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[Turbine]

I saw that comment before about graduates but really giving Marlin credit for Randell, LaRyan, Travis, Colby, Courtney is a big leap. That Credit goes to Coach Lee. I can.credit him Josh and Scottie, David has not graduated. Even Phillip and Keith go to Coach Lee.

Sorry, but I wasn't crediting anyone (other than the players themselves)

I was saying that losing that many players ( to graduation) over such a short period of time is a lot to rebuild from.

[Bandwagon King]

And how much credit to you take for all of the big L's during Robert Lee's tenure?

That was a cute lil squeeze coach had on his arm the other night. Hope he can maintenance that with a five figure Southland Conference salary. Because if he don't start producing pretty soon that's what he'll be making.

[Turbine]

Because if he don't start producing pretty soon that's what he'll be making.

Start?

In his first two seasons with a slew of malcontents, he has already put together two non losing seasons in a row under his belt.

This after taking over a program that was allowed to produce seven straight losing seasons.

[CajunEXPRESS]

One of the best programs ever, Duke, the coach needed like 8 years before having any success.

Any Success? Eight seasons? I cannot believe you would post something so easily checked out.

Coached at Duke from 1980 to present against some of the best coaches ever at UNC, and others.

1980-81: 17-13 conference 6-8 5th place tied, NIT Quarterfinals. IMO successful at once.
1981-82: 10-17 conference 4-10 tied 6th no post season. Losing record.
1982-83: 11-17 conference 3-11 7th place. Losing record.
1983-84: 24-10 7-7 conference tied for 3rd. NCAA Round of 32.

By year four, two post season invitations from high quality post season tournaments, two winning seasons, and an overall winning record. No problems with student athletes, no glaring problems with assistant coaches.

1984-85: 23-8 conference 8-6 tied for 4th, NCAA round of 32.
1985-86: 37-3 first in conference, NCAA runner up. Sixth season runner up in the NCAA tournament? I guess one could say that almost zero success.

One should not read too much into his comments about Duke's patience with him. He gave them lots of evidence he was getting the job done. In our case the only thing that shows is mediocre recruiting, badly matched assistant coach, problems getting along with the players losing many even after he attempts to keep them. Apples and oranges my friend, apples and oranges.

The only evidence that Marlin can get the job done is his history before he came to UL. Good career as a juco coach, good job at SHSU.

[Turbine]

In all fairness Mike Krzyzewski took over a program at Duke that had been to the Elite-8 the year before and in fact 2 of the previous 3 years.

Because of that he got an invite to the NIT with 15 wins.

Because Marlin took over a program with 7 straight losing seasons, his team stayed home with 15 wins.

With the way Marlin's team was playing at the end of year one, I sure would have liked his chances in the NIT.

jmo

[CajunEXPRESS]

Marlin inherited a team that had not won, not a team without talent. In any case I was simply stating the facts, the coach at Duke did not take anything like eight years to start winning.

In Marlins case, to be honest, there are multiple missteps by a senior coach, not a rookie like Lee. The latest is bringing a guy still facing sex charges to the team. COME on that is the first thing you clear up before you offer him an invite. This after multiple years of mistakes by the guy. If you think it is all the players, or N Johnson's fault you have your head in the sand. He is the head coach, that means he makes key decisions about players, and coaches. Multiple mistakes, and then a sex scandal?

[Cajunsmike]

That was a cute lil squeeze coach had on his arm the other night. Hope he can maintenance that with a five figure Southland Conference salary. Because if he don't start producing pretty soon that's what he'll be making.

The cute lil squeeze Coach Marlin had at the RCAF casino party has been his wife for about a year. As far as his salary/future here, he will be here at least for two more seasons. He signed a five year contract when he took the job and has three remaining. We won't buy out more than one year. Granted, he does need to show improvement. It is understandable that people are not optimistic about this coming year due the atttrition. However, none of us know how well the eight new players coming on board will perform. They could lay the groundwork for success or make us wonder how they were given a scholarship. We will start finding out in November.

[Turbine]

Marlin inherited a team that had not won, not a team without talent. In any case I was simply stating the facts, the coach at Duke did not take anything like eight years to start winning.

In Marlins case, to be honest, there are multiple missteps by a senior coach, not a rookie like Lee. The latest is bringing a guy still facing sex charges to the team. COME on that is the first thing you clear up before you offer him an invite. This after multiple years of mistakes by the guy. If you think it is all the players, or N Johnson's fault you have your head in the sand. He is the head coach, that means he makes key decisions about players, and coaches. Multiple mistakes, and then a sex scandal?

I can take you back 5 years and my statements about how "you never let a player hold a program hostage" the cleanup of the last two years is what I was afraid of. I didn't know when it would happen it was just inevitable that there would be a cleansing either from the top down or the bottom up.

In the current case there is no scandal, what Marlin did was lock up a player in case he was cleared in time, he wasn't, nothing lost.

jmo

[RaginDave]

Coach Marlin's decision was to offer and sign him. What part you missed. Another poor decision by Men's Basketball. At least this time Scott Farmer actually paid attention and stopped it. Too bad Farmer has not investigated some of Marlin's other actions and decision.

We know we know you hate marlin. Give it a rest already.

[playincajun]

Hate is a strong word. I dont hate anyone but I do not like him for great reason. Josh Raymone is not playing anywhere. He is attending SLU to graduate. He was blacklisted by the infamous Bob Marlin and staff to the point they even bad mouthed his family to schools. He was intentionally harmed by UL to no less than 5 college coaches who basically called his family and said Coach Marlin must truly hate your kid. Now that your idea of a leader. Not mine. He did not want him but went out of his way to make sure noone else would take him.

[RaginDave]

Hate is a strong word. I dont hate anyone but I do not like him for great reason. Josh Raymone is not playing anywhere. He is attending SLU to graduate. He was blacklisted by the infamous Bob Marlin and staff to the point they even bad mouthed his family to schools. He was intentionally harmed by UL to no less than 5 college coaches who basically called his family and said Coach Marlin must truly hate your kid. Now that your idea of a leader. Not mine. He did not want him but went out of his way to make sure noone else would take him.

You blame everyone else for raymone not playing. Any chance, just possibly, any chance raymone takes any reponsibility for these issues. I am not giving marlin a complete pass, but I am sick of you only jumping in to blast marlin. You don't care about UL, the cajuns or lafayette in general, you just put your worthless .02 in about marlin. Shut up already. We are tired of it. Or at least I am.

Give it up already. Blast slu or lsu for not offering a scholly to the problem child. Blame marlin aLl you want, but he will be judged like every other coach, on the field/Court , when contracts are due up. Raymone nEeds to be judged on his performance on the court and his performance in the locker room, which was week at best on both fronts.

I'm done, call me an idiot, foolish or whatever, but for 2 years I kept my mouth shut as you went on and on. I am tired of the bs. Give it a rest already.

[Turbine]

Hate is a strong word. I dont hate anyone but I do not like him for great reason. Josh Raymone is not playing anywhere. He is attending SLU to graduate. He was blacklisted by the infamous Bob Marlin and staff to the point they even bad mouthed his family to schools. He was intentionally harmed by UL to no less than 5 college coaches who basically called his family and said Coach Marlin must truly hate your kid. Now that your idea of a leader. Not mine. He did not want him but went out of his way to make sure noone else would take him.

So now Marlin is a mind reader who made preemptive calls just to the coaches who were thinking of the player, and those coaches saw it as their duty to call the family and rub it in?