re: Is there any reason in keeping Johnny Jones for another year?

LSU is poor.

but Jones has daddy dale and ct backing him. Plus the budget crisis with a bitch of a president that hates sports. King isn't going to let LSU sports get better under his watch by spending money. If he does that then people will cry that LSU has too much money and he wont get the bloated budget that he wants.

LSU needs to be cleansed of F. King so its academics and sports can improve.

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At this point it's pretty obvious the Jones hire is a train wreck. And those that lobbied for his cause should admit they were wrong.

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Just more fodder to fire Alleva. I don't know how much else you need but it's just laughable at this point.

He is not a great recruiter Simmons came because of dad's friend and Blakely because of Simmons.Dale was better at this by a mile

The athletic department needs to make the commitment to having a championship level program. It's the second highest revenue generating sport on campus. Other schools in the sec are making big time financial commitments to basketball with coaching hires and new arenas. We better keep up with the joneses and get rid of ours

" If this team is coached by a good coach, it's ranked in the top-20 easily "



This is laughable.........No pg on entire roster,only 2 post players with one being Simmons who's not a true post, the other being Victor who can not stay in the game without getting in bad position and fouling. To top that off this is the worst group of defenders ever assembled. Now I want JJ gone.... but this is not accurate IMO.

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Good recruiter, got momentum back, not a good X and O coach, and fell on their face with very good talent in their last year(s).

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Reminds me of JJ's mentor.

Honest question for you, which I posed on Saturday. Assuming Jones keeps his job next year (high probability), can we agree that he is on the hot seat and will likely be canned if he doesn't make the NCAAT next year? (again, I would say it is more likely than not we do not make the Dance next year even if AB comes back, which is a question).

How hard is it going to be to recruit for 17-18 season, when there is a high probability Jones is a lame duck coach in 16-17? If so, I think it's a valid concern of what the roster will look like with a new coach in 2017-18?

Will the roster in 2017-18 that Johnny leaves LSU with after his likely firing be significantly better than the 2012-13 roster he had his first year which had Carmouche, Hickey, JOB, and Stringer?

We have no way of knowing of course at this time, but that roster did have an NBA player on it.

I think Johnny should be fired after this season because I think he has shown he cannot win a NCAA Tourney game when he has NBA talent. I don't think giving him one year will help our program and in fact, I think it could put us in a big hole in 2017-2018 for the new coach.

If you don't think this team would be in the top-20 with a better coach, then you need to take a better look at the schedule. With a better coach, we at least have 5 or 6 more wins on the schedule at least. NC State, Wake Forest, College of Charleston, Houston, Marquette, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Alabama at home were all games we would have won, but if LSU just wins 5 of those we are sitting at 23-8. With that record, we'd be a top-20 team which is where we should be. Hell, even 3 or 4 more wins and we'd be ranked.

The amount of excuses and passes people are giving LSU Basketball right now is sad. This program isn't good right now and it's not because of the talent...

We have the potential #1 overall pick and what do we have to show for it??Furthermore, Johnny Jones has been here 4 years and what does he have to show for it?? The he same winning percentage he had at North Texas...

If the basketball program is content with going to the tournament 1 out of every 4 years, then keep Jones. All I'm trying to say is that if LSU basketball is to be better than it had been the past 10 years, we need to get rid of Johnny Jones.