Burnt ROUX: JJ Thomas and Raymone Andrews suspended indefinitely

[APragincajun]

Oh k, def wasnt me, im actually a huge fam of marlins

The person in here telling us that the world is going to end and that Bob Marlin is the shepherd guiding us all to the gates of hell.

[CajunCherokee]

Not a big deal???? put ur feet in the shoes of the players and staff , ur comimg off the most disappointing loss of the season right before the conference tourny,and another distraction , yes this program is goinna be fine because the direction is still positive, i worked under coach lee for 3 years and i worked under coach marlin for a year, so.trust me, tgings like tgis put a damper on the players, me saying i feel bad for the program is just saying i hate this happened, without pointing any fingers are chosing blame because i refuse to , And i never once made it seem like this program.was "shriveling" away, just stating how i feel

One loss doesn't mean anything. Marlin guided this team to a winning season. Saints lost to the Rams. It happens. And learn how to type coherently. It makes you seem unintelligent.

[MelRock]

You know something if you can't support a coach this early on why even have a coach. Let the players run the program and save the money on the coach. Let's see how many people show up for the game. You might as well put tractor pulls in the Cajundome.

[Hudsheen#Fired]

Marlin should have "benched" (at least for part of a game) theme when lack of effort or attitude was first noticed ... which was sometime ago.

This has been building for some time, and no disciplinary action until now?

The team is handicapped for the tournament, but maybe some new stars will shine.

How do we know Marlin didnt bench them multiple times already?
Marlin easily could have benched JJ a couple of times, we may never know

[Cajunsmike]

To quote Pachino in one of the Godfather movies."Every time I try to quit they keep pulling me back in." I don't care about the spanish league, but there wasn't anybody on the court Saturday that's good enough to play in Iceland, Finland, Bosnia, Poland, or even Greenland for that matter. Now, I hate to be a bubble buster, but this team reached a point of critical mass last year at 3-14 by Marlin's own admission. This year, I think these guys felt more ownership of the team & possibly tried to advise him of their thoughts. If he had zero use for them, then he should not have recruited the guys that he recruited. I think these guys saw themselves having a chance to make a run at the conference tournament, but were hoping to make some adjustments? We will see though. If you guys are fishing in the right spot, the team will make a run, Elfrid will play well, & all is good. I will gladly apologize as having had it all wrong. If they suck & get blown out by 20 or more, then this team is in a lot of trouble & this coach could be finished here.

No matter the outcome of Sunday's game, Coach Marlin will lead the basketball program here for quite awhile.

[Bandwagon King]

You know something if you can't support a coach this early on why even have a coach. Let the players run the program and save the money on the coach. Let's see how many people show up for the game. You might as well put tractor pulls in the Cajundome.

Can it dude. He ran off two early on last year & nobody even uttered a peep. This is the second time in two years & one of them is his own ball of mush. Three times is gonna be a damn habbit & not a good one either. The biggest part of recruiting is selling your program. Who in the hell you gonna sell it to, if you're always running people off.

[raginsaints]

No one made a big deal about it last year because Batiste and Wallace weren't good.

[Cajunsmike]

Fear the beard was not on senior night. It was the 2nd to last game of the season on a Sat. night against WKU. Senior night was the following Thursday against Denver.

[Bandwagon King]

No matter the outcome of Sunday's game, Coach Marlin will lead the basketball program here for quite awhile.

That's all well & fine. But you have to get players to win. Evidently Marlin thought enough of the Thomas name to want two of them at one time. Now we can argue about right & wrong & who's what for a while & everybody it seems will pretty much stick to their opinion. But the bottom line is, no matter who you are, no matter how great you coach, if you can't tell during the recruiting process whether you can work with young men, or keep them under your wing, & have to continually run them off, then it doesn't shine well for your program.

Before anyone throws football in my face. It's a totally different game. That's why they issue 25 schollies per year. Everybody suffers a lot of attrition.

[CajunZ1]

Most disappointing loss of the SEASON?? How about in the history of the program?
We want to be the sole "University of Louisiana" and we lose to the other -- who boasts a 2-26 record -- by 18(!!!) at home (!!!). As a former player, I am embarrassed to the maximum. And PLEASE come with your excuse that they shot 70+% in the second half. You play your a*s off and get a dam* hand in someone's face and disrupt their shot.

Preach!

I agree. Saturday was a travishamockery.