Marlin Contract Extension - FOUR MORE YEARS!

[zeppelincajun]

1/5 of your arena capacity is terrible.

A healthy program sells 1/3rd of your seating capacity in season tickets. A thriving program can sell 50%.

We aren’t remotely close in our two major sports. Football is a university problem and basketball is a coach problem.

Well if we look at attendance in comparison to venue size, basketball has a serious venue issue, and as critical as I am of Bob, that cannot be placed at his feet. Even if we were to get to the 4,500 number you mentioned earlier, we would still be operating at less than 40% full. My pipe dream in that regard would be a venue identical to what McNeese just built with MAYBE 1,000 more seats. Baseball, football, and basketball are oversized at this point. It would be nice to play in an appropriately sized venue for once.

[CajunEXPRESS]

None were oversized when conceived

[R1Letterman]

7 Coaches Breakdown

Thanks for posting. All in all seems we have been successful, should we be thankful?

[ZoomZoom]

Thanks for posting. All in all seems we have been successful, should we be thankful?

Kinda like this?

[fanof71]

Thanks for posting. All in all seems we have been successful, should we be thankful?

We?

[BBOYD]

Well this thread has been...ummmm..interesting.

95% of people who care about UL basketball, want this guy gone… How will he ever build this better than what Jesse did, it was easy to over come what LEE did… 20 years ago we had 6K+ at all the games

[ZoomZoom]

20 years ago we had 6K+ at all the games

Uh, no. Have not even AVERAGED 6k in 30 years (93-94). In fact, only other year at 6k or more was the very first season in the dome.

[CajunVic]

95% of people who care about UL basketball, want this guy gone… How will he ever build this better than what Jesse did, it was easy to over come what LEE did… 20 years ago we had 6K+ at all the games

. . . dude . . . stop and go get you some more D1 experience . . . things are now set up perfect for you, besides, the decision has been made so there is no going back . . . the timeline is set, be the best applicant . . . and the Big Fish may Peter out on his own before 4 years so be ready early . . .

[ZoomZoom]

In fact, only three games
break the top 20 (NMSU @ 19, Denver @ 13, WKU @ 8) for attendance come from this century. I just keep these two documents in my file when people “misremember” every year or so.

The dome has never sold out for UL MBB. It was built to draw concerts that BR had the market cornered on more than a basketball arena. A 7k arena would be dead to the major concert market, much like the Lake Charles Civic Center.

[Cajunsmike]

How recently has this resignation and reassignment happen?

I think this question is in reference to Assistant Coach Donovan Kates resigning to take a job closer to family. I believed that happened in May.
The reassignment which occurred last year was to move Neil Hardin to the Scouting Director role. He took the lead on reviewing upcoming opponents tendencies while mentoring the new coaches for that skill. In effect, Kates replaced Brock Morris and Casey Perrin replaced Coach Hardin as one of the three allowed assistants. At this point, Kates has not been replaced. Our website shows only two assistants (Derrick Zimmerman and Casey Perrin). It continues to show Coach Hardin as Director of Scouting. In practical terms, I am sure Coach Hardin will serve as the third assistant going forward despite his website title. All other support staff members return. There are some new managers of course as those are students who graduate.

[cajun4life]

Uh, no. Have not even AVERAGED 6k in 30 years (93-94). In fact, only other year at 6k or more was the very first season in the dome.

So midweek games averaged 3800-4200 and weekend games was 5800-6800 during the 97-05 seasons.

[JMV JustMyView]

Well if we look at attendance in comparison to venue size, basketball has a serious venue issue, and as critical as I am of Bob, that cannot be placed at his feet. Even if we were to get to the 4,500 number you mentioned earlier, we would still be operating at less than 40% full. My pipe dream in that regard would be a venue identical to what McNeese just built with MAYBE 1,000 more seats. Baseball, football, and basketball are oversized at this point. It would be nice to play in an appropriately sized venue for once.

MAT said Blackham is the answer.