Bob Marlin

[cajuns80]

This thread is absurd.

Marlin has some of his key starters coming back for next year, and one hell of a recruiting class. Firing him now would be dumb, as we’d be hitting reset on the building momentum for next season.

A class with no big. They are in much bigger trouble next year no matter how much talent we have in the backcourt. Which I agree, Wilson & Julien will help a ton, but we will much much worse without Gant in the middle.

[Balanced_view]

A class with no big. They are in much bigger trouble next year no matter how much talent we have in the backcourt. Which I agree, Wilson & Julien will help a ton, but we will much much worse without Gant in the middle.

dont forget Johnson will look very similar to Grant next year also. but we really need a true post presence

[ULvictory]

Well then we know what he should accomplish with his deepest team ever then.

We heard the same thing for the 2017-2018 season. We were "deep."

Yet, Gant gets hurt; and we don't even make the conference final. So much for having that depth.

It'll be the same song and dance once again. 15-20 wins against inferior competition with an early exit from the conference tournament. I will keep saying it until this program proves me otherwise.

[CrazyCajun]

We heard the same thing for the 2017-2018 season. We were "deep."

Yet, Gant gets hurt; and we don't even make the conference final. So much for having that depth.

It'll be the same song and dance once again. 15-20 wins against inferior competition with an early exit from the conference tournament. I will keep saying it until this program proves me otherwise.

My point is, the coaches and their minions are providing their own rope by continuing to say how good their recruiting is.

[CajunEXPRESS]

this is the problem we and ( Dr. Maggard) faces. Marlins 9 year track record at Louisiana warrants him being let go, point blank. but in the 2 years Dr. Maggard has been here, Marlin has most likely recruited his 2 best recruiting classes and has won a conference reg season championship. next years team on paper should be the deepest team coach has had, ,talent wise including several high level recruits, including 2 top in-state talents. i would predict Dr. Maggard eats this years results and give one final chance for coach Marlin next year before making a move.

We’ve got one top in state talent. As confident as I am about Kobe he was never considered top in state by anyone of note. And Malik Wilson wasn’t highly recruited by any important basketball program.

Don’t worry if the Big Fish doesn’t impress, as is very likely we’ll hear all the normal background noise. Too young, waiting for chemistry, injuries, targeted by everyone, gyms too nice, doesn’t have a practice facility on Rex street.

[ULvictory]

My point is, the coaches and their minions are providing their own rope by continuing to say how good their recruiting is.

Oh, it was great this year too. Remember?

But then, one of our starters got injured; and it was all downhill from there.

I'm sick and tired of the excuses. After every loss, it's because of Mardi Gras.......or player X and player Y getting injured............or the altitude at App State........or the Women's game going to OT which caused less practice time to make 3 pointers.........or teams get up for us because we are their Super Bowl........or muh 27 games.......

That doesn't justify a salary that's the highest in the conference. If I hear this nonsense again next year with the same, average results, well.........

[VObserver]

You are very kind to call Bigfish's results average.

[CajunEXPRESS]

UTA fired their coach for finishing 4th too often. Most teams either excell, or fail utterly. So Big Fish stays in the GoldiLock zone. Never winning big, never failing utterly.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Okay for the 2nd best program in the state. Here's some results. LTUR, UNeaux, the Hoax all move on.

[Duckster]

Let's see. Coach Marlin has been less successful than Marty Fletcher, Jesse Evans, and Bobby Paschal, yet more successful than Robert Lee. He is still here because the the measurement of success for MBB is obviously lower than from late 70's to early 2000's. We have to ask ourselves and Administration why is that? Will this remain a $500K job, or will we shoot for the stars and aim for a $1MM year coach plus charter fights for most out of state away games to elevate the program. Those decisions/ strategies need to come into focus ahead of a potential head coach change. I'd tell Coach make NCAA or NiT next season or pack your bags. In the meantime prepare to execute the next coach-program strategy because we're spinning our wheels now.

[Turbine]

Pure speculation. No freshman in Marlin's tenure has been freshman of the year IIRC, though Long might have been.

To my point he "always" makes players better.

This year I realized he only focuses on the starting lineup.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Clearly all coaches make players better or they couldn’t keep their jobs. Well apparently Talbot is the exception to that rule.