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Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:30 am to Tiger2025
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The fact we supported womens bball but not mens blows my mind.
Fans support winners and womens bball wins.
The mens team was well supported once Wade started winning.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 11:05 am to GeauxTigersNC
most likely always will.
--shut yo mouth, "fan"
--shut yo mouth, "fan"
Posted on 2/9/26 at 11:48 am to GeauxTigersNC
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I understand we have had better days in basketball but 3 final 4 appearances in 45 years isn’t exactly anything to post about.
Are your retarded??? Most teams have never been to the final four ONCE in their history much less three times.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 12:16 pm to Sweep Da Leg
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Are your retarded??? Most teams have never been to the final four ONCE in their history much less three times.
There are 300+ schools in D1 basketball. Only 21 have been to more than 4 Final Fours. To narrow it further, within the SEC there are only 5 teams in the SEC who have made it to more than 5 Final Fours. However, of that group, only Kentucky and Florida have made more Final Fours than LSU as a member of the SEC
This notion that LSU has "always sucked" is ridiculous...as is the notion that LSU can "never be good". Alabama wasn't great...until they were. Auburn wasn't great...until they were. Florida wasn't great...until they were.
LSU is bad right now because they have a bad HC. But that doesn't mean that must always be the case
Posted on 2/9/26 at 12:18 pm to bengalfan50
I’m surprised all these people on the rant pretend like they care about MBB so much
Posted on 2/9/26 at 12:25 pm to Alt26
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This whole stupid notion which arose from a PR statement pushed out by the former admin last season that "LSU doesn't spend money or care about MBB" is ridiculous. It's that LSU has a head coach who doesn't want to do what is necessary to get the money and get people to "care".
I'd actually phrase it more like this - If you have a coach whose very success and job largely depends on his ability to promote his product and raise funds to support it - but who does not do that - apathy sets in and the people you need to care ain't gonna care as much if folks aren't pushing back making sure they do.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 12:33 pm to bengalfan50
Athletic Dept , and Joe Aleva , allowed factions to have too much influence and control in recruiting and Coach election .Brady was the last legit Coach we had, not some Water Boy or a guy who couldn't work his way out of a wet paper bag just because he was black
Posted on 2/9/26 at 12:35 pm to GeauxTigersNC
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I actually don’t understand why we have to talk about MBB so much on here. Let me lay it out for you all.
There are about 15-20 of us who really care about men's basketball and this is about the only forum left where we can come and discuss and vent and rant. We take up threads during basketball season - it's our echo chamber - you are free to skip these or better yet start threads on topics you want to discuss with others.
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We are good at WBB so just watch that instead.
I do - I watch both. I don't have the attention span of a 5-year old, I can manage both.
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asketball in general is one of the worst sports to watch besides maybe march madness
Judging from national attendance and ratings - you are in the minority - baseball is far and away less watched, and I say that as someone who watches over 100 baseball games every year, loves it and travels all over country to watch....it's just a fact and a reality.
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If you’re obsessed with MBB and don’t know what to do maybe pick a new team or go down to your local park or ymca and watch them play
Discussing it means obsessed? o.k. I love LSU basketball and always will. You can post on what you are obsessed with and I'll join in if I'm interested and skip if I'm not. Lot's of room on this forum.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 3:10 pm to Tiger Ugly
Some of you people are clowns.No Administration hires a coach and expects to lose.LSUs problem is not finding the right coaches.Millions of dollars are spent on these programs and you think they aren’t trying to win,man we have ignorant fans.Its called bad hires by bad ADs.Thats why JA,SW, are gone.The last AD who knew coaching talent was Bob Broadhead and Dale chased him off.Mark Emmert hired Nick not Joe ,cheapass,Dean.Lets see if Verge and the big donors can find a great MBB coach,the previous 2 couldn’t.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 3:13 pm to Tiger2025
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The fact we supported womens bball but not mens blows my mind
WBB doesn’t have to bow down to Dale Brown and Collis Temple.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 3:16 pm to GeauxTigersNC
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If you’re obsessed with MBB and don’t know what to do maybe pick a new team or go down to your local park or ymca and watch them play
It’s not about obsession as much as it’s just not a good, competitive product. Every other school seemingly has invested in MBB and LSU has not found its footing. They need a name coach to spark interest from donors and recruits.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 4:28 pm to Tangineck
quote:even if true, it is no requirement to compete. All you need at LSU is one strong OOC win and .500 in conference; that's it. And RN we aren't scratching that.
