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re: LSU women's tennis coach Tony Minnis will not return next season
Posted on 5/16/12 at 10:41 pm to LSURussian
Posted on 5/16/12 at 10:41 pm to LSURussian
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I follow LSU sports closer than the average fan most likely. If I don't know LSU even fields a team in a sport you can be pretty certain a LOT of LSU supporters don't know it. And if we don't know it, how can we support it?
You do realize that if you were a true fan of everything LSU and wanted to support all of the teams you could easily go to lsusports.net. They have rosters, stats, and news from every team. I understand that LSU media doesn't do a great job of promoting these sports, but you are just being ignorant by not knowing that LSU has a womens tennis team. All you have to do is look on the official LSUsports website...
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Posted on 5/16/12 at 10:51 pm to Nashty
ULM has a better water skiing program.
Posted on 5/16/12 at 10:52 pm to OU812
quote:
ULM has a better water skiing program.
truth
although LSU's is new...i think a girl from ULM actually started LSU's club?
ETA: and it is obviously not an official university sport, just a club
This post was edited on 5/16/12 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 5/17/12 at 8:12 am to Eighteen
If we're going to sink money into these sports we might as well win. bilj....
:bow:
Agreed, agreed for all sports at LSU....sure not all can win all the time, but we should not settle for losing too much...for lots of reasons, we WILL always have sports that are considered "minor" so we mine as well do our best to win in them....
:bow: Agreed, agreed for all sports at LSU....sure not all can win all the time, but we should not settle for losing too much...for lots of reasons, we WILL always have sports that are considered "minor" so we mine as well do our best to win in them....
Posted on 5/17/12 at 8:23 am to Nashty
quote:Oh, okay. I guess it's incumbent upon me to do research rather than depend upon the coach or the LSU marketing department to publicize a program.
but you are just being ignorant by not knowing that LSU has a womens tennis team.
My bad....
Posted on 5/17/12 at 8:24 am to Eighteen
quote:Not really. I just expect the existence of a viable sports program at LSU to be common knowledge.
you make it sound as if you deserve to have everything just served up to you
Apparently the key word here is "viable."
Posted on 5/17/12 at 8:30 am to Eighteen
quote:I would be surprised if he didn't take a proactive approach to publicizing his sport.
you think Jeff Brown (men's head coach) calls up the local media and tells them to come out and film the matches?
I used to belong to the Bocage Racquet Club and the LSU men's tennis team would regularly hold demonstration intra-squad matches at Bocage's center court. The stands would usually be packed each time. The coach and players would mingle with the fans before and afterwards and would give out free tickets to one of their upcoming matches at LSU. I went several times to watch the men's team play at LSU.
The women's team is a well kept secret.....
Posted on 5/17/12 at 8:48 am to mistert
quote:Confirmed. mistert = TNTNT.
Great Flush by Mr. A-Sleepa AD...
This post was edited on 5/17/12 at 8:49 am
Posted on 5/17/12 at 9:08 am to LSURussian
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I used to belong to the Bocage Racquet Club and the LSU men's tennis team would regularly hold demonstration intra-squad matches at Bocage's center court. The stands would usually be packed each time. The coach and players would mingle with the fans before and afterwards and would give out free tickets to one of their upcoming matches at LSU. I went several times to watch the men's team play at LSU.
The women's team is a well kept secret....
The women's team has done similar type things/clinics/"mixers" out at CCLA. Just b/c it didn't happen at your club doesn't mean it didn't happen at all.
Posted on 5/17/12 at 9:35 am to Roscoe
quote:Did I say it didn't happen at all?
Just b/c it didn't happen at your club doesn't mean it didn't happen at all.
Posted on 5/17/12 at 11:23 am to LSURussian
the "minor" sports have to work hard to get noticed, and I have to say most of the teams at LSU seem to do this- gym does a very good job of promoting (sainstfan22, see I do see some plus' in DeDe, she is very good in promoting the team in the community), I happen to go each year to a few soccer, gym, softball, vball, tennis, track and think they all have worked prety hard. Of course, the SID office can help, but they have limited resources and actually I think our SID and his team are overall A++. I do think faclities is a big part and if you have ever been to UGA or Aub or UF Tennis.swimming you would see how terrible ours are, but what comes first- the team wins and we build nicer or we build nicer so they win? (this is why IMO we all owe Dinardo/Emmeret, others sooo much)
Posted on 5/17/12 at 11:27 am to secman12
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swimming you would see how terrible ours are, but what comes first- the team wins and we build nicer or we build nicer so they win? (this is why IMO we all owe Dinardo/Emmeret, others sooo much)
Recruiting top level recruits is nearly impossible without top of the line facilities. New facilities are needed for both swimming and tennis if they are expected to be legitimate contenders in the best conference in the nation.
