Basketball Staff ?

[Hatch]

They absolutely deserve to be back, that being said next year is key to their fate. I personally believe expectations for next year will be higher than ever, even when Long announced he was staying for his senior year. Washington, Stove, and Bartley as Seniors, the 3 P5 transfers, and the most high profile recruit straight from high school during Marlin's tenure.

Along with the win loss record, I want to see how the staff handles this years freshman class as they will all see a decrease in playing time. Miller might welcome it with his knee issues, and if Brown is willing to redshirt that would be best. How Evans and Davis will fit in next year remain to be seen. Each of those guys needs to stick around as they could all develop into key players by the time they are seniors. If the attrition bug bites again that would be another cause for concern with this staff.

[California Cajun]

I think having a "real" AD in terms of experience will create the working conditions that will allow our coaches to be accurately evaluated. Right now we're not sure.

[Ragin4U]

I love how we either have lots of talent and Marlin does nothing with it or that he can't recruit talented players. Maybe some of you have been bitten by the alternate facts bug.
Marlin's approach to program building seems to reflect his coaching style, methodical. He is getting players that can play, they graduate and don't make negative headlines off the court. We all want a MBB program in the top third of the conference or better but I don't think we should be willing to sell the universities soul to do it. Remember these are STUDENT athletes.

[Cajunsmike]

They absolutely deserve to be back, that being said next year is key to their fate. I personally believe expectations for next year will be higher than ever, even when Long announced he was staying for his senior year. Washington, Stove, and Bartley as Seniors, the 3 P5 transfers, and the most high profile recruit straight from high school during Marlin's tenure.

Along with the win loss record, I want to see how the staff handles this years freshman class as they will all see a decrease in playing time. Miller might welcome it with his knee issues, and if Brown is willing to redshirt that would be best. How Evans and Davis will fit in next year remain to be seen. Each of those guys needs to stick around as they could all develop into key players by the time they are seniors. If the attrition bug bites again that would be another cause for concern with this staff.

Very good post here. I have said I expect next year to be better than this one but I make no guarantees. With the transfers and a high profile recruit coming in, chemistry may be an issue and we know one reason this year's team did better than predicted was because of chemistry. The way Jay Wright has played recently makes me think he will be missed more than some realize. Still, we should have more depth next season which may prevent a long rough patch. We were able to recover from the one that hit this year but it took so long to get out of it many had written them off. Of course they never stopped believing in themselves. Key to a good season is how do you react when tough times come. One will next year. Getting out of it quicker will be the key to if they are able to improve upon this year.

[MelRock]

If chemistry is a problem then we have bigger problems. It is not like these guys are transferring in at the beginning of next fall. They will have been here for a full year. I understand you are talking about playing chemistry but there should still be no excuse. Personally I would love to see two sets of five rotating in at each media timeout and lets run the floor.

[Turbine]

Geaux Cajuns

[anhil8tor]

Perhaps the compliance officer should have done a better job in that determination. I do wonder if there was subtle pressure put on her back then to make the decision the basketball staff wanted.

That makes a little more sense.. but I have to say i've been a season ticket holder for 7 years now and the last two home games were two of the most fun I have been to. The home winning streak was nice.. but there was something about those last two games there were fun.

[Cajunsmike]

If chemistry is a problem then we have bigger problems. It is not like these guys are transferring in at the beginning of next fall. They will have been here for a full year. I understand you are talking about playing chemistry but there should still be no excuse. Personally I would love to see two sets of five rotating in at each media timeout and lets run the floor.

I was talking about chemistry on the floor and not how the guys will get along. Defining roles and players accepting them is what I hope is not an issue. I agree that playing lots of people in an aggressive style would be fun to see.

[Ragin4U]

I do love the chemistry of this team. They seem to love playing together.

[ManAboutTown]

I say let Dr. Maggard get his feet grounded, survey the field, then start makes some changes to advance all of the athletic programs at UL. Hopefully, sooner than later. For the love of God, please make contracts to where UL does not get the shaft!

The best thing BMag can do for MBB is negotiate a much more "Cajun basketball first" arrangement with the Dome, including revenue dollars from concessions and adversitsing. (And that MBB would have priority when scheduling games over CD events).

Getting creative with scheduling and using his contacts to bring quality named teams to Lafayette while improving OOC scheduling on the road. It would also benefit us if BMag could get the SBC to stop shafting our programs with ridiculous traveling schedules.