Louisiana vs Cal Irvine

[CajunFan3406]

Agree... but he wasn't that far off. Little Rock is the only team that visited the Cajundome this year that was better than UCI. So the comment was not that far off.

Was it though? I know it gets some folks panties in a wad, but you could say LaTech's team last year was better than UCI. They won their league, similar record, but went to NIT and won two games. And although Evansville technically didn't play in the dome, they were better than UCI. ULM's teams over the last two years were at least as good, and GaSt's 2 years ago was probably better. I just didn't see that much from them that said they were that great. It took a way below average outside shooting performance for us and an above average outside shooting performance from them to escape out of here with a 1 pt victory.

[CajunFan3406]

Oh, and hey, where was the band last night???

[CajunRebel]

Z, all we gotta remember is we were not NCAA, or NIT worthy. Yes, we could have been, might have been, and we could join Monmouth and others complaining about the unfairness of the seeding and invitation process. Yet again we had no cause of action. Somehow Bob clouded his failure to be a team of relevance in the NCAA process by complaining for all the worthy at large teams that did not get an invite.

Bob we all know the system if fixed so go out and win the tournament, win a regular season championship. Losing to Cal Irvine in the CIT is so unremarkable, so unheralded an event it doesn't even make the score scroll at the bottom of the ESPN, CBS, or Fox cable channels.

The only people who attach importance to this event are the people who do so to try and tear it down. Marlin didn't brag about making the CIT. He never claimed it was a "remarkable" or "hearalded" event. Nobody here did either.

There are people here who care about this team and are happy to watch them play more basketball. And there are coaches and players on this team who were excited to play more games and get more practice in against decent competition. I don't know why some people feel the need to take time out of their day to take a huge dump on the program they supposedly support.

If you don't care about this that's cool. Go do something else with your life. Stop trying to undermine your own players and fans and coaches.

[VObserver]

Express isn't undermining the program, he is simply demanding accountability from a man we pay nearly half a million dollars a year to recruit good players and win with them.

[CajunRebel]

Express isn't undermining the program, he is simply demanding accountability from a man we pay nearly half a million dollars a year to recruit good players and win with them.

No, he was putting words in his mouth then building some weird conspiracy theory around it.

I've got no problem with criticism against Marlin. I'm VERY disappointed in this year. I don't expect us to win the conference every year, but this was supposed to be the year we put it all together and it didn't happen. Our recruits didn't get the job done. I don't know enough about coaching to say if they did a good job or not, but at the end of the day it falls on Marlin's shoulders.

But that's not what express and z were criticizing.

[CajunRebel]

I think its fair to say the better team won last night. We should all at least come to grips with the fact that in order for the Cajuns to win last night against UCI, they had to shoot well and defend. UCI was the better team coming into the Cajun Dome, even BOP acknowledge that they are probably the best team remaining in CIT. Well the Cajuns did defend well at times, especially in the second half of the game, but it wasn't enough to overcome their shooting woes from the perimeter. We all knew that was this teams weakness coming in to the game and last night did nothing to change the narrative on the 2015-16 Cajuns MBB team.

Let me join you Mike in saying that no one quit last night and these kids faught to the final buzzer, actually playing like they had something to play for in the end. I'm appreciative of their effort and I will wish all of the seniors the best of luck in life going forward, regardless of where their careers may take them in the future.

At this point, there really isn't mush else to say other then to repeat your statement that recruiting must improve for this basketball program to move forward.

This is a good post btw. Spot on.

[Duggie35]

I think its fair to say the better team won last night. We should all at least come to grips with the fact that in order for the Cajuns to win last night against UCI, they had to shoot well and defend. UCI was the better team coming into the Cajun Dome, even BOP acknowledge that they are probably the best team remaining in CIT. Well the Cajuns did defend well at times, especially in the second half of the game, but it wasn't enough to overcome their shooting woes from the perimeter. We all knew that was this teams weakness coming in to the game and last night did nothing to change the narrative on the 2015-16 Cajuns MBB team.

Let me join you Mike in saying that no one quit last night and these kids faught to the final buzzer, actually playing like they had something to play for in the end. I'm appreciative of their effort and I will wish all of the seniors the best of luck in life going forward, regardless of where their careers may take them in the future.

At this point, there really isn't mush else to say other then to repeat your statement that recruiting must improve for this basketball program to move forward.

Ditto!

[VObserver]

I will say it. Marlin is a good defensive coach, but he leaves a lot to be desired offensively. Many coaches could have won the SBC with the players we now have. Marlin is not one of them.

[Zeebart21]

Express isn't undermining the program, he is simply demanding accountability from a man we pay nearly half a million dollars a year to recruit good players and win with them.

Accountability. On many, that quality was lost decades ago.


Z

[CajunEXPRESS]

The only people who attach importance to this event are the people who do so to try and tear it down. Marlin didn't brag about making the CIT. He never claimed it was a "remarkable" or "hearalded" event. Nobody here did either.

There are people here who care about this team and are happy to watch them play more basketball. And there are coaches and players on this team who were excited to play more games and get more practice in against decent competition. I don't know why some people feel the need to take time out of their day to take a huge dump on the program they supposedly support.

If you don't care about this that's cool. Go do something else with your life. Stop trying to undermine your own players and fans and coaches.

In his current resume, three post season appearances. I only count one worthy of note. He'll have four next year. Yep he's puffing his extraordinary mundane record here. He will keep getting new contracts with mo money unless one of two things happen. A big donor gets sick of his ordinary teams, or the fans vote. Clearly most won't even voice opposition much less vote with their dollars. Rebel you need to change your pen name to 'I'm good with this Cajun'.

[CajunRebel]

In his current resume, three post season appearances. I only count one worthy of note. He'll have four next year. Yep he's puffing his extraordinary mundane record here. He will keep getting new contracts with mo money unless one of two things happen. A big donor gets sick of his ordinary teams, or the fans vote. Clearly most won't even voice opposition much less vote with their dollars. Rebel you need to change your pen name to 'I'm good with this Cajun'.

And now you're putting words in my mouth too. I don't know how you can read my last post, which talks about how disappointed I am in this year's team and how it all falls on Marlin's shoulders, and come up with "I'm good with this."

Dude, please chill with the dishonesty.

[CajunRebel]

I will say it. Marlin is a good defensive coach, but he leaves a lot to be desired offensively. Many coaches could have won the SBC with the players we now have. Marlin is not one of them.

I disagree. I don't think we had guards that were good enough to win conference his year. He was able to work an offense that gave them plenty of open looks. Too many times they weren't able to convert. In today's game, if you can't consistently hit 3pt shots, you're dead in the water. Having a huge rebounding advantage thanks to Long kept us in a lot of games we shouldn't have been in because our fg% and 3pt% was so incredibly low.