LA vs WKU

[MiamiCajun32]

Simple to me. Except for Long and Peyton not a lot of talent. I Shepherd would play more.

Lee ruined the program. Sufficated the program. All the accomplishments over decades up to his time at the helm, was basically wiped out, as far as momentum is concerned. So it will take an amazing coaching job to build it back up again. The program was flushed down the toilet with Lee, and made a lot worse by administration thinking it was ok to keep him around years longer than he should have been.

[CRAWFISH61]

Lee ruined the program. Sufficated the program. All the accomplishments over decades up to his time at the helm, was basically wiped out, as far as momentum is concerned. So it will take an amazing coaching job to build it back up again. The program was flushed down the toilet with Lee, and made a lot worse by administration thinking it was ok to keep him around years longer than he oshould have been.

+10000

[basinbear]

Lee ruined the program. Sufficated the program. All the accomplishments over decades up to his time at the helm, was basically wiped out, as far as momentum is concerned. So it will take an amazing coaching job to build it back up again. The program was flushed down the toilet with Lee, and made a lot worse by administration thinking it was ok to keep him around years longer than he should have been.

This is Coach Marlins 4th year....I hope that he can get this done because I genuinely like the guy.

[basinbear]

Simple to me. Except for Long and Peyton not a lot of talent. I wish Shepherd would play more.

Exactly....recruiting

[Frenchie35]

If you want a winning program, how long do you stay with the coaching staff if you have a program that remain status quo.....Everything is football right now.

[ManAboutTown]

I don't want to hear about Robert Lee. There has been sufficient turnover.

Like I said a few weeks back, 2 NBA players, regardless of scheme would bulldoze this conference. I don't care what the numbers say after the fact. What we have is two GOOD college players (nothing more, nothing less) and several mediocre Sun Belt players. It's that simple.

This game is microcosm of this years team, and Marlin coached teams, if history tells us anything.

[ManAboutTown]

Well, ESPN announcer shook my hand. I thanked him for saying Louisiana on the broadcast and he replied, "I heard of the name issue, and I was happy and glad to say Louisiana. "

What is this guys name?
Great post and thank you for sharing.

[Frenchie35]

Exactly....recruiting

Do we have a program that will attract the recruits we need to build this program? Honey attracts, and we don't have the honey now.......

[ManAboutTown]

Well, ESPN announcer shook my hand. I thanked him for saying Louisiana on the broadcast and he replied, "I heard of the name issue, and I was happy and glad to say Louisiana. "

What was the announcers name?
Great post and thank you for sharing.

[roarman]

I, too, shook the guy's hand and said thanks for referring to us as Louisiana. He said, you're welcome.

What was the announcers name?
Great post and thank you for sharing.

[MiamiCajun32]

I don't want to hear about Robert Lee. There has been sufficient turnover.

Like I said a few weeks back, 2 NBA players, regardless of scheme would bulldoze this conference. I don't care what the numbers say after the fact. What we have is two GOOD college players (nothing more, nothing less) and several mediocre Sun Belt players. It's that simple.

This game is microcosm of this years team, and Marlin coached teams, if history tells us anything.

My point about Lee is that it's going to take a HUD type incredible job to turn around the program. Lee made sure all the success of the past would no longer be relevant in the future, re recruiting, fan support, general mojo. Cajuns basketball has nothing to do with the past at times great years, because Lee run was so bad, the past was just burned up. You may not want to hear about Lee (who does?), but it's because of him that the recruits don't want to hear about all the great times for the program in 70s, 80s, 90s and early 00s. A very very good mid major program was turned into a laughing stock for some time and now is just trying to be competitive. There is not enough talent on the floor and realistically you can't expect the current team to win consistently, but you are trying to find the clutch performances of the former cajuns basketball program (the won that had some great years and was consistently good) in this team and wonder why its not happening. Lee severed off the past success pretty much for good. Its a program now just trying to find its way and for it having a winning record is an accomplishment. 2 very good players, and not enough talent.

Marlin not doing a great job, but it would take a great job to fully overcome how bad things were for a while under Lee. Need some banners again on the ceiling and not from over 10 years ago (with mostly losing seasons since then while sunbelt has had its worst ever decade) in order to attract a lot of good recruits. Marlin has won wherever he has been before, at college level, so its hard to understand that suddenly he can't coach. he should probably be let go, but if administration held on to Lee for so long, they must think Marlin needs an extension and a raise about now.

[roarman]

This is the first time I've seen Elfrid play. After all the accolades thrown at him he didn't measure up. Did he just have a bad game? I will say this, the talent level has diminished greatly from the
Evan's years.