re: PC Police influencing BOS to already rename Dale Brown court

It's crazy Sue Gunter died at 66. She looked like she was 90. Smoking fricks you up.

Why ? Dale brown was not all that. Yah so he got to the final four a couple times ok no big deal. Dale Brown was a fantastic recruiter just unbeleivable recruiter much like coach Will Wade. Will wade could guide a half decent season and once in the post season look amost flat at times same as Dale Brown. The lsu facilities suck in basketball compared to other universities but all the athletic directors dont want anything to do with upgrading the basketball arena, offices and anything dealing with basketball. Once upgrade i really think lsu will make a drastix improvement in results to compete in final 4s and have a chance at it, winning sec seasons multiple years in a row, & conference chpionships. Have yet to see that.

I’ll 100% support renaming the basketball court to the first men’s or women’s basketball coach to win a national championship at LSU.

Kramer’s mom, make it happen.

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Dale Brown was BLM before the movement ever was conceived.

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He coordinated riots that burned down black businesses and killed more unarmed black people in 3 months than police did for the entire year of 2020? Then took all their donations and bought million dollar homes with them?

Even in its short 5 year (or so) heyday the popularity of the program paled in comparison to the popularity of Brown's program at its peak. Hell, you could argue Pokey Chatman deserves her name on the court moreso than Gunter given her accomplishments as a player and coach. She led LSU to 3 Final Fours (although one was as a midseason replacement for Gunter). Of course, that isn't going to happen.

I didn't like naming the court after Brown in the first place (though if LSU was going to name the court after anyone, it should be him). So I find all of this funny and ridiculous in our current era of vapid virtue signaling.

Lesson: There is a small, but very vocal, faction of our population that will ALWAYS look for something about which to be offended or aggrieved, and reasons to display their immense "virtue". Knowing that, you have three options:

1. Don't do anything to give them a basis to virtue signal in the first place (i.e. don't name the court/facility after any person)

2. Tell them to essentially "frick off" and completely ignore them. They'll publicly whine and cry for a bit, while also expressing empty threats. But eventually they will just move on to the next "wrong" to "right".

3. Give into the demands. Which is only going to set the table for more and more such demands. There is no fully satisfying such people...ever.


The good news for LSU in this instance is they currently have a women's HC who doesn't give much of a shite about virtue-signaling (at least in this regard); is already 10x more accomplished in her career than Sue Gunter; and is pretty confident that she will eventually surpass all of Gunter's accomplishments to largely make this a non-issue in the future.

Two wrongs don't make a right.
Neither of these two won the whole thing and neither is deserving for other reasons
They both did a lot of good things and created some great memories, but you don't give naming rights on that basis.
We should rescind the naming for Brown in the first place and we can avoid future disputes like this.
And, Brown's statement (while claiming to NOT make a statement) that Gunter already had a statute is just totally embarrassing. His ego knows no bounds.

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Two wrongs don't make a right.
Neither of these two won the whole thing and neither is deserving for other reasons
They both did a lot of good things and created some great memories, but you don't give naming rights on that basis.
We should rescind the naming for Brown in the first place and we can avoid future disputes like this.

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While I don't disagree, rescinding it would be even more embarrassing and also give credence to the demands of the perpetually aggrieved.

LSU named it after Brown. I, personally, may have disagreed with the decision to do so. But it is done. Let it be and ignore the VERY small group of belly-achers (which is really just the media, such as a fledgling publication like Tiger Rag) looking for attention. They will soon conjure up some other "wrong" in their quest for attention.

Hold off a few years and it will be Mulkey-Brown court.

I agree with this:

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I didn't like naming the court after Brown in the first place (though if LSU was going to name the court after anyone, it should be him). So I find all of this funny and ridiculous in our current era of vapid virtue signaling.

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1947-72

288-344 46%
9 winning seasons
2 AP ranked seasons, 1 top 10
2 NCAA tournaments(smaller tourney, can't really compare)

1972 - 97 (Dale Brown)

448-301 60%
17 winning seasons
7 AP ranked seasons, 3 top 10
13 NCAA tournaments (including 10 in a row) 2 final fours

1997 -2022

462-334 58%
18 winning seasons
4 AP ranked teams, 1 top 10
9 NCAA tournaments, 1 final 4

I grew up watching Pete in the cow palace but outside of that one player (and 3 years of Bob Petit) LSU basketball was insignificant. Dale Brown brought us to national recognition. I never thought he was a great coach but he clearly did more for LSU basketball than any other individual.

In my humble opinion, Sue was a very nice person but not a great coach. There was not a lot of girls competition back then.