Stop Making Excuses

[tank]

Even voice of the Cajuns is happy with mediocrity.

[ManAboutTown]

Even voice of the Cajuns is happy with mediocrity.

Actually Jay is snapping necks on the radio, and good on him. Good on Topham too.

He’s basically agreed with everything I posted here concerning the farce that is the NCAA/NIT.

[VObserver]

Actually Jay is snapping necks on the radio, and good on him. Good on Topham too.

He's basically agreed with everything I posted here concerning the farce that is the NCAA/NIT.

MAT, he may be whining about the NCAA, but I guarantee you he is not holding Marlin accountable for the crappy scheduling over the last 8 years, or for the lack of quality wins under Marlin's watch. Jay is perfectly happy being 54-85 (26-54 in road and neutral site games) against the top 200 RPI during Marlin's tenure.

Marlin is great beating up on the dregs of Division 1 basketball, but is mediocre at best against teams with any semblance of a pulse.

Like it or not, that record against that competition is a huge part of the reason we get no respect. MTSU and St. Mary's have a legitimate gripe; we do not.

[tank]

NCAA is a joke,always has been keeping the mid major down .
Win the Sun Belt Tourney so they can’t keep u down . How many times have we won regular season championship in Marlin’s reign as head coach ? How many times tournament champ ? Runner up in regular season ? Runner up in tournament ?

[VObserver]

NCAA is a joke,always has been keeping the mid major down .
Win the Sun Belt Tourney so they can’t keep u down . How many times have we won regular season championship in Marlin’s reign as head coach ? How many times tournament champ ? Runner up in regular season ? Runner up in tournament ?

Our conference finishes (in order) under Marlin: Tied 2nd, 4th, 8th, 3, 4, 4, Tied 6th, 1st.

The year we were 3rd, we won the tournament.

[tank]

MEDIOCRITY. OVERPAID.
GRADUATION RATE ANY BETTER?

[CajunAmos]

MEDIOCRITY. OVERPAID.
GRADUATION RATE ANY BETTER?

Actually the graduation rate is better.

[tank]

Good to know

[IberiaCajun]

I have no problem with his argument that there shouldn't be any discussion of firing him. The problem I do have is he talks about the last 5 seasons, completely dismissing the first three seasons. So its also fair to say that we have 1 Conference Championship, 1 NCAA Tournament Bid and 1 NIT Bid in 8 seasons. That is the entirety of his tenure.

He also points out Marlin won the first SBC Championship ever and that is true to my knowledge. Coach Evans and Coach Lee did not win any outright season championships. But if it comes down to 3 games in March, do those season championships mean as much as NCAA bids? I can tell you it didn't when Coach Evans was here, most people hated losing to Western Kentucky or Middle Tennessee, but the NCAA Tournament bids were fun.

So, while I agree with most of his comments, the improvement of the UL MBB over the last 5 years doesn't change my question, what should be fans reasonable expectation for NCAA appearances in years? Yes, we have 1 in the last 5 seasons.

One in the last 8 seasons.

[VObserver]

I have no problem with his argument that there shouldn't be any discussion of firing him. The problem I do have is he talks about the last 5 seasons, completely dismissing the first three seasons. So its also fair to say that we have 1 Conference Championship, 1 NCAA Tournament Bid and 1 NIT Bid in 8 seasons. That is the entirety of his tenure.

He also points out Marlin won the first SBC Championship ever and that is true to my knowledge. Coach Evans and Coach Lee did not win any outright season championships. But if it comes down to 3 games in March, do those season championships mean as much as NCAA bids? I can tell you it didn't when Coach Evans was here, most people hated losing to Western Kentucky or Middle Tennessee, but the NCAA Tournament bids were fun.

So, while I agree with most of his comments, the improvement of the UL MBB over the last 5 years doesn't change my question, what should be fans reasonable expectation for NCAA appearances in years? Yes, we have 1 in the last 5 seasons.

We have not really improved over the last 5 years. We have been third, fourth, fourth, sixth and first in a conference that has no MTSU and no WKU. Our record looks a little better, but any way you slice it we are 54-85 against the top 200 RPI over the last 8 years, with only 2 years in that span being above .500 against that level of competition.