Is Bob Marlin's seat even starting to warm up?

[CajunRebel]

No way in hell are we a Top 60 team. We have a top 30 front court talent wise when healthy. But our guard play is low mid major quality. The Sun Belt is a bad league. We should blow throw this league every year.

OOC is where you judge how good you are and all signs point to Long and Washington being monsters in the middle and everyone else is mediocre.

You misunderstood me. I said earlier that I think we're a top 100 team.

The point of my other post is that we shouldn't expect UL to be a top 60 program until we get the same support other top 60 programs get.

[Cajunsmike]

No way in hell are we a Top 60 team. We have a top 30 front court talent wise when healthy. But our guard play is low mid major quality. The Sun Belt is a bad league. We should blow throw this league every year.

OOC is where you judge how good you are and all signs point to Long and Washington being monsters in the middle and everyone else is mediocre.

Bryce barely played in the non conference games this year due to injury. Does not matter if you it anyone else outside of the administration wants a different coach. He is likely here till march of 18 at a minimum.

[oldalum]

You misunderstood me. I said earlier that I think we're a top 100 team.

The point of my other post is that we shouldn't expect UL to be a top 60 program until we get the same support other top 60 programs get.

We are not even a top 200 team.

[RedBug58]

We are not even a top 200 team.

Thanks for those words of wisdom,
"old Salty Crusty Alum"!

[CajunRebel]

We are not even a top 200 team.

[cajun4life]

You misunderstood me. I said earlier that I think we're a top 100 team.

The point of my other post is that we shouldn't expect UL to be a top 60 program until we get the same support other top 60 programs get.

I can mostly agree with that. If we can sustain this play for the rest of the season I can agree with that.

But we would have to double the support to reach Top 60 support.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Look, you can go back in this thread and you won't find me taking issue with anyone who thinks we haven't played to our potential these past 5 years. What I take issue with is the way you are constantly choosing to sell our team short. You even do it in this post. We are NOT the 3rd or 4th best team in the conference. We are CLEARLY the 1st or 2nd best team in the conference. And you say we've only beat teams with RPIs over 200. We just beat a team with an RPI of 116 by 15 points and a team with an RPI of 133 by 33 points. Even though the RPI might not say it, this is obviously a top 100 team.

Given the reality of college basketball and the reality of playing in the Sun Belt in 2016 I never expected this team to have a top 60 RPI. If you did you were fooling yourself. Little Rock has only lost two games, beat a bunch of solid basketball teams, and even they can't crack the top 60. I'd love for that reality to be different, but we can only go off what we have to work with. When your conference isn't top 10, when your basketball budget is probably not even top 300, when only 4,000 fans show up for a big Saturday game, when you don't have top 60 prestige, when you don't live in a basketball hotbed, etc. it doesn't matter who your coach is.

You can say I'm making excuses for Coach Marlin all you want. But the fact is that it takes way more than a good basketball coach to have a consistent top 60 program. John Brady had a consistent top 60 team at LSU and a consistent top 200 program at Arkansas State. Do you see what I mean?

I do think you are making mistakes and excuses. We talk about coaches who have their teams in the top sixty RPI not from a basketball conference, and not a P5 conference. Steven F Austin from the SLC comes to mind last year, right now you have Lil'Rock pushing it.

One of the absolute ligit complaints about Bobby BigFish is he absolutely refuses to recruit money to position his program better. Every other successful coach at Louisiana does this, why is he so special that he won't, or is it he cannot? If he can't it is a negative on his ability as a head coach, if he won't it's an even bigger negative.

[BraveCajun]

I do think you are making mistakes and excuses. We talk about coaches who have their teams in the top sixty RPI not from a basketball conference, and not a P5 conference. Steven F Austin from the SLC comes to mind last year, right now you have Lil'Rock pushing it.

One of the absolute ligit complaints about Bobby BigFish is he absolutely refuses to recruit money to position his program better. Every other successful coach at Louisiana does this, why is he so special that he won't, or is it he cannot? If he can't it is a negative on his ability as a head coach, if he won't it's an even bigger negative.

You make a good point about the success of Stephen F Austin's basketball program. But what do you make of Danny Kasper's lack of sun belt success even though he played a big part of Stephen F Austin's recent success?

[ManAboutTown]

You make a good point about the success of Stephen F Austin's basketball program. But what do you make of Danny Kasper's lack of sun belt success even though he played a big part of Stephen F Austin's recent success?

Interesting parallel with Marlin...

[CajunEXPRESS]

You make a good point about the success of Stephen F Austin's basketball program. But what do you make of Danny Kasper's lack of sun belt success even though he played a big part of Stephen F Austin's recent success?

I'm of the opinion that the new coach built on his success. Only much better.