Kevin Keathley offered coaching gig at Louisiana?

[jllanclos]

Response from coachkeathley on twitter to my heads' up on using UL and Louisiana (with a link to battle for a name): "thanks for the heads' up. I look forward to working with a program that has a solid tradition! Time to move over Hilltoppers"
igeaux.mobi

[Parrott]

_ I went to the Texas A&M basketball website. Byron Smith is not one of the assistants listed. I remember now hearing that one of the guys on our list coached at Texas A&M when Billy Gillipsie (just fired as head coach at Kentucky) was in College Station. Maybe that is correct and Byron Smith has been doing something else the last couple of years. _

Smith was a senior athletic assistant at A&M last season.

Here's a link to my blog entry on both guys:

http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pb...advertiser.com

[Clutch0364]

_ Why would Bryon want to leave Texas A&M to come here. Has he been let go there? I don't believe A&M is changing head coaches. _

He has heard about the great job security here.

[spearchucker]

_ Response from coachkeathley on twitter to my heads' up on using UL and Louisiana (with a link to battle for a name): "thanks for the heads' up. I look forward to working with a program that has a solid tradition! Time to move over Hilltoppers"
igeaux.mobi _

FYI: The vast majority of college coaches out there refer to UL as "Lafayette".

[Zeebart21]

_ FYI: The vast majority of college coaches out there refer to UL as "Lafayette". _

and?

[Turbine]

_ FYI: The vast majority of college coaches out there refer to UL as "Lafayette". _

Stupidity comes in all shapes and sizes but it's not their fault.

A couple of causes . . . there are more.

Great town
Bad marketing by trying to market the town instead of the school.

[jllanclos]

FYI: The vast majority of college coaches out there refer to UL as "Lafayette".

My guess is that coach Keathley has done that for the last time, now that he knows the history.
igeaux.mobi

[Parrott]

I went to the Texas A&M basketball website. Byron Smith is not one of the assistants listed. I remember now hearing that one of the guys on our list coached at Texas A&M when Billy Gillipsie (just fired as head coach at Kentucky) was in College Station. Maybe that is correct and Byron Smith has been doing something else the last couple of years.

Two years ago, Smith was coaching DeAndre Jordan's AAU team, the Houston Swoosh. Jordan later committed to A&M when Billy Gillispie was there and signed even after he left for Kentucky.

Smith has said that Gillispie was going to add him to the coaching staff. A&M coach Mark Turgeon ended up hiring him as an assistant. Then Jordan left for the NBA after one year.

After that happened, it appears that Smith was shifted from an assistant to a senior athletic assistant at A&M. He's now part of the men's basketball "support staff."

http://www.aggieathletics.com/sports...ort-staff.html

Here's my most recent blog with some new information:

http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pb...advertiser.com

[Zeebart21]

_ My guess is that coach Keathley has done that for the last time, now that he knows the history.
igeaux.mobi _

know your place....

[ScarletCajun]

Here's a recent article I found on Keathley:

http://www.ridiculousupside.com/2009...2785/run-n-gun

Sounds like a pretty talented coach. Would'nt mind seeing that kinda offense in the CajunDome!