MBB G11 Final: Louisiana 62 Tech 83

[Cajunfanatico]

Guess I don't get it Vic. No one else seems to be able to do it, so why should we?

If I'd have had that attitude when my company was competing against Schlumberger and Halliburton, I wouldn't have been able to retire 18 years ago as I'd still have a little mom & pop shop and been all comfy because it just wasn't worth it to try to improve so I could compete with them.

[Jacob81]

Guess I don't get it Vic. No one else seems to be able to do it, so why should we?

If I'd have had that attitude when my company was competing against Schlumberger and Halliburton, I wouldn't have been able to retire 18 years ago as I'd still have a little mom & pop shop and been all comfy because it just wasn't worth it to try to improve so I could compete with them.

Dude I don’t know if it’s your reading skills or comprehension skills. But I mentioned 3 different times that the conversation about mid majors in the south had nothing to do with marlin or our program. It’s a talking point.

I go to most of the basketball games when we’re good or not. You think I want to be mediocre, I want basketball to be irrelevant? I’d love to see the old Blackham days come back. I personally don’t think the 4 letter words will allow it these days. But it would be great, the stories are awesome.

[CajunVic]

Guess I don't get it Vic. No one else seems to be able to do it, so why should we?

If I'd have had that attitude when my company was competing against Schlumberger and Halliburton, I wouldn't have been able to retire 18 years ago as I'd still have a little mom & pop shop and been all comfy because it just wasn't worth it to try to improve so I could compete with them.

Some people are entrepreneurs, visionaries, risk takers . . . Others are safekeepers . . . do what is safe and steady and just stay the course. Our basketball coach is a safe keeper. Those in the first class play the whole season for a spot at the dance, those in the second get a nice winning record which is nothing but that, play for 3 games in March for a spot at the dance then beitch because they were overlooked for the dance with such a nice record if the 3 games don't pan out, all while knowing that the nice record will never have done a damn thing but save their job for another year.

[Cajunfanatico]

Jacob, I haven't been disrespectful of you. In fact, I've defended you. Please drop the "dude", okay.

My entire point is that because something is FREAKIN HARD is not an excuse to fold.....and I too am not talking about Bob Marlin or our basketball program. I'm talkin about life in general. If you want to be the best at what you do, you don't worry about how FREAKIN HARD it is or whether or not others are doing it today. Just do it.

As it relates to our basketball program, I don't believe we're really trying to be the best any longer.

If you'd like to convince me otherwise, I'd be happy to hear you out. If you agree, then we really have no argument here.

PS My reading and comprehension skills are generally pretty good, unless I'm reading a Boomer post.

[Jacob81]

Some people are entrepreneurs, visionaries, risk takers . . . Others are safekeepers . . . do what is safe and steady and just stay the course. Our basketball coach is a safe keeper. Those in the first class play the whole season for a spot at the dance, those in the second get a nice winning record which is nothing but that, play for 3 games in March for a spot at the dance then beitch because they were overlooked for the dance with such a nice record if the 3 games don't pan out, all while knowing that the nice record will never have done a damn thing but save their job for another year.

Yeah. You just summed up current NCAA basketball. Win conference tourney hope for run in dance.
We can go 3-30 and get in the NCAA tourney
We can go 30-3 and not get in. Which would you prefer to sit through.

[Cajunfanatico]

Yeah. You just summed up current NCAA basketball. Win conference tourney hope for run in dance.
We can go 3-30 and get in the NCAA tourney
We can go 30-3 and not get in. Which would you prefer to sit through.

Depends on who we're playing.

[Jacob81]

Sorry about the dude, no disrespect meant by it. It’s common tongue with my friends. I’m not saying bob is giving us our moneys worth, but come on, you don’t think he’s trying hard enough. He seems like a hard nose worker to me. Maybe it’s his tone, I don’t know. 9 years is a lot and maybe its time for a change.

But we keep winning 20 games a year against I don’t care who and compete in conference and win some conference tourneys more often than we are currently. I can enjoy that team.

We can all want a consistent power, possible at large team year in and out. We can also hope to jump straight to the big 12 in football.

I own my own company which is “mom and pop”,The way I like it. I could hope to be a millionaire but it won’t happen unless I want to take on major physical or mental stress. So no, it won’t happen, but I can hope. My Cajuns and golf game stress me out enough. Haha.

[Jacob81]

Depends on who we're playing.

Like go 3-30 against all top 100rpi would be better than 30-3 against our current schedules. Similar to the season we had last year.

[CajunRebel]

Would it be asking too much that we dominate the Sun Belt then, or is that really FREAKIN' HARD as well?

Uh, we went 16-2 in conference last year and won the conference championship.

[Cajunfanatico]

I own my own company which is “mom and pop”,The way I like it. I could hope to be a millionaire but it won’t happen unless I want to take on major physical or mental stress. So no, it won’t happen, but I can hope. My Cajuns and golf game stress me out enough. Haha.

Hope's not usually a very sound strategy, especially for becoming a millionaire, but you probably already know that.

I've actually said nothing negative at all about Bob Marlin. If he believes that he's doing exactly what Dr. Maggard wants him to do, then my beef is really with Maggard and not Marlin. However, I don't think that's the case. I'm no insider but believe Maggard expects more.

I'm sure Marlin's a decent man and a decent basketball coach, just no longer the coach this program needs today. We need all our sports, the most important ones anyway, running on 8 cylinders, and sooner, rather than later. We're not going to win any races with what's on the court these days.