richmond tiger

we certainly have a shot...the SEC is pretty weak this season outside of florida and mizzou, who are top 10. Ky is not even ranked. LSU has had an RPI around 30 so far, which is excellent. We have get to get some quality road wins. That will be the key. We need at least 2 or 3 good road wins to have a shot and need to beat Mizzou or Florida. That could be the recipe for a bid !

In Trents first year in 2009, we won the SEC and beat Butler in the NCAA tourney...the next two years Butler made it all the way to the NCAA Championship game. The loss that year in the 2nd round was against North Carolina in Greensboro. It may as well have been a road game. I was there..maybe 200 LSU fans total.if Ty Lawson does not come off the bench and have a great 2nd half, we are on to the sweet 16. We gave UNC their best game in the tourney by far that season. Hurricane Katrina really hurt LSU basketball. we would have had D.J. Augustine at point (he went to texas). Losing Greg Monroe to Georgetown really hurt a lot.

Trent just did not run the style of play that a lot of kids like to play these days..run and fast break..so we didnt get a lot of really good athletes under him. Plus we lost Justin Hamilton to the NBA or we could have been really good this season. No one saw that coming. With Justin and Johnny and Shavon we would have had a really solid front line.

the incoming recruiting class will be the best one since we signed Shaq and Stanley Roberts and Mo Williamson and Harold Boudreaux and Randy Devall...Johnny will get it done...just be patient with him.

There was stuff that happened last year and the year before but Trent ran a very tight ship and he was very tight lipped. The coaches did a good job of keeping things under wraps. I was tight with one of the assistants and TJ believed in not going public with kids issues and keeping them private. That was just Trents way. he just kept things quiet and handled everything internally. Hopefully Hickey will figure it out before its too late.

Went to the Swamp in '04 when Addai scored with 30 seconds left and we won 24-21. We were trailing the whole game and got the ball back around midfield with about 90 seconds left. Marcus randall engineered a great drive and Addai picked up almost all of the yards including the last 10 on a screen pass. We had a lot of fun and no problems at all plus florida gives LSU/away teams good seats - no upper deck nosebleeds like at auburn !

we still have a shot. His camp is quiet. Texas and Bama lead but Bama has two front court commits already for the following year. The other 3 schools i hear he is looking at are: LSU, Mizzou and Georgetown.

We live in the near West end off 64. Many LSU grads have moved up here for work the past 10 years. Yes i like Richmond a lot and love Va. 90 miles to D.C. 90 miles to Ocean. 70 miles to mountains. 45 minutes to Williamsburg (2 great amusement parks in busch gardens and water country). We Get all 4 seasons and no traffic at all. Economy is good here. Schools are very good and not much crime. Easy to get anywhere on east coast in just a few hours. 4 hours to Philly. 4 hours to Charlotte. 3 hours to outer banks & great ocean spots there. 5 hours to myrtle beach. I love it !

As previously said - alex kline from recruit scoop is the source for the swilling commitment.

if we get odoh then he will play the 5 and JOB the 4 and pollard/coleman at the 3. Hammink can def play the point and backup hickey at that spot. We would be 2 deep at every position except center if we can land Odoh or Trocha.

no question that we would take both pollard and odoh. scholarships are only year to year now. The one advantage with courtney is that we can play him at the 4 if need be. Right now the way things stand we still have very little depth up front. Eddie can play a few minutes here and there but we have to have at least one more post player. two would be great but we need at least one more. If god forbid JOB or Godfrey gets hurt suddenly you are looking at basically a 4 guard lineup out there for some stretches of the game. Thats what killed us this year after JOB got hurt, Storm and Malcolm both were foul prone and sometimes Justin was by himself up front. No way you dont take both pollard and odoh if you can get them both.

I pretty much always knew where our coaches were because coach scott texted me regularly but out of respect for them and Trent not wanting people to know who they were recruiting i never posted anything on here about it. Scott was recently at the juco tourney in Hutchinson for 2 days and trent went to spain to visit with Geert and Shane right after the season ended. Coach Scott went to Pennsylvania to see Shane's team play last year. coach scott spent A LOT of time on the road recruiting. Thats how we got Johnny O'Bryant. the last year he spent a lot of time recruting Gathers. He really thought we were going to get him :(

there is a big kid up near here who can help next year. he is a senior. Good grades - just needs test score. I tried to get the previous coaching staff to come look at him but they never followed through. they would not even call his high school coach. he is not listed anywhere on espn, rivals or scout so i am not posting his name because he is under the radar. He ia a lot like Dieng, the center for louisville. Can anyone get Johnny to email me or call me - 804-502-3334 or wavevcu@yahoo.com ?

yes was recruited as a football player but chose hoops. he averaged 18 points per game as a sr. at scotlandville leading them to state championship his sr year. has 2 years of eligibility and can play right away.