Cal's Jacobi Gordon Commits to Louisiana MBB

[60swerethebest]

I hate the “potential” label but this team being assembled will have potential. Hopefully not for roles on Gray’s Anatomy. Or Dr. Oz.

[cajun4life]

Bro Big Guppy is here as long as he wants to be here. Playing in front of no fans won’t bother him one bit. Since he doesn’t play in front of many fans anyway.

The Robert Lee hire was the death nail in this program. Only to be followed by the crypt keeper. It’s done, toast, men’s basketball will never be a perennial NCAA tournament team ever again.

[Turbine]

Bro Big Guppy is here as long as he wants to be here. Playing in front of no fans won't bother him one bit. Since he doesn't play in front of many fans anyway.

The Robert Lee hire was the death nail in this program. Only to be followed by the crypt keeper. It's done, toast, men's basketball will never be a perennial NCAA tournament team ever again.

The nation wide search with the Glynn Cyprien hire was first domino.

The second domino was then novice David Walker publicly stating that Robert Lee came in second.

Third domino (which I supported) was the hire.

Fourth domino was APR violations and multiple program reboots and excuse after excuse to keep Lee.

Unfortunately the multiple reboots have become more common under Marlin.

[ZoomZoom]

men's basketball will never be a perennial NCAA tournament team ever again.

Perennial, as in pre death penalty, I get.

6 NCAA appearances post death penalty isn't. 6 in 40 years. This slide has gotten worse with every hire since BP. Marty the blind squirrel, Jessie's appearances tainted, Cyprien train wreck, Lee propped up, and now "Can't get a break Bob". No pun intended towards injured players; always something.

We have the right AD. We don't have the money to fix this.

[cajun_lannister]

Perennial, as in pre death penalty, I get.

6 NCAA appearances post death penalty isn't. 6 in 40 years. This slide has gotten worse with every hire since BP. Marty the blind squirrel, Jessie's appearances tainted, Cyprien train wreck, Lee propped up, and now "Can't get a break Bob". No pun intended towards injured players; always something.

We have the right AD. We don't have the money to fix this.

After this season it will cost us more to keep big game bobby than hiring a new one.. if he does not make
the ncaa tournament and gets an extension dropping my Rcaf to zero and just getting GA tickets for football

[Turbine]

This slide has gotten worse with every hire since BP.

Wow, never thought of it like that.

Very astute "big picture" observation.

[SlickRick]

All these moves has certainly generated a lot of interest, me included.

[ZoomZoom]

Wow, never thought of it like that.

Very astute "big picture" observation.

Thanks. If you track our ADs since TDP, you can almost but not quite mirror the decline. The periods where football was nomadic and later on life support is where guidance and supervision was lost with basketball.

That's what I mean we got the right AD. Some might not think he's being aggressive enough, but none of us know exactly the discussions between Maggard and Marlin. I trust Maggard can help get us better, but I don't realistically see the pre death penalty days ever returning.

[cajunfan96]

Loaded up on injury prones players to get knocked out the second round of the belt tournament?

Big Fish could not get us pass first round post season with NBA lottery picks.

[zephyr]

One more time, head coach is ultimately responsible for all results, good and bad. If my post indicated I did not realize that, I assure you I do. Dou did struggle much of the year but improved quite a bit in the final portion of the season. I predict that improvement to continue. Agree none of us know how all these moves will work out. On paper, we have improved talent significantly. Of course the injury and eligibility issues make it understandable that some are skeptical.

Mike I think we all understand what you are saying. As you know, there is just a large segment here that feel there are nothing but excuses every year we don't accomplish what we can or should. I agree with C4L, I just have this weird feeling that Marlin will somehow have found himself here for 20 years with a very limited resume to point to. We had improved our roster "on paper" the last few years with little success. What will be the reason if that talent is not realized this year?

I'm not even worried about eligibility for incoming guys anymore as our program has become a seemingly revolving door of personnel so it may not even matter if there is a good chance a guy could come in for a year and leave again like we saw this year.