Mulkey is like Daddy Dale was, a street fighter.....

Maybe in. one respect. But Mulkey is a far superior coach who runs a disciplined program.

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Except Mulkey can actually coach basketball.

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It's such a stupid groupthink narrative that Dale couldn't coach. You don't win as many games as he did by not being able to coach. NO COACH at the major college basketball level can just simply roll the ball out on to the floor and let the players just do whatever they wanted. Now, that doesn't mean he was quite on the level of guys like Knight, Smith, Pitino, Krzyzewski, Williams, etc. Which is why he couldn't quite get LSU over the last hurdle. But it's ridiculous to say the guy who retired with the second most SEC wins to Adolph Rupp did so simply because the great players he recruited did everything on their own for well over a decade.

Dale is not a pimple on Kim’s arse

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Dale had some pretty good assistant coaches to compensate for his weaknesses.

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Ron Abernathy, Johnny Jones, and everyone's favorite compliance officer, Bo Bahansen?

Abernathy was hired to get Rudy Macklin. And I don't think any LSU fan would argue Jones and Bahansen were top their assistants (though there were others during Brown's tenure that were). Dale wasn't the absolute best coach in the SEC, or the nation. But you don't win almost 450 games and go to 10 straight NCAA Tournaments by just getting lucky

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Same could be said about da Coach O, but neither were great with X's and O's

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He had one outlier season in a career of bad to mediocre results.

Dale took LSU basketball from the graveyard to 2 Final Fours....wise up dummies.

Dale was never half the coach Mulkey is . Nice try though . Dale is a terrible person also , Mulkey doesn’t seem to be that either .

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Ron Abernathy, Johnny Jones, and everyone's favorite compliance officer, Bo Bahansen?

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I would say he's speaking more about the Homer Drew's, Art Tolis, Rick Huckaby, Tex Winter and Craig Carse types.

I'll give you this Alt, to your earlier point, Dale could coach better than most give credit, the issue for me always was he had such broad and far reaching motives and interests and basketball and technical basketball was not always at the top of that list for him. His attention span did not always lend itself to drilling down on the minutia. His causes, which were many and varied and sometimes out there took up a lot of his time.

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I'll give you this Alt, to your earlier point, Dale could coach better than most give credit, the issue for me always was he had such broad and far reaching motives and interests and basketball and technical basketball was not always at the top of that list for him. His attention span did not always lend itself to drilling down on the minutia. His causes, which were many and varied and sometimes out there took up a lot of his time.

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Brown ABSOLUTELY made his share of dumb coaching decisions, which is why he, to some degree, failed to reach the full potential of some talented teams. But the hyperbolic narrative that has developed that he couldn't coach at all is stupid. It's the same groupthink narrative said about Wade...with no actual substance to support it.

I don't care what school you're at. You don't consistently win a lot of games by not being able to coach.

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It's the same groupthink narrative said about Wade...with no actual substance to support it.

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Groupthink is rampant and only getting worse and it stretches across all life spectrums.

As for Dale, he is a complicated man and I've discussed and debated about everything there is about the man as he was the coach for the first 25 years of my life as an avid LSU basketball fan - one of the few who still is. I lived it and know and remember a lot Re: Dale. He's always an interesting subject, I'll give him that.

How many songs have been written about Mulkey's teams?

Who Dat