re: What’s the Rants opinion on Dale Brown?

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Man we could be cousins. My Dad flew to Philly to the Final 4 and came home telling us that Dale Brown was just slightly less arrogant than Bobby Knight.

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Don't blame the Philly losses on Dale. Blame them on me. I had 3 starters in my room a lot doing things that well, would have been frowned upon, and prevented them from playing. So, they weren't their normal selves.

RIP Cookie Man. Camden was fun wasnt it?

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And over time we learned that he couldn't coach for shite

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2nd all time winningest coach in SEC history. Behind only Adolph Rupp, but by all means, re-write history.

I still remember that 1985 Sports Illustrated cover story:
"Hello, Trouble, I'm Dale Brown"

You had to take the good with the bad with him. When Pistol Pete left LSU the program was in the tank. Dale took it to height of SEC basketball in 1981. I think he got cocky after that. On one hand he got John Williams from Los Angeles, but then some of his recruiting classes were horrible. He really believed he could win with any scrub team. After Shaq, Roberts and Chris Jackson he made one more recruiting run with Livingston and Henderson. Those teams never panned out, (Livingston’s injury did suck), then the Lester Earl saga really sunk the program.

Dale is LSU basketball.

I was at LSU during the Chris Jackson, Shaq and Dale Brown years. I have so many good memories memories of LSU basketball from that era so it’s hard for me to hate on Coach Brown.

With that said, and without proof, I got the sneaking suspicion that Dale Brown and crew were lobbying the administration to jettison Coach Wade. Wade was on the verge of creating an LSU basketball legacy that would have overshadowed the Dale Brown era. Dale’s ego would not be able to handle that.

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I always thought Dale Brown was a great motivator but a just OK basketball coach.

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There was a critical game versus Mississippi State i vaguely remember and the cameras were in the coaches box for both teams. During a critical timeout towards the end of the game Dale was giving a rah rah speech and Mississippi State coach was communicating defensive Xs and Os to this team.

Mississippi State won.


It confirmed everyone’s notion at the time; great recruiter, very good motivator but incredibly shitty Xs and Os coach.

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There was a critical game versus Mississippi State i vaguely remember and the cameras were in the coaches box for both teams. During a critical timeout towards the end of the game Dale was giving a rah rah speech and Mississippi State coach was communicating defensive Xs and Os to this team. Mississippi State won. It confirmed everyone’s notion at the time; great recruiter, very good motivator but incredibly shitty Xs and Os coach.

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I would argue that if the players don’t grasp the X’s and O’s by that point, then they’re screwed to begin with. At that juncture, it’s about motivating them to properly execute the X’s and O’s that they should already know.

Dale did a phenomenal job building up the LSU brand and put us on the map in college basketball. He won SEC championships, NCAA tournament games, but didn’t quite get us that big trophy.

Unfortunately he stayed too long and the program decayed over his last four years. We have never fully recovered although there have been several instances where it appeared we might. Johnson won a title, Brady went to the FF, and Wade won a title.
None of their successes could be substained.

Naming the court after Dale was strictly political. He wasn’t in Skip’s class and Skip set the bar for naming venues.

Overrated as frick.

Great recruiter, awful coach. Neither him nor Gunter deserve to have the court named after them.