re: Women's basketball only had 7 players on the roster today

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Original and thought-provoking. That reference has NEVER been made in a women's basketball thread, like ever. Thanks for breaking new ground

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Did you get a doctor to tighten your a-hole? Or is it just natural?

Good thing Nikki still brings her own fashion show to every game, because there sure isn't anything else to look at !

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So attrition has only been an issue in 2 of 5 seasons.

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What's been the issue the rest of the time?

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Fold up shop and dump more $ into men's basketball

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Might be nice, but there are equity issues--I think NCAA requires there to be some sort of balance between men's and women's sports. If you take away a women's sport, one men's would have to be ceased. Although LSU doesn't have a sanctioned women's football team, there is another team for women that balances out the sports...I don't have the time to check it out, but there's something at LSU that "equals" football.

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I appreciate your well thought out response, but the person who posted that suggestion wasn't serious....

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But you never can tell by some of the responses on the Rant that some haven't had frontal lobotomies...

Per ESPN, she has not recruited a top 25 class in the last 4 years. That tells you all you need to know about her recruiting abilities and the direction of the program.

If we are down to 7 players, the injury excuse doesn't add up. If there are 4 players missing, you should still have 11.

Time to wake up. We are spending a lot of money for this coach (over $750,000). We can do about the same with paying another jack leg far less.

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If we are down to 7 players, the injury excuse doesn't add up. If there are 4 players missing, you should still have 11.

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Huh?

She had 13 scholarship players on the roster during the summer...kicked one off to leave 12 total.

Since then: 1 quit school in October, 2 season ending surgeries in November and currently one is out with a sprained ankle and one is out with illness.

The math isn't that hard. Had 12, 1 left and 4 are hurt, down to 7.

And don't come with "well, she should have more than 12 players to begin with". Very few coaches will carry 13-15 players. It is impossible to keep them all happy. Most rosters have 11-12 scholarship players.

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You aren't going to convince her white knight to believe anything is wrong with this program.

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Look back at previous posts....I have said on several occasions that she should get next year to try to win with the returning players plus the transfers who will be eligible, and if it doesn't work out, then she should find employment elsewhere. I would not say that I am 100% happy with the talent level here...I think her recruiting hasn't been as great as I thought it would be.

That having been said, if this year's team was intact, it would have been an NCAA team, her 5th in 5 years. I don't think you can lay it at the feet of the coach that she had to kick the best player off the team during the summer, one kid flaked out and quit school, and 4 got hurt. Hell, I almost give her credit for getting rid of Ballard. A LOT of coaches would have figured out a way to keep her around.

Well, here are few things that aren't hard to understand.

LSU wasn't smelling the top 25 this year even with all those players missing.

LSU has never smelled the top 25 in recruiting in the last 4 years.

"Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining". We know better. We have seen 5 Final Fours in a row. I know an elite team when I see one. This ain't even close to being an elite team. For Christ's sake, we lost to Samford not Stanford.

Interesting perspective.

I don't think Fargas is as good a coach as Chatman is. So let's just lay that right there. However, I can vividly remember that after having taken the team to three straight final fours, Chatman wanted a raise from her $400K/year salary in '06 and Skip didn't want to give it to her. Funny how things work out, ain't it?

With that being said, I don't think anyone is making "excuses". However, what I thin IS being pointed out is that this particular season is not an indicator of how her entire five season tenure has been at LSU. And THAT seems to be what many on this thread are saying. That is.............."this team is horrible so she needs to be fired".............when in reality, this is her first losing season since she's been here. I don't think she's got the program where we wanted it to be at this point, but it's certainly not as bad as many on this thread seem to want to believe.