Tiger Ugly

I was speaking in particular in regard to fund raising. There are folks who do give money to softball and no other sport....it's true.

And that's not obvious - some folks still to this day seem to think the only $$ our sports teams get is from the $20 Mil Nil allotment doled out from a general fund - which is I know hard to understand but nonetheless it's a fact.

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If LSU is going to keep Beth, shut down all NIL money and direct it to football or men's basketball.

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I have no idea the dynamics of the softball program, but I imagine they, like other sports have cultivated their own base of fans some of which have particular interest in softball for whatever reason and donate to the softball program. No idea how much I'd be willing to bet there are some.

Like all sports each coach has to cultivate their own donor base. Outside of football no sport is going to get as much as they want from the $20 Million NIL pie. Beth and whoever comes after her will have to do that work - like every other softball coach in the SEC and whoever does it best will get the best players.

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I think they're uncomfortable.

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I don't find them any more or less uncomfortable that the previous design - the comfort level is fine for me, I just...as I indicated earlier, find it makes it VERY difficult for people to pass me in the aisle with this new design as the folks in front of me have one too and it really is a pain to pass to and fro....that was not nearly much a problem as with the previous design.

I'm guessing if there was not chairbacks in front of us it might be a bit less of a pain but it really was an issue last year. But there are. Folks are constantly apologizing for getting up to go to the bathroom or coming back because they know there's going to be some uncomfortable wrestling to get by.

I send an e-mail of complaint after every game. There certainly must be something they can do with the design to make this less of an issue - hell I know they can the previous design was not near this much of a problem in this regard.

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he couldn't hit free throws. remember Hack a Shaq?

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Yeah, but they really didn't start doing that his freshman year.

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EARL HAMMICK

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Geert I'm sure you mean, was almost unplayable at that point of his career, he got much better later.

Vernel Singleton was on that team much more fits your narrative.

Or Maurice Williamson, he was very talented.

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It wasn’t Dale Brown. He was a great coach

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I think it's all relative - Dale gave me some great memories of basketball and was a fantastic motivator and recruiter - those things are part of coaching and those are two things he was good at. He had a couple of teams that really overachieved according to their talent and got kids to come to LSU that for the most part did not in the past.

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He beat teams that had more talent than LSU for over a decade.

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I would argue that for the span from 1978-79 to 90-91 - you could argue LSU could compare talent-wise over that span with the vast majority of teams in College hoops - so for half his career his talent level matched up very well.

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He coached a GREAT game against the Indiana team that won by one point. That Indiana team had twice the talent and we almost beat them.

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You are correct here, we had no business even being in that game, that run in the tourney was Dale's finest hour. But he cost his team the game going four corners with the 9-point lead, I'll argue that till the cows come home.

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he greatest game I’ve ever attended was in the superdome vs. Georgetown.

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That was fun, I was there as well.

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Will wade has to win a lot of SEC championships to catch up. He won’t be able to in my opinion

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WW took over a pretty bad situation and did much better than Dale did in their respective first 5 years. And his SEC title in a much tougher SEC was one more than Dale got in his first 5.

Saying Dale was a strong contributing factor in why LSU never one a Natty when Shaq was here is not an unreasonable statement. It can be argued here certainly - and several have. Dale had his strengths and Dale had his faults - but it was never boring we can say that.

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I remember that season well. This was during an era when the top teams had returning players for their third and fourth years. Shaq was a true freshman and was not as much of an offensive threat as he would later become. Stanley was a redshirt freshman and was pretty good for a redshirt freshman.. The bottom line is that team had not yet had time to gel into the team it could have become if they had stayed together for 3 years.

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I would make an argument that the 84-85 team was the most talented and deepest team Dale had - with a good mix of youth and experience. The Shaq/CJ/Stanley team was had more raw top end talent but that 84-85 team was deeper and more balanced in talent and experience.

Blanton, Ollie Brown, Dennis Brown, Jerry Reynolds, Don Redden, Derrick Taylor, John Williams, Jose Vargas, Nikita Wilson, Anthony Wilson, Damon Vance, Ocie Conley and Joe Johnson.

The team finished 19-10 and 13-5 in the SEC winning the conference, but lost in the quarters of the SEC tourney then got bounced unceremoniously as a 4-seed by David Robinson and Navy by 25 points in the first round.

In fact, after that year and the year before when we lost to Dayton in disappointing fashion with another talent-laden team Dale was starting to get a rep for underachieving, he had lost in the first round at home in the NIT to Tulane and UNO in embarrassing fashion the previous two years to the Dayton loss.

The two year run in 86 and 87 to the Final Four and elite 8 reversed that trend, but after that Dale never made it past the second round of the tourney, losing in the first round 4 of the last 6 times Dale's teams made the tourney.

the biggest difference in my mind is - outside of maybe Arkansas - none of the rest of those fan bases really GAF....anywhere near what the LSU fan base does.

If it gets me the basketball title I've been wanting all my life I'll take the every other sport. I've seen 3 in football in my lifetime so give me that basketball title.

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In general people everywhere take too long to get their stuff out of the overhead are slow and unorganized.

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Yes and that absolutely irritates me more than I guess it should, but it just does.

I'm one of those on schedule on time guys and things that unnecessarily throw that off schedule because of sheer lack of common courtesy and respect for others.........it just ticks me off.