MBB G13 Final: Louisiana 73, SLU 72

[ManAboutTown]

This team is exceeding my expectations after losing multiple minute-hogging-seniors from last years 27 win season.

Really? Your expectations must be laughably low. We return 3 starters from last year, supposedly the best recruit we’ve gotten in a long while in Russell (who also played plenty of minutes), added a decent transfer in Hayes and probably have the SBC player of the year on the roster.

This SHOULD NOT be a rebuild year. But many of you are acting like it is. Which again, is purely social club power hour.

Wake the hell up.

[ManAboutTown]

I don't recall SLU ever winning an NCAA tournament game. When did that occur. The only Louisiana SLC team I remember winning one in recent years was when Northwestern State did back when Robert Lee was here and we were really struggling.

My mistake, that was what I was thinking of.

[Cajunsmike]

Really? Your expectations must be laughably low. We return 3 starters from last year, supposedly the best recruit we’ve gotten in a long while in Russell (who also played plenty of minutes), added a decent transfer in Wesley and probably have the SBC player of the year on the roster.

This SHOULD NOT be a rebuild year. But many of you are acting like it is. Which again, is purely social club power hour.

Wake the hell up.

Wesley is a freshman, not a transfer. Jeremy Hayes is a JUCO tranfer brought on board due to the Kobe Julien injury. Jalen Johonson is a tranfer from St. Louis sitting out this year and he will be the team's best player next season. Johnson is originally from Baton Rouge and we recruited him out of HS. Cedric Russell's struggles this season are frustrating as he played better last season. Perhaps the off season surgery he has is affecting him.

[ManAboutTown]

Wesley is a freshman, not a transfer. Jeremy Hayes is a JUCO tranfer brought on board due to the Kobe Julien injury. Jalen Johonson is a tranfer from St. Louis sitting out this year and he will be the team's best player next season. Johnson is originally from Baton Rouge and we recruited him out of HS. Cedric Russell's struggles this season are frustrating as he played better last season. Perhaps the off season surgery he has is affecting him.

Hayes, my bad. Shooting from the hip this morning. You can see how much I’ve paid attention to basketball this season.

[Ragin4U]

Disagree that UL would be better off if football dominated and MBB was dropped. Researching Butler's program after our conversation last night, their 2011 and 2012 tourney runs got them an estimated $1.2 billion in publicity alone. Now, we would have to catch lightning in a bottle to get close to two NCG in a row but there is a lot of money to be made in basketball.

[MetryCajun]

I would rather us drop MBB & WBB before we lose a dime of financial support for football.

Thanks for posting this. Now we all know your opinions on men's basketball are meaningless and are not to be taken seriously.
I feel the same way about softball, which is why I never give my opinions.

[Crawfish]

CE has expressed the same opinion 450 different times in this thread. We get it, you don't like the coach.

[MetryCajun]

This team is simply not good enough to accomplish all you hope for this season. Not a surprise to me considering the quality of the three senior leaders of last year. Injuries are a factor of course which indicates lack of depth as a problem. That would be the case regardless who was coaching them. Of course he recruited them so he is ultimately responsible.

Spot on. This team has two difference makers and an above average PG. Everyone else are role players who have good games and bad games. Yesterday it was Hardy with some big plays and Miller who had a rough time. Next game it will probably be Miller who steps up. With only 3 players you can count on it will be tough for this team to string together wins. After watching the team yesterday I came away with the feeling that recruiting and not X's and O's coaching is our problem. The execution down the stretch shows Marlin knows what he is doing. He is just not getting good enough HS players. Right now all of our best players are p5 transfers. If he cant get more P5 transfers or more polished HS players ASAP he will not be here for long.

[cajun_lannister]

Thanks for posting this. Now we all know your opinions on men's basketball are meaningless and are not to be taken seriously.
I feel the same way about softball, which is why I never give my opinions.

Marlin has drove me to that opinion with the constant excuses and woe is me

And softball has had more national exposure on espn the last 10 years than MBB and WBB combined

[MetryCajun]

Marlin has drove me to that opinion with the constant excuses and woe is me

And softball has had more national exposure on espn the last 10 years than MBB and WBB combined

How you came to your opinion is immaterial. You have stated your wishes about MBB and WBB. Anyone who wants to drop MBB is not the type of fan we need input from to move the team forward.

[CAJUNJUDO]

Get real man. Supporting football and supporting basketball isn't one or the other. Look at MTSU or WKU.

We pay about $300k more than we should for what we get out of Bob Marlin. I promise you we could pay someone like David Patrick or hell even Brad Boyd half of what we pay Marlin and get the same results with this schedule.

We accept a mediocre team with good results with a terrible schedule. It's ok if we were destroying teams by 30, but we aren't. Bob Marlin is so vastly overpaid.

Considering neither MTSU or WKU stand out as solid programs in both sports, I had to look them up.

MTSU = 3-9 in basketball right now (they may turn it around)
WKU = 3-9 in football (I pray we don’t resort back to the Baldwin days)

Is that who you want to emulate? How about you get real.

I agree with you that we pay way too much for Marlin. I wouldn’t be opposed to a change either. Brad Boyd did beat a ranked Mississippi State team on the road with WKU’s Stansbury at the helm, but I’m not suggesting we hire him.

[cajun_lannister]

How you came to your opinion is immaterial. You have stated your wishes about MBB and WBB. Anyone who wants to drop MBB is not the type of fan we need input from to move the team forward.

You prolly do our group of 15 use to go to 10-12 games a year and now we go to zero

We continue to go to Football, Softball and Baseball regularly.