Marlin Set To Return ( Retaining Players Paramount )

[ManAboutTown]

I wasn't upset that bustle got let go and won't be if marlin gets let go. I can assure you the team that hud took over was the best talent that bustle had assembled here. I know he felt that he would have had his best team to date. They would have probably ended up in the same place, at the end of the year, if bustle would have remained coach, as they did with hud.

That’s actually a great point and yet another comp with Marlin/Bustle.

If we move on from Bob, the next coach probably comes in and takes us to the dance…

[ULvictory]

Oh, Kyle, you are so full of crap.
2. What have I "blamed the fans" for? I said there are fans who have acted (and said on this board) that the program is in the pits. I said that wasn't true. UL has the second most league wins 2014-present. And, while I respect those who think it might be time for a change, the facts are what they are. I will admit there has been some slippage the last three or four years. But this program is FAR from the pits.

4. Jessie Evans was almost 20 years ago. The game has changed since then and so has the interest in basketball in the deep south. Now we only look at football until almost Christmas and then spring sports take center stage over the last four weeks of basketball.

Basketball is an afterthought for Cajun fans. Nothing is going to change that. Football and spring sports will always be more important.

Basketball is an afterthought because we haven't been consistent, and the product has turned stale. People don't show up when you don't win. It even took Billy to win big to get the fans back to Cajun Field. We saw the attendance numbers during Hud's last season. They were pretty bad.

Also since 2018, we have the 6th most league wins. That's 4 full seasons where we have, for the most part, underachieved. I remember when we drew over 5,000 in 2018 after making some fun runs and the Cajundome having some excitement inside of it. Even this past weekend many fans who had basically quit on basketball got excited about us playing in the championship game.

I know we aren't going to draw the 7-8,000 we used to draw. But I also don't think that the fan base will always use basketball as an afterthought. I have run into many people around town who are just waiting for a spark in the program so they can get interested again. As far as Marlin goes, I'm like you. I'll let Dr. Maggard decide that.

[Turbine]

Ahh yes year 13 will be when Marlin puts it all together.. lol just a reminder some on here were upset we let go of Bustle.

Bustle would have had several winning seasons he had had 5 more years.

If Baldwin had been given 9 more years he would have had.. ok not Baldwin.

Marlin's biography "The Five Year Leash."

[Scott Malkinson]

That’s actually a great point and yet another comp with Marlin/Bustle.

If we move on from Bob, the next coach probably comes in and takes us to the dance…

A lot of people are forgetting we are adding 4 new schools for basketball. Marshall skull drug Marlin this past year

[KajunKrazy]

That’s actually a great point and yet another comp with Marlin/Bustle.

If we move on from Bob, the next coach probably comes in and takes us to the dance…

You may be right. I just don't see the sun belt conference as a destination job for that up and comer that wants to move on in basketball as I do in football. I would not expect to get a coach with a resume as good as Bob marlins was when he was hired. He brought SHST to the dance a couple of times if I recall, had multiple regular season championships, and knock off top ranked Kentucky as Bearcats coach.

Not saying we shouldn't move on but I wouldn't expect some great splash of a hire.

[Scott Malkinson]

I wasn't upset that bustle got let go and won't be if marlin gets let go. I can assure you the team that hud took over was the best talent that bustle had assembled here. I know he felt that he would have had his best team to date. They would have probably ended up in the same place, at the end of the year, if bustle would have remained coach, as they did with hud.

Yeah Jay Johnson was 1000x better OC and was the straw that stirred the drink

[ULvictory]

You may be right. I just don't see the sun belt conference as a destination job for that up and comer that wants to move on in basketball as I do in football. I would not expect to get a coach with a resume as good as Bob marlins was when he was hired. He brought SHST to the dance a couple of times if I recall, had multiple regular season championships, and knock off top ranked Kentucky as Bearcats coach.

Not saying we shouldn't move on but I wouldn't expect some great splash of a hire.

The job is definitely attractive enough for an "up and comer." There's assistant coaches all over the place looking for that first real opportunity. And we have the resources to allow him to succeed.

[Scott Malkinson]

The job is definitely attractive enough for an "up and comer." There's assistant coaches all over the place looking for that first real opportunity. And we have the resources to allow him to succeed.

Just look at Texas where did their HC get his start ?

[ManAboutTown]

If Billy Napier (apology for the swear) can parlay our football job into Florida, some young coach can DEFINITELY turn our basketball job into an elite level job. Brad Stevens went from Butler to the freaking Celtics, an NBA blue blood.

[RedBug58]

Will Wade may be available shortly. He knows how to get good recruits.