise that skip has been getting when he passes ?
No fricking way. Dale Brown is 1000 x more divisive than Skip. There's people out there that think Dale seriously has damaged aspects of LSU as a whole, and consider him a cheater. I'm not commenting on my opinion, as I am far too young to have an informed one, but I can tell you for sure that people feel that way about him. It's hard to find a single person with anything bad to say about Skip, except maybe that he was cheap in certain situations as AD
Posted on 8/18/26 at 4:14 pm to alterego55
Skip is liked by everyone. Dale has tarnished his legacy a bit with some of the things he’s said over the past decade or so.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 4:17 pm to alterego55
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“Few people have had a greater impact on LSU than Skip Bertman," said LSU Vice President/Director of Athletics Verge Ausberry.
"As the greatest college baseball coach of all-time, and later as our Athletics Director, Skip developed a championship standard and culture that still guide us today.
Dale and Skip aren’t really in the same universe
Posted on 8/18/26 at 4:20 pm to mcspufftiger7
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tiger7Skip was a little more impactful overall but Dale put LSU basketball on the map a
Pete put LSU front and center and Brown picked up that momentum and used it to build a powerhouse.
But he stayed too long and left the program as low or lower than when he took over.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 4:30 pm to doubleb
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Pete put LSU front and center and Brown picked up that momentum and used it to build a powerhouse.
There was no "momentum". The LSU teams Pete played on weren't very good. Press Maravich's final two teams (before Dale was hired) were a combined 24-28. Dale didn't have a winning season at LSU until his 5th year. From 67-77 LSU basketball was irrelevant except for the 3 year novelty of Pete.
Like Bertman, it was Brown who made LSU nationally relevant. But unlike Bertman, Brown didn't win any national championships. Worse, Brown's career ended in disgrace with bad seasons and LSU being put on probation. That's why he won't get the same unanimous outpouring as Bertman
Posted on 8/18/26 at 4:31 pm to alterego55
Indeed NOT
Posted on 8/18/26 at 4:33 pm to doubleb
quote:I must have missed this alternate universe.
Pete put LSU front and center and Brown picked up that momentum and used it to build a powerhouse.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 4:53 pm to JimTiger72
Dale and Skip aren’t really in the same universe
—might want to wait til Dale passes on before you make that judgment. If Verge is still around, he’ll likely be just as kind to Dale.
So will Shaq.
—might want to wait til Dale passes on before you make that judgment. If Verge is still around, he’ll likely be just as kind to Dale.
So will Shaq.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 4:54 pm to doubleb
Pete put LSU front and center and Brown picked up that momentum and used it to build a powerhouse.
—-You have no idea what you’re saying
—-You have no idea what you’re saying
Posted on 8/18/26 at 4:57 pm to Alt26
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unlike Bertman, Brown didn't win any national championships.
This. Brown excelled in bringing talent to LSU, but always managed to squander it away.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 5:07 pm to alterego55
Really??
Posted on 8/18/26 at 5:07 pm to alterego55
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do you think he gets all this praise that skip has been getting when he passes ?
This can’t be a serious question
Posted on 8/18/26 at 5:11 pm to alterego55
Nah Daddy Dale is part of the reason LSU basketball was in as bad a shape as it has been
Posted on 8/18/26 at 5:14 pm to BebeLudwig7
Dale Brown took the basketball program from nothing to multiple Final 4's. He may not be perfect, but he's on Mount Rushmore with Skip and Saban at LSU. Those three had the biggest impact on LSU in my lifetime as far as coaches.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 5:27 pm to Alt26
Engster will cover it like the pope died
Posted on 8/18/26 at 5:29 pm to tiger81
I went to Lsu in the 70s and I was there when he first came. He built our program through the years maybe not to the level of success of winning championships but he was one hell of a recruiter. Like Will Wade the NCAA was always harassing him but leaving the Blue blood programs like Kentucky ,North Carolina and Kansas alone when they were doing a lot worse than Dale did.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 5:46 pm to alterego55
He deserves and will get a lot, but not quite to that extent.
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