I highly doubt LSU is looking to pay elite players.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 7:12 am to RGT
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Some of you people are clowns.No Administration hires a coach and expects to lose.LSUs problem is not finding the right coaches.Millions of dollars are spent on these programs and you think they aren’t trying to win,man we have ignorant fans.Its called bad hires by bad ADs.Thats why JA,SW, are gone.The last AD who knew coaching talent was Bob Broadhead and Dale chased him off.Mark Emmert hired Nick not Joe ,cheapass,Dean.Lets see if Verge and the big donors can find a great MBB coach,the previous 2 couldn’t.
As this was posted as a reply to my post I feel compelled to say I'm not sure this is related to anything in my post....but you seem to be saying that it's saying it's not because admins don't care, it's because they are bad or stupid AD's making the calls? I would agree to some extent, but I'll add that the degree to which they care is directly related to how much the fan base cares and when the fan base is ambivalent, like they are for men's hoops right now, it's easier not to care as much. That's just human nature.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 7:25 am to alessic7
Such a good post.
Many people don't realize the money spent on THIS team is enough to have a quality team. If they play like they are capable of against SC and MSU we would be right on the bubble with plenty of opportunities left.
Hell you can add in if they don't blow an 18 point lead in the second half vs UK we would probably be a 10 seed right now. It's so easy to make the tournament now it's a laughable that we can't even make it close.
It's all coaching, JUST HIRE A GOOD COACH.
Many people don't realize the money spent on THIS team is enough to have a quality team. If they play like they are capable of against SC and MSU we would be right on the bubble with plenty of opportunities left.
Hell you can add in if they don't blow an 18 point lead in the second half vs UK we would probably be a 10 seed right now. It's so easy to make the tournament now it's a laughable that we can't even make it close.
It's all coaching, JUST HIRE A GOOD COACH.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 8:23 am to GeauxTigersNC
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Basketball in general is one of the worst sports to watch besides maybe march madness
This is just flat out, wrong.
A big time men’s basketball game in the PMAC is awesome.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 8:30 am to OchoDedos
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Brady was the last legit Coach we had
Talk about revisionist history. Brady spent the entirety of his LSU career on the verge of begin fired, only to pull out a great season to avoid it, then return right back to the bottom of the league.
His first two seasons (albeit under actual difficult circumstances) LSU was a last place team. Then, he finishes T-1st in the SEC and makes a Sweet 16 run. The next year? Back to the bottom. He had a three year mediocre period after that where he was in that "just good enough" to keep his job territory, before a couple of really good years in 05 and 06. Then, you guessed it, immediately back to the bottom.
The Final Four clouds everyone's thinking. Brady wasn't a great coach.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 8:49 am to Tiger2025
quote:There's a practical aspect to this, to be fair. LSU needs to look interested in Title IX and women's sports.
The fact we supported womens bball but not mens blows my mind.
Women's basketball is the premier sport for the ladies. In this point of view, it's not equivalent to men's basketball, it's the equivalent to football- which we are all in on.
We don't put much emphasis on men's basketball, but we do load up for baseball; which is a sport only a few others do.
LSU probably has so much allocated to each gender's sports, so adding to men's basketball would likely pull from football or baseball (or other men's sports), instead of from the women's side.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 1:04 pm to Scoob
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LSU probably has so much allocated to each gender's sports, so adding to men's basketball would likely pull from football or baseball (or other men's sports), instead of from the women's side.
IMHO we need to quit keeping score of who gets what and pimping our favorite sport at the expense of all others, and find a way to be better than any other school at finding a way to make every sport great.
Somebody has to be better at it than anyone else, why not us?
Posted on 2/10/26 at 1:33 pm to Tiger Ugly
quote:That sounds nice and all, but men's basketball will need NIL investment to truly become good again. Women's, not so much.
IMHO we need to quit keeping score of who gets what and pimping our favorite sport at the expense of all others, and find a way to be better than any other school at finding a way to make every sport great.
Somebody has to be better at it than anyone else, why not us?
As much NIL as is spent, we still have an overall limit to how much the donors will spend. Do you want to cut back some in football (unlikely), or drop back some in baseball? Especially now that MLB is talking about removing high school players from the draft? Those guys are going to command a lot of money.
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