re: Here's to Dale Brown!

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because Dale spoke out about the hypocrisy of the whole damn institution and it pissed them off.

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Cam Newton is solid proof of what Dale was saying

Greg "Cookie Monster" Cook was one bad mofo - one of the nicest guys off court you would ever meet.

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I'm going to assume you are in your 20's........Daddy Dale made LSU BBall into something for the first time ever. The NCAA then went after LSU when Dale was out the door, pressuring a young kid to lie for them.

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As a guy in his mid-20’s I’d like to turn this comment upside-down a bit...I was 6 or 7 going to games at the PMAC when CJ and Shaq were there with my family and also started going to football games…a few years ago, my brother and I were reflecting back on that at the time and in our memories it felt LSU basketball felt bigger than LSU football. At the PMAC, sold out crowds were the norm, Mike would come down from the ceiling before tip-offs and the place was rocking. Meanwhile, there were tons of empty seats at football games where the most passion that was shown was grown men yelling to fire the coach. Daddy Dale did over-achieve with lesser talent and under-achieve with greater talent. But most importantly, he made LSU basketball matter. It’s more than just winning. I don’t think there was a real sell out during Brady's Final 4 season. Tim Brando made this point yesterday on the Finebaum show…for all of Bruce Pearl’s flaws, he’s made Tennessee basketball matter again, and the fan base has embraced him for that. Today at LSU (in every sport other than football), a coach has to be a marketer in addition to being a great coach…Skip understood this…Please TJ, make it matter…

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I think you guys need to knock the cobwebs off. Dale wasn't that great of a coach. His only success came with overachieving teams

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Having a team or player overachieve is the fricking definition of a great coach, asswipe.

How do some of you even consider yourself sports fans?

SO with your moronic theory, who gets the credit when a player gets better than he was expected to be?

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Probation from over a decade ago isn't the reason we suck now.

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Ah those damned Draconian Sanctions...

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A girl on our high school basketball team had a bad encounter with "Daddy" Dale

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Come on...no need to take the discussion to that level.

Dale was great for LSU basketball till his last few years.

I think he decided to turn the program over to his asst. toward the end or else he loss his fire cause the program seemed to go south pretty fast.

As I recall, he had like a 15 year postseason run with two final 4's. Not too bad for a football school.

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Because he left us on probation

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Go be a troll somewhere else.

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Ruh roh! Care to elaborate?

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Don't feed this dewsh. I can't believe it hasn't been whacked yet.

Dale was a great recruiter and great motivator. Pure X's and O's were not his strong points, but he could get guys to believe they were better than they actually were (See '86 Final Four team). He was also a showman. He made LSU basketball an event, just like Bruce Pearl has done at Tenn.

Today's struggles are not Dale Brown's fault. (They also aren't John Brady's fault). TJ is in charge now and the success and failures of his teams are laid at his feet.

The apathy of the fan base is the.... fan's fault. After the '06 Final Four season, the fans failed to show interest in the team (even in the early part of the season before SEC play). In the '09 SEC championship season, the fans still failed to get excited until damn near the last home game of the season.

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Dale was a great recruiter, not so good coach. His teams were widely viewed as underachieving. Everyone love Daddy Dale but anyone who tells you otherwise is full of shite, is too young, or has no memory.

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Stated more accurately, Dale was always viewed as a master motivator and not so much of an x's and o's coach. He was often thought to overachieve with some of his talent. The whole Shaq, Stanley Roberts, Chris Jackson thing is a weak argument for underachieving. Shaq was a true freshman, was often in foul trouble, and no where near the scoring threat he would grow into the next couple of years. Stanley was a red shirt freshman, so it was his first year playing. Chris was awesome. But it was their first and only year playing together at a time when star players hung around for at least 3 years. Had this team stayed together, it would have been special. But it was unreasonable to have expected them to go so deep when it was Shaq's and Stanley's first year playing.