Actually, if Trent had recruited Markel Brown and Langston Galloway rather than Matt Derenbecker and Andre Stringer, LSU would probably be sitting at 22-8 and 10-6 right now and we wouldn't really be worrying about the state of the program.

You could replace him with a guy like Gregg Marshall or Steve Prohm, pay them less money than Trent is making right now and you'd have a program that would fill the PMAC and be in the Top 25 within 2-3 years.

We're not lacking in resources. We just haven't had a top-flight coach. We're where we were in football in 1999. We finally started hiring championship-quality football coaches and lo and behold we found ourselves to be a championship-quality program.

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Posted by Lonnie4LSU

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Member since Aug 2008

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Posted on 3/4/12 at 11:10 am to teeMike

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Would you be willing to pull more financial resources that would normally go to Football to hire better coaches, upgrade facilities, etc.?

Are we gonna lower the football expectations?

LSU has always been a football school.

It was a football school when our basketball program was reaching the Final 4 three times.

Maybe not as elite a football program as we have now, but we always been football 1st and anything else a distant 2nd in funding. imo

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Posted by Elleshoe

Wade’s World

Member since Jun 2004

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Posted on 3/4/12 at 11:16 am to Lonnie4LSU

funding isn't the problem right now.

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Posted by S

RIP Wayde

Member since Jan 2007

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Posted on 3/4/12 at 11:27 am to mike4lsu

so you're saying we should invest in the women's team but not the men?

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Posted by roygu

Member since Jan 2004

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Posted on 3/4/12 at 11:37 am to MrWiseGuy

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You can't be serious.

Greg Monroe, Tyrus Thomas, Glen Davis, Brandon Bass, DJ Augustin, Paul Millsap, Marcus Thornton, Antawn Jamison, Chris Duhon, Danny Granger.

Yeh, this state doesn't produce any talent.

Louisiana has always produced talent. The problem has always been keeping them in state. Even Dale Brown didn't consistently get the best in state talent.

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Posted by otowntiger

O-Town

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Posted on 3/4/12 at 12:40 pm to mike4lsu

mike4lsu: You are not really "4" LSU if you truly mean this. Men's basketball at LSU can and SHOULD be a perennial power. LSU baseball has not always been good. In fact most of the last decade they weren't very good but before Bertman it was much much lower in terms of stature and success than basketball EVER has been. Besides your statement is even more ridiculous when you consider that the basketball team is and always has been significantly more profitable than the baseball. team

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Posted by BayouBengals03

lsu14always

Member since Nov 2007

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Posted on 3/4/12 at 12:42 pm to mike4lsu

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The state of Louisiana is not the fertile breading ground for basketball talent as it is for football talent. So it will be always hard to compete in basketball.

Have you seen the players that have come out of Louisiana in the last 10 years?

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Posted by dgnx6

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Posted on 3/4/12 at 1:55 pm to teeMike

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upgrade facilities, etc.?

Not sure how they allocate resources, but didnt they just upgrade the facilities? They were building something my last semester at lsu. We have new baseball and softball stadiums, constantly are doing improvements on dv. Its not like they havent been spending money.

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