Let's revisit the Shaq/Stanley Roberts duo

What really jumps out to me is that LSU fans couldn't wait to fire the most successful basketball coach in LSU history, in part because he should have won more with that much talent.

And now they want to do the same with football.

MelvinTurpin , Sam Bowie accomplished quite a it more hardware. If you're in to that stuff.

I remember that time Jordan posterized Melvin Turpin because a fan told him to dunk on someone bigger than Stockton.

To your point, however, yes, that is also a great choice of center combos. Turpin doesn't meet the 7' mark, but a great center nonetheless. Tragic ending he had for sure.

The Twin Towers from Kentucky say "Hello."

Yes, he was incredible defensively, highly intelligent, and an all-around great human being for all he does for the poorer countries in Africa. Zo is great too, but was just curious about true 7' centers on the same college team.

Stanley let the night life derail his professional basketball career, unfortunately, so we don't have an adequate sample size from which to compare. However, Shaq's career is enough for two, so we can just split his stats

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What really jumps out to me is that LSU fans couldn't wait to fire the most successful basketball coach in LSU history, in part because he should have won more with that much talent.

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Dale was forced out cause he produced 4 straight yrs. of losing BB teams after 15 yrs. of NCAA tourney teams. I'm not going to pretend to know the why of it, but Dale allowed the bottom to drop out of LSU basketball. Dale has no one to blame for his ending at LSU, but Dale.

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And now they want to do the same with football.

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There is no reasonable comparison that can be made between Dale's last 4 yrs. at LSU and the last 4 yrs. of LSU football under Miles. It's night to day difference. imo

The DGAF was strong with Stanley it sounds like.

Shaq was very young and pretty raw. Stanley Roberts was fat and lazy. No, they were nowhere close to the best pair of 7 footers. Maybe had the greatest potential.

Roberts was the better prospect coming out of HS and had a much more refined offensive game than Shaq. In fact, I think even Brown thought (at the time) that Roberts was the future NBA star, not Shaq. Shaq didn't really have a great skill set when he first got to LSU. He was just big and athletic.

The problem is that Roberts didn't stay long at LSU, and while he was there, he was constantly in trouble for not going to class. He left right before his Junior season started because he was going to be ineligible anyway. Shaq and Stanley really didn't really play together all that often

Not only could Daddy Dale not win the conference with those players, it was a time when UK was on probation & was nowhere near what they used to or are now. Ga. & Vandy, WillfrickingPerdue won the conference 2 of those yrs as I recall.