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

[BraveCajun]

When comparing Evan's players to Marlin's recruits one should keep in mind todays APR requirements. Evans recruiting would cost the basketball team scholarships with today's APR requirements. Evans had the benefit of recruiting academic at risk players that marlin does not.

[cajun4life]

When comparing Evan's players to Marlin's recruits one should keep in mind todays APR requirements. Evans recruiting would cost the basketball team scholarships with today's APR requirements. Evans had the benefit of recruiting academic at risk players that marlin does not.

See, that is where everyone is wrong. Had their been APR requirements then, Jessie would have forced them to go to class. They were not dumb kids. They were just allowed to be lazy when it came to academics.

[BraveCajun]

See, that is where everyone is wrong. Had their been APR requirements then, Jessie would have forced them to go to class. They were not dumb kids. They were just allowed to be lazy when it came to academics.

Due to the fact that Evans didn't have to maintain an APR score, he didn't care how his kids performed academically? The man was a COLLEGE coach and he should have cared about his kids' grades. The point I was making that he had the freedom to take risks on kids with very little repercussions if it didn't pan out. We hd countless players not playing in the fall semester due to bad grades.

[CajunRebel]

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.

You know Evans' first four years weren't all that special either. And he had a whole lot more to work with than Marlin has. Not saying Marlin is God's gift to Cajun Basketball but I'm happy with what he's done. We're looking at a 20 win season and a top 100 RPI. That's better than we've done in almost 10 years.

[CajunEXPRESS]

I don't know if Coach Marlin will get an extension after this season but I doubt it as he was extended at the beginning of last season. On the other hand, I am fairly certain he won't be replaced at the end of this season as the record is 12 and 6 right now. Last season we were 6 and 12 at this stage. Now, 12 and 6 is really 9 and 6 as three victories were over non D1 teams. Still the comparison indicates we are making progress. Now, the progress may not be to the degree of some's expectations and I respect those views. Long way to go this season and we could still collapse or sky rocket. I suspect it will be somewhere in between. Still, replacing the staff is not close to being on the radar right now of anyone who counts. Therefore focus should be on supporting the team. The coaching staff status is a topic for another day.

I agree with YOU mike, and even more I hope coach Marlin gets another extension, and that extension should have favorable buy outs for LA. Marlin needs all the positive press he can get for recruiting, and always having five full years kills negative comments. Nobody needs to know that years three, four, and five will always have favorable buy outs for LA except Marlin, his agent, Scott, and T-Jo.

Again agreed Mike the best thing a fan can do to help recruiting is go to the games, yell like hell, be obnoxious to the opposing teams and coaches within the allowable nastiness SBC tolerance levels. The next best thing is to join the rebounders club.

If we want great sports we need to be great sports fans. Yesterday Wichita State was on TV, granted they are #5, and had some great number on games in a row over 10K fans.

Guys you want to be in a better conference? We need to, in spite of the GD-, increase our support of RCAF, increase our support in the major sports, football, basketball, baseball, and softball. No matter what the Acadiana, and Lafayette Metro only has about 500K living where we have influence. We need to be big time in every other aspect as we can only grow the population so much a year. Ultimately even an ineffective Farmer can sell great fans.

[douglas]

See, that is where everyone is wrong. Had their been APR requirements then, Jessie would have forced them to go to class. They were not dumb kids. They were just allowed to be lazy when it came to academics.

maybe he should have forced them to go to class so we could have had the same line up in march as we did in november, i dont think there was one season where the entire team came back after semester break b/c of grades, i could be wrong but it seemed like it happend a lot

[CajunEXPRESS]

Actually what happened almost every year is we start out without a full team, and we ended with a pretty good one. Those early loses due to missing starts sealed our fate win the conference or wilt waiting for an at large.

[CajunRebel]

Actually what happened almost every year is we start out without a full team, and we ended with a pretty good one. Those early loses due to missing starts sealed our fate win the conference or wilt waiting for an at large.

True but it was the price we had to pay to get top level talent in a Cajun uniform. When you take chances on players with poor academic records you can't be surprised when they don't always make the grade.

That was the main reason why so many fans had soured on Evans. But he had to take who he had to take. If Southall could have been relied on to make the grade every semester he would have been in a Duke or Kansas uniform. But he struggled so we had to take a chance on him when the major programs wouldn't. And it paid off for us in a big way. Evans deserved way more credit than he ever got from the fans.

[lcitsh]

True but it was the price we had to pay to get top level talent in a Cajun uniform. When you take chances on players with poor academic records you can't be surprised when they don't always make the grade.

That was the main reason why so many fans had soured on Evans. But he had to take who he had to take. If Southall could have been relied on to make the grade every semester he would have been in a Duke or Kansas uniform. But he struggled so we had to take a chance on him when the major programs wouldn't. And it paid off for us in a big way. Evans deserved way more credit than he ever got from the fans.

Actually, he was a Kentucky recruit, when they found out what he smoked, they told him to take a hike.
Credit. Many of us would have been pleased to give him the benefit of the doubt, but when he wouldn't prevent his son from selling the stuff he was smoking, it was time for him to go.

[CajunEXPRESS]

True but it was the price we had to pay to get top level talent in a Cajun uniform. When you take chances on players with poor academic records you can't be surprised when they don't always make the grade.

That was the main reason why so many fans had soured on Evans. But he had to take who he had to take. If Southall could have been relied on to make the grade every semester he would have been in a Duke or Kansas uniform. But he struggled so we had to take a chance on him when the major programs wouldn't. And it paid off for us in a big way. Evans deserved way more credit than he ever got from the fans.

You do not have to sell me the merits of Jesse Evans. Not only did he WIN, he even beat the NCAA. Not many people can say that, they caught Mr. Clean Ricky Bustle with a minor infraction of t shirts in the Easter Bunny investigation but Jesse sent them a packing and the Easter Bunny was king in his girlfriend's caddy.