Posted on 5/17/12 at 11:40 am to Nashty
Recruiting top level recruits is nearly impossible without top of the line facilities. New facilities are needed for both swimming and tennis if they are expected to be legitimate contenders in the best conference in the nation
well said, I think I agree with this, but then I look at baseball and softball at LSU both had won pretty big while playing in very poor (within SEC) facilities...but I do agree it has to be next to impossible to get a non-LA kid to come here for swimming or tennis unless they want to be a chem engineer or something on academic side we are really good at
well said, I think I agree with this, but then I look at baseball and softball at LSU both had won pretty big while playing in very poor (within SEC) facilities...but I do agree it has to be next to impossible to get a non-LA kid to come here for swimming or tennis unless they want to be a chem engineer or something on academic side we are really good at
Posted on 5/17/12 at 11:48 am to secman12
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but I do agree it has to be next to impossible to get a non-LA kid to come here for swimming or tennis unless they want to be a chem engineer or something on academic side we are really good at
Both swimming and tennis recruit heavily overseas. When these top level recruits from Europe, Australia, and other places around the world search the internet and see how sub-par the facilities are compared to other SEC schools, they have little reason to choose LSU over a Florida, Auburn, or Georgia. I think that with these sports, the new facilities must come before the program starts consistently winning. "If you build it, they will come."
ETA: The overseas recruits usually don't have the opportunity to take recruiting trips to the campus. What they know about the school is largely influenced by what their friends tell them and what they find on the internet. They don't get the opportunity to fall in love with the LSU campus like most of the baseball/softball recruits do. If you look at the top schools in both tennis and swimming, for the most part, they all have top of the line facilities.
This post was edited on 5/17/12 at 11:53 am
Posted on 5/17/12 at 12:05 pm to saintsfan22
It is my understanding that there is a new tennis center being built.
Posted on 5/17/12 at 12:18 pm to MikeTiger4ever
quote:
It is my understanding that there is a new tennis center being built.
Yes, I believe that the plans for the new indoor tennis facility are in the works.
Posted on 5/17/12 at 12:58 pm to quail man
By the way, does anyone else find it weird how short the press release was?
I mean the guy has been a coach for 21 years and Joe cant even give a "thank you" quote...or even a quote at all?
Seems weird to me, maybe it was a bad break
I mean the guy has been a coach for 21 years and Joe cant even give a "thank you" quote...or even a quote at all?
Seems weird to me, maybe it was a bad break
This post was edited on 5/17/12 at 1:10 pm
Posted on 5/17/12 at 1:03 pm to Eighteen
Tony is a great guy. I graduated from high school with him. Always quiet and nice. Never heard anyone say an unpleasant thing about him. I hope he has success with anything he does.
Posted on 5/17/12 at 1:25 pm to quail man
All one needs to do is look at the budgets for all the different sports, and compare them to the budgets at other schools and you will have your answer. Auburn spends three times as much as LSU on smwimming. Is it any surprise that LSU never does anything in swimming? On the other hand, based on its budget compared to other schools, the baseball team is the most underachieving program in the entire athletic department. It has the biggest budget in the nation which is fine. But with twice the budget of the #2 school (Texas) and triple the budget of any other SEC school, shouldn't they more dominant than they are?
Posted on 5/17/12 at 2:07 pm to Nashty
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Both swimming and tennis recruit heavily overseas.
This is very true...however, Louisiana seems to produce a top 20 national junior player every couple of years and, more times than not, those kids will leave the state and go play at other schools where other top kids are going b/c of the programs history and facilities. Build a top facility, and maybe LSU can convince a kid like the Daigle kid from Lafayette or the Mayronne kid from Monroe not to go to a UVa or a UGa if they don't go the pro route. Then, get one or two of those blue-chip in state prospects, and maybe you get some other US prospects to look this way.
As far as the facilities, I'm pretty sure its already been approved by the LSU BOT and we are about 2-3 years away. I remember seeing the drawings for it and it looks pretty nice, and the plans do call for indoor courts as well. However, one drawback is that I think its supposed to be built off-campus on LSU's South Campus off of GSRI. One positive is that I'm pretty certain that plans calls for the facility to be open to public through some sort of membership...if that's the case, will be nice as there are not many indoor courts here in Baton Rouge.
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