re: Dale Brown...you think he gets all this praise that skip has been getting when he passes?

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Uh..im sorry..when did Daddy Dale win 1 Championship let alone 5?

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I think some are missing the mark on this and comparing coaching resume's - I don't think the initial question was about that - the question is would Dale get as much praise upon his death. I have never been a Dale fan boy, but He'll get plenty and honestly because basketball is significantly more popular nationally - that's just a fact - Dale would get maybe more nationwide, Skip more locally.

That's not nothing to do with whose resume is better.

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Dale Brown is 1000 x more divisive than Skip.

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Dale was actually known for visiting children's cancer wards, bringing his players to tiny rural rickety wooden churches to meet blind people, etc. Not saying that Skip didn't do charitable "humanitarian" things, but it was more in a general sense like speaking at a fundraising dinner. When Dale dies there are going to be actual individuals who show up at his funeral who had special needs, etc. and will say that they greatly appreciated him treating them like a king for one afternoon with the entire team including its future NBA players tagging along for the visit.

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It's hard to find a single person with anything bad to say about Skip

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As A.D., he started the Tradition Fund, which de facto hiked ticket prices by thousands of dollars overnight. He also did not try to stop Nick Saban or Pat Henry from leaving LSU. Saban would have been expensive to try to bribe into staying, but Henry could have easily been convinced that A&M supporters were lying to him when they tried to make it sound like their track program had a sold-out football stadium gameday atmosphere. While LSU's Bernie Moore Track Stadium and Carl Maddox Field House are not exactly "Death Valley," those were larger facilities than A&M had and came with a core of loyal supporters.