MBB COACH

[CajunJeaux]

I just dont understand:
I felt we were SOOOO close to ridding ourselves of this poor performer a year or two ago.
Then - like a broken clock - he was "right' (lucky: most people knew we went to NCAAs IN SPITE OF - not BECAUSE of the coach) ONE TIME in 9 years, and all of a sudden he gets that idiotic extension! Is there not ANY up and comer that Maggard could have found???

People. His contract CALLED for this extension.

[Cajunsmike]

Taking a HS superstar and teaching them to function as part of a team is coaching them up.

Taking a HS player with great unfulfilled potential and coaching them up to a higher level is something I have never seen out of Bob Marlin.

Taking players in general and teaching them to play with team and individual discipline is something he has no clue how to do.

When the team won conference I was told by some players on the team that it was PLAYERS that made the team work, not the coach. Those players wanted better for themselves and for the team so they had more to do with the team success than the coach.

ALL the good teams are player led. Will Wade recently said that is a reason the current McNeese team is having success. Tony said the same thing about his best baseball teams. Go back to our football success of 2019 to 2021. The leadership provided by Levi Lewis was a huge factor in that success.

[Cajunsmike]

Marlin does none of the individual workouts with players … So how did he develop Kentrell. Garnett made Garnett better… There is no Love In the CITY for the head coach which trickles down to the players unfortunately…

Kentrell deserves a lot of the credit for his improvement. Assistant coaches also are part of that development.

[tdncz]

People. His contract CALLED for this extension.

What about a Buyout??? Look back to 2022 Threads: There WAS a way....

[babysitter]

I completely disagree.

He coaches players up, but fails miserably at getting them to function as a team.

Thats why he needs "super stars" to win and they come along once every 5 years.

I hope his every so often star player never goes down, the team could go winless.

And what "super star" have we ever been blessed with since Marlin has been here. Please enlighten.

[Turbine]

And what "super star" have we ever been blessed with since Marlin has been here. Please enlighten.

One was drafted as a junior after starting college a year younger than most.

His defensive game got better and better under Marlin.

[CajunJeaux]

And what "super star" have we ever been blessed with since Marlin has been here. Please enlighten.

Elfrid Payton & Shawn Long.

[CajunVic]

Elfrid Payton & Shawn Long.

. . . these two guys were some pretty darn good basketball players . . .

[facelessjonmoon]

One was drafted as a junior after starting college a year younger than most.

His defensive game got better and better under Marlin.

That same player was National College Defensive Player of the Year as well as an NBA lottery pick. I'd say he qualifies

[old alum]

Elfrid Payton & Shawn Long.

You named the two best of the Marlin years, and you are 100% correct. 2014 and 2015. Nobody of any merit has wanted to be part of our program since they left. Had we had NIL when they were here they would have left after 1 season.