When is Marlin going to start winning the big game!?

[ULGrad@HOU]

This years UL basketball team is very inconsistent, moments of greatness and then turn around and look like talentless team. A rollercoaster season for sure. I'm not sure it can be straightened out this year, but we can hope.

[cajun4life]

Top tier Sun Belt talent.. lol

Exactly! Not enough talent, at least Jessie's teams could go toe to toe with Tennessee, Miss St, and Louisville. Hell Orien Green, Tirus Wade, Michael Southall, Anthony Johnson, Tyren Johnson, Dwayne Mitchel and Brian Hamilton are all still playing professional basketball somewhere.

Name me a player on our roster who would beat anyone of those players out of a starting position besides Peyton. I am not sure Long would start over Hamilton and I know he isn't better than Big Mike.

I am not even throwing in guys like Brad Boyd, Laurie Bridges, Orlando Bulter, Blaine Harmon, Chris Cameron, Antoine Landry, Kenneth Lawrence, Tyrone Foster hell even Emanuel Washington are better than the majority of our roster.

[ManAboutTown]

The talent gap from the 90s to now is staggering. Those teams would have crushed these 2000s teams. Not only did we have great individual players, they played well together. Watching the new intro gives me mixed feelings. It makes me miss the old days, the flashy dunks, fast breaks, show time passes and atmosphere in the dome. GREAT times, hot tickets, awesome basketball. I would do anything to have that again.

And yes, I'm endorsing cheating

[SlappyCajun]

Name me a player on our roster who would beat anyone of those players out of a starting position besides Peyton. I am not sure Long would start over Hamilton and I know he isn't better than Big Mike.

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I think you can argue Long would start over Big Mike, because Big Mike did not play hard. On physical talent alone, Mike was head and shoulders better. But, he didn't always play hard. Mike's peak was when he averaged 8 rebounds per game. Also,Shawn is much more skilled than Mike.

[cajun4life]

The talent gap from the 90s to now is staggering. Those teams would have crushed these 2000s teams. Not only did we have great individual players, they played well together. Watching the new intro gives me mixed feelings. It makes me miss the old days, the flashy dunks, fast breaks, show time passes and atmosphere in the dome. GREAT times, hot tickets, awesome basketball. I would do anything to have that again.

And yes, I'm endorsing cheating

Agreed, Paul Johnson asked me repeatedly to come out and play for them when I was running track. I knew I would never see significant floor time but still thought about it. I played with those guys all the time, competed ok against them, but they were on a different level.

Shoot I am 33 now, played a pick up game against a kid who supposedly was invited to walk on but didn't make the team and walked his behind all over the floor and I have only played basketball maybe 5 times a year for the past 5 or 6 years.

Mediocre coaching with great talent will dominate all but maybe 40 programs in the country year in and year out.

[Turbine]

Exactly! Not enough talent, at least Jessie's teams could go toe to toe with Tennessee, Miss St, and Louisville. Hell Orien Green, Tirus Wade, Michael Southall, Anthony Johnson, Tyren Johnson, Dwayne Mitchel and Brian Hamilton are all still playing professional basketball somewhere..

Well we at least need to be consistent, you lowered Marlin with "I don't want to hear about Long and Peyton, because Elfrid was a crap shoot and Long transferred in."

I liked Evans but virtually every player he had was a transfer in.

[BlueDawg]

Frack!!!!!!!! We need Cajuns to start playing sum ball ______!!!!!! WTF is going on down there???????!?

[Just1More]

We need a guy here similar to Hudspeth who can create a level of excitement around basketball. I am sorry but 4 years of mediocre basketball with a limited run of success in an obviously weaker league than what Fletcher or Evans coached in.

Well, Hud did just as good in year one... with 96% Bustle starters... than he's done the entire time he's been here. I say Marlin just needs to get Hud to "have a talk" with the basketball players. Let Hud be his "heavy". You walk around the court and tell them that you are the "other guy" as you slam into them and slam the ball out of their hands... then you tell them, "that other guy wants your ball... are you going to let him take your ball away from you!?... and a few other things that can't be discussed or filmed... for the mothers.

Our basketball players have the talent to beat everyone in the SBC and beyond. They just need a fire lit under their ___.

[cajun4life]

Well we at least need to be consistent, you lowered Marlin with "I don't want to hear about Long and Peyton, because Elfrid was a crap shoot and Long transferred in."

I liked Evans but virtually every player he had was a transfer in.

Evans core group were recruited by Evans, even the juco guys were still recruited.

[SlappyCajun]

Evans core group were recruited by Evans, even the juco guys were still recruited.

I'm not sure what that means.

[cajun4life]

I'm not sure what that means.

I mean that yes we had transfers like Dwayne Mitchel, Orien Green, and Reggie Degray. But Evans recruited out of high school Orlando Butler, Blaine Harmon, Laurie Bridges, Chris Cameron, Brett Smith, and a few others. Then we had some Juco contributors as well who were recruited by Evans. Jessie did not build the program around tranfers, he supplemented the program with transfers.

[SlappyCajun]

I mean that yes we had transfers like Dwayne Mitchel, Orien Green, and Reggie Degray. But Evans recruited out of high school Orlando Butler, Blaine Harmon, Laurie Bridges, Chris Cameron, Brett Smith, and a few others. Then we had some Juco contributors as well who were recruited by Evans. Jessie did not build the program around tranfers, he supplemented the program with transfers.

Yeah. Towards the end he got a little transfer happy. But, I agree. He did recruit great HS players as well.