re: Naming the court after a coach with zero titles was embarrassing to begin with

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Naming the court after a coach with zero titles was embarrassing to begin with

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Rob from Lafourche

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Are all people from Lafourche stupid arse mother frickers, or are you just their go to guy?

Heres a list of people LSU athletic facilities or statues have been named after. Tell me how many titles for LSU that they have won combined?

Alex Box
Dub Robinson
Carl Maddox
John Parker
Pete Maravich
Seimone Augustus
Shaq
Sue Gunter

And yet Dale Brown is the embarrassing one. because he didnt win a title?

Idiot

Three coaches changed LSU sports history : Nick Saban, Skip Bertman, and Dale Durwood Brown. You girls are idiots.

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All courts dedicated to coaches who never won a national championship.

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This is the one that gets me. Eddie Sutton is known as much for Arkansas and Kentucky as for Oklahoma State. And while he was there awhile and made the NCAA tourney a lot, he won a conference title twice in about 20 years.

Brown, at least, won the SEC 4 times.

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Three coaches changed LSU sports history : Nick Saban, Skip Bertman, and Dale Durwood Brown. You girls are idiots.

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Putting Dale Brown’s name in the same sentence as those other 2 is hilarious and embarrassing.

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Dale doesn't measure up to those, but I'd say he does match up well with Cholly Mac.

It was a different era; the SEC was not a basketball powerhouse. Until Arkansas entered the league, the only national power in the conference was Kentucky.

And you don't become elite in basketball only by winning a title; Kentucky only has 8. North Carolina, only 6. Kansas has 4.
You do it by winning your conference and making Final Fours; Dale did that while being the only SEC program to give Kentucky problems for awhile.

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I’m neither a big fan or critic but still appreciate him being the only guy who made LSU a consistent winner over 100 years. My grandfather hated him along with that generation, but I’d kill for that consistency. It’s what made pear so amazing, even if he underachieved at times. I think he’d have won big if the investigations wouldn’t have blocked him from hiring actual assistants and not bag men

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I am 54 years old so I grew up watching the highest point of Dale's years and watched his decline. I also watched the Wade years and what the hardcore Wade supporters and worshippers refuse to understand and accept is that Dale Brown and Will Wade are literally the same coach. Both were great recruiters, both were high energy types who pumped the students and fans up. Both snubbed their noses at and taunted the NCAA. Both cheated like there was no tomorrow. The difference was that Dale had bag men that could never connect Dale to anything as hard as they tried. Wade was too arrogant and thought he was smarter than they were but he got caught. It took the NCAA 25 years to find anything on Dale.

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But you don't need to name the court after anyone. Leave it unnamed unless someone's accomplishments are so phenomenal that naming the court after him is just obvious.

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My feelings exactly. Some would argue Dale IS that guy.

Vitale has been blabbering on the last 10 years what a "Travesty" it is that the court had not been named after Dale yet. I've had relatives and friends express the same sentiment to me.

When they would ask if I agreed I would always say that I was ambivalent - that I had no strong feeling one way or the other and if it never happened, I'd be perfectly o.k. and if it did happen I would not lose sleep.

I can tell you I'll never say when going to a game - I'm going to see the game today at Dale Brown Court or Brown/Gunter Court or whatever. I'll say I'm going to the PMAC.

Hell, it wasn’t just Shaq. It was also Chris Jackson the best PG in the country and Big Stanley Roberts. Dale Brown & Joe Hall had a contest on who could do less with the most. Dale won. Barely

Says the 86 team who went to the final 4.