While I'm happy for gymnastics and their success...

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Games in the PMAC used to be a fun event, now it's barely out drawing an intramural quiddich matches.

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It's simple, people don't like attending funerals. It's only a fun event if it's fun to watch.

Was thinking about this earlier. We went from tailgating before the Oklahoma game last year to this shite. fricking disgrace.

ETA: people were actually holding up fingers outside the PMAC looking for tickets. That's how far we've fallen in a year.

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It's fricking pathetic how badly it's out drawing basketball.

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Not when you consider how much better the product is. Better teams deserve better crowds.

Hopefully with a new coach next year, there's always the down transition year, but new energy is on the way.

Bad team plus, like it or not, most folk here don't care about basketball. I sure don't.

The culture of basketball needs to change.

No knock to gymnastics. Never watched before but I like to see LSU athletics do well no matter the sport.....
But when gymnastics draws a bigger crowd than basketball.... it's time to do a little self reflection. Come on Alleva/JJ. Get your heads out of your asses

How can't they see the crowd gymnastics bring to the PMAC... Basketball is the most popular college sport aside from football....all you have to do is put a competitive team out there. We don't even have to win it all. The final four run we had in 06 (I believe) was so much fun. I was disappointed UCLA knocked us out, but it was still an awesome run. We had a crazy buzzer beater against A&M and then knocked Duke out

But shite all I want at this point is to see some form of a team on the court. We look like a damn street court team of 5 random people playing for shits and giggles.

I played on a talentless high school team for four years and we won plenty of games against teams with more talent. We had a coach who made us practice things like half-court offensive sets in which players would move around the court setting screens for other players who didn't have the ball, eventually resulting in an open shot for our best shooters or an open layup depending on the set.

We didn't have the height, length or athleticism to defend many if not most of the teams we played, so we practiced a full-court press, and several different full and half-court traps designed to force turnovers which led to easy baskets and prevented the opponents from setting up their offense, which if executed would easily have been successful because of the aforementioned talent gap.

We were a large private school where in my four years in the program had three players who played in college, one was a 6'9 senior who graduated my freshman year. I was one - NAIA school guard on academic acholarship - until my partying cost me my scholarship after 1.5 years and I transferred to LSU (and didn't play there). The other was an LSU legacy player. He was a 4-year end-of-the bench player who if I'm not mistaken played in one game and scored one layup his entire career at LSU.

Bottom line, we weren't good, yet we won because of decent coaching.

I'm pretty confident I could do a better job coaching this team than the current head coach, and I have no experoencexperience coaching basketball. It's clear watching his team play that the stuff I learned in junior high and high school is foreign to Johnny Jones, and that the team will be improved no matter who is hired to replace him if that person has any basketball knowledge whatsoever.

He's 0-2 with Trent factored in

But hey, sure, let's let him have another shot. I mean, third times a charm right?