MBB G13 Final: Louisiana 73, SLU 72

[Cajunsmike]

You can't buy into a bowl game my friend, sorry they are not comparable at all. There's almost zero chance a program like UL could play in a bowl game with a losing record. The CBI and CIT are jokes if you are willing to front the money. Thank God we have a AD that believes such tournaments are not worth the funds from our athletic department.

I have not heard Dr. Maggard say basketball cannot play in the buy in tournaments. Not saying that he has not made that decision. If so, it is news to me. Is it an official position now? Perhaps he would be OK with it if donors picked up the costs.

[CrazyCajun]

Man, we are getting way off base. But, to add on football and basketball also bring in more revenue from everything from donations to ticket sales to revenue sharing.

Absolutely they do, they cost a lot more also and get more help from the university that’s all im saying. We are fortunate here in that our baseball and softball programs are a lot less of a drag on the budget than majority of universities.

[cajun_lannister]

Last year was set up to be special and that is why that loss in the tournament hurt so much. If anything the season sacrificed for last year was 2 years ago, when he chose to have 3 scholarships sitting on the bench as transfers. He didn't choose to have 2 scholarships on the bench this year due to torn ACLs.

You live by Transfers you die by transfers much like football building a team with jucos has it's repercussions.

The ugly side of it is that we burned 3 scholarships and 3 years of development of for 1 year of success.

[Cajunsmike]

“We lost in the Sun Belt tournament because Gant got injured.”

Forget the fact that we had 3 1,000 point scorers minus Gant and a bench that’s supposedly good enough to carry the weight.....

Again, we are a program of excuses and reasons why we CAN’T succeed. I don’t see this anywhere else in our program other than basketball. When football underachieved, we hired Napier. When baseball underachieved, Robe got us a new hitting coach. In basketball, it’s the same song and dance. “Well, the reason why we can’t do this is because of that.” No accountability whatsoever.

We also did not have Stove against UTA in the semi finals. Tough not having two of your top 6 players for any team against a quality opponent. Showed our depth was not as strong as we estimated last year. Probably would have been OK if we had only one out but two was challenging. Regarding accountability, Has anyone Asked Dr. Maggard why he gave the extension when he did? If so, what was response?

[CajunT]

I have not heard Dr. Maggard say basketball cannot play in the buy in tournaments. Not saying that he has not made that decision. If so, it is news to me. Is it an official position now? Perhaps he would be OK with it if donors picked up the costs.

I spoke to him about last year in Houston. It's not something he is found of after listening to his comments.

[Cajunsmike]

If it's so unfair pay marlin 100k and pump the would be basketball money into sports that have a chance. The extra money would go a long way in other sports here. Btw Glasco & Napire have both coached in the same number of Sunbelt championship games as Marlin... imagine what they could do with 8 years and an extra few hundred thousand

That can't happen now since he has a signed contract.

[Cajunfanatico]

WELL, GUESS WHAT. IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS WE'VE BEEN IN THE TOP FOUR IN THE LEAGUE FOUR TIMES.

NEXT.

Don't know about everyone else here, but this doesn't impress me. Is it supposed to?

[Cajunsmike]

Just throwing this out there, but I would say that if spending a few more bucks on softball would be what it would take to have the crowds in place to help the girls get to the WCWS, I'd gladly take that money from the basketball program.

Yes, I know........NCAA tournament $$$, eyeballs around the nation for basketball versus softball, yada yada yada......that's just how I feel.

I don't think you need to take money from any sport to help softball. Their core supporters can make up what is needed to take the next step. Appears that is happening.

[Cajunfanatico]

I don't think you need to take money from any sport to help softball. Their core supporters can make up what is needed to take the next step. Appears that is happening.

Thanks Mike. Just another indiciation then of the relative "health" of that sport at this university.

[Cajunsmike]

Surely you jest 😂😂😂😂😂Saint Bobby, not street Bobby.

Marlin stole EP. it’s common knowledge EP wasn’t believed to be an early high school graduate. Well this same crowd used to bragg on ol Bobby getting EP under P5 noses even before he became legend.

Think you are confusing EP with Elijah McGuire. I don't recall any conversation related to when EP would graduate from HS. We took him because we saw things others did not. He did take his team to the state semi finals his senior year and earned his scholarship offer there. He was a late bloomer. No doubt about that. We need to find another one like him.

[Cajunsmike]

So after 22 pages of crap, I believe we can all agree that Basketball at UL sucks mightily and its not the players fault. Am I right?

Z

Depends on your definition of "suck". Players being brought in have simply not been good enough to win at a higher level. That is not their fault as most of them have worked hard to improve in their time here. However, when you think about it from that perspective, we are saying we really did not want them here as some should have been playing in the SLC.

[Hatch]

You live by Transfers you die by transfers much like football building a team with jucos has it's repercussions.

The ugly side of it is that we burned 3 scholarships and 3 years of development of for 1 year of success.

Transfers are part of the recipe for success at the mid major level. Bringing in 3 at one time is somewhat unprecedented but part of the reason that was done was because the top high school signee passed away earlier that summer. It’s not like there was a plan to throw this season away, and I still think this team has a chance to be a contender in the conference.