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re: Dale's cronies are gonna now push for a Dale Brown statue
Posted on 2/10/23 at 1:02 pm to nicholastiger
Posted on 2/10/23 at 1:02 pm to nicholastiger
I grew up in the Dale Brown Era. He wasn't that good of a coach. 1981 was an amazingly talented team. He really lucked into another final four. We usually had a few great games a year but not great seasons. And really no excuse in not being better with Shaq, CJ and Robert's.
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Posted on 2/10/23 at 1:11 pm to Willietd
And had the fricking refs threw Bobby Knight out of the elite 8 game in 1987, Dale would have had 3 FF.
Posted on 2/10/23 at 1:14 pm to nicholastiger
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Dale's cronies are gonna now push for a Dale Brown statue
which will be a joke if he gets one
Should have done that from the get go. Sue got a statue, she was good coach, not great. Dale gets one he was a good coach, not great. Leave it at that.
Court goes to the coach that wins a natty.
Posted on 2/10/23 at 1:15 pm to Willietd
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no excuse in not being better with Shaq, CJ and Robert's.
truth
Posted on 2/10/23 at 1:19 pm to Sanantoniotiger76
John Brady coached us to a final four and now is a great analyst for LSU. Where is his statue? Since they only made it to the top for amongst them then they should each be named for a fourth of the court.
Posted on 2/10/23 at 1:38 pm to Willietd
A string of 13 years in a row in the NCAA tournament.
Posted on 2/10/23 at 1:48 pm to Portcityblues
We would have had much better over the past 15 or so years had they kept Brady.
Posted on 2/10/23 at 1:49 pm to nicholastiger
quote:L.A. TIMES ARCHIVES - DEC. 24, 1987
Bob Knight, Indiana basketball coach, responding to a story in which Lousiana State Coach Dale Brown took some shots at him, recalled last season’s Midwest Regionals in which LSU led Indiana, 75-66, with only four minutes left.
“It didn’t look good,” Knight said. “In fact, my assistants had just about given up, and so had I. Then I looked down toward the other bench, and I saw Dale Brown standing there. I knew then that we had a chance.”
Indiana won, 77-76.
Of Brown’s coaching, he said: “To paraphrase Churchill, probably never has so little been done with so much.”
Posted on 2/10/23 at 2:08 pm to nicholastiger
How about they take all names off of the court?
Posted on 2/10/23 at 2:09 pm to nicholastiger
They should
Posted on 2/10/23 at 2:22 pm to nicholastiger
Dale Brown was a good coach. But I'm sorry Pistol Pete is a legend. No one will ever break his college scoring record. Best pure shooter and passer in the game. To go from Pete Maravich Assembly Center to Dale Fn Brown is a down right stupid a$$ move. Should have left it alone.
Posted on 2/10/23 at 2:28 pm to sta4ever
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This state is a joke.
Posted on 2/10/23 at 2:30 pm to Salviati
I never knew why the court was being named after Dale. Also, why he was given so much stroke from afar.
Posted on 2/10/23 at 2:37 pm to nicholastiger
I was there before and then through the Dale Brown years. I've never understood the hatred from the rant for him.
Posted on 2/10/23 at 2:41 pm to pitchandcatch27
What are you talking about? No one was taking Pistol's name off the arena
Posted on 2/10/23 at 2:42 pm to Sanantoniotiger76
I'm not denying he's the best coach LSU had had. But the pool of good coaches was thin. 13 years in a row is solid and above average but not high level. When you have CJ and Shaq that's 2 guys on the Tiger Mt Rushmore. Plus the team was deep. He was an above average coach. I just don't see him as a great coach.
Posted on 2/10/23 at 2:42 pm to Willietd
You say the 1981 final four team was extremely talented …. Add up the entire teams NBA years compared to Indiana’s Isiah Thomas Rudy’s Macklin two years , Howard Carter 1 year , Greg Cook , cup of coffee , Leonard Mitchell , Ethan Martin , Willie Sims ,Jordy Hultberg , etc etc etc none . Teams that win the championship have NBA stars or superstars on them . None of those guys qualify . They were damn good college players and that’s it
As far Shaq , Robert’s and Chris Jackson … the one year they played together … Shaq was an offensive liability and Chris Jackson … well , great college player but he wasn’t an NBA superstar. I remember the year before when an unheralded player named Tim Hardaway played Chris Jackson’s shorts off . The next year we found out why … Hardaway was NBA rookie of the year … Jackson became a marginal NBA player
As far Shaq , Robert’s and Chris Jackson … the one year they played together … Shaq was an offensive liability and Chris Jackson … well , great college player but he wasn’t an NBA superstar. I remember the year before when an unheralded player named Tim Hardaway played Chris Jackson’s shorts off . The next year we found out why … Hardaway was NBA rookie of the year … Jackson became a marginal NBA player
This post was edited on 2/10/23 at 2:48 pm
Posted on 2/10/23 at 2:48 pm to Willietd
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And really no excuse in not being better with Shaq, CJ and Robert's.
I don't think Dale deserves a statue or the court named after him, but revisionist history gives him a little too much grief for this.
Shaq, CJ and Roberts played one season together and they lost by 3 in the tournament to a GT team that made the Final Four. And by Shaq's own admission, he wasn't very good yet.
Posted on 2/10/23 at 2:54 pm to Bottom9
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mean she was a better coach than Dale, the record says so.
Come on, man. The zero SEC regular season titles say otherwise. And Brown still is tied for the lowest seed to make the Final Four 35+ years after he became the first coach ever to take an 11-seed that far. He had his faults, but I have to give him credit where it's due.
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