MBB G11 Final: Louisiana 62 Tech 83

[ManAboutTown]

I’m not a victim. I feel sorry for those who can’t support half of the athletic programs at any given time because said program isn’t great every year. But I’m glad y’all arent there. I hate sitting next to the guy that verbally complains the whole game like y’all do here. Just shut up and watch the game or go bang your head on a wall. If I want to constantly surround myself with negativity, I’ll stay home and watch the news all day.

Once again, self awareness alludes you. You are on a message board. The board is a tool/outlet for fans to discuss these exact topics. While complaining does happen here, this thread is not one of those times.

Also, I’ve not seen many say they flat out refuse to support the basketball program. For example, my son pestered me for a week to go to the LaTech game. Because our bowl plans fell apart, I took him. I could have bought the cheapest GA ticket, snuck in a pack of skittles and sat on my hands like the majority of our fan base does. We bought premium tickets, snacks, a shirt, and of course I had a couple beers. That is support sir. I would not spend foolishly like that on any other program in America. I did it because it’s UL.

All that being said, I would gladly get my season tickets back and join rebounders club if we’d make a true commitment to basketball. I would also be completely fine with the reality of cutting basketball money to give it to football and baseball. The constant defense of Marlin, the pretend commitment to basketball and the arrogance of our social club fans and coaching staff has completely turned me off. I am not the only who feels this way.

[Jacob81]

Your absolutely not the only one that feels that way. Thanks for reluctantly attending the game for the love of your son. I bet he enjoyed your company( and constant complaining) despite the outcome.

[ManAboutTown]

Your absolutely not the only one that feels that way. Thanks for reluctantly attending the game for the love of your son. I bet he enjoyed your company( and constant complaining) despite the outcome.

**You’re. Anyway...

I don’t complain at basketball games.
When you’re irrelevant, complaining feels even more futile than usual.

[VObserver]

Allow me to put an allegorical story in here that I think states the position held by me and several others with reference to the UL basketball program.

Think of UL Basketball as your child. He is a good kid; he never gives any trouble, makes good grades in high school, and tells you he wants to be a mechanical engineer. You love your kid, and you want the best for him, so you take the plunge and send him to Colorado School of Mines. You hock your house to pay his expenses, and you tell him that you and his mom are making great sacrifices for his future, and that you expect him to work hard and make the dean's list nearly every semester, and to become a great engineer.

Well, he gets to CSM and finds out that it is hard to make great grades in mechanical engineering. After a couple of years, having made the Dean's list only one semester, he changes his major to music appreciation, a major which only requires him to sit in class and listen to Classical Music for 9 hours a week, with an 'A' given for perfect attendance. Of course, he starts making the Dean's list every semester.

What is your response as his parent?

Mine, and I think MAT's, Express' and Fanatico's, would be to cut off his funding until he got his sorry butt back into a more challenging curriculum with a better future.

Yours seems to be to heap praise on him for making the Dean's list.

[Jacob81]

Allow me to put an allegorical story in here that I think states the position held by me and several others with reference to the UL basketball program.

Think of UL Basketball as your child. He is a good kid; he never gives any trouble, makes good grades in high school, and tells you he wants to be a mechanical engineer. You love your kid, and you want the best for him, so you take the plunge and send him to Colorado School of Mines. You hock your house to pay his expenses, and you tell him that you and his mom are making great sacrifices for his future, and that you expect him to work hard and make the dean's list nearly every semester, and to become a great engineer.

Well, he gets to CSM and finds out that it is hard to make great grades in mechanical engineering. After a couple of years, having made the Dean's list only one semester, he changes his major to music appreciation, a major which only requires him to sit in class and listen to Classical Music for 9 hours a week, with an 'A' given for perfect attendance. Of course, he starts making the Dean's list every semester.

What is your response as his parent?

Mine, and I think MAT's, Express' and Fanatico's, would be to cut off his funding until he got his sorry butt back into a more challenging curriculum with a better future.

Yours seems to be to heap praise on him for making the Dean's list.

That was a good story. Would have been better if you could have worked smoking weed into it. I think the “major” marlin is in now is easy enough and he’s still not on the dean’s list. So no I’m not praising him. If a new coach is in our near future great. I won’t have to jump on the bandwagon because I never got off of it.

Geaux Cajuns 24/7 365 across the board!!! And all the enlightening y’all can push on me won’t change that, sorry guys. If I ever get tired of supporting this athletic program because it’s a frustrating lifestyle. I’ll just start fishing and playing more golf. As of now I’m all in on Cajuns and only Cajuns.

If one of my daughters puts me through your story, I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.

[ZoomZoom]

Allow me to put an allegorical story in here that I think states the position held by me and several others with reference to the UL basketball program.

Think of UL Basketball as your child. He is a good kid; he never gives any trouble, makes good grades in high school, and tells you he wants to be a mechanical engineer. You love your kid, and you want the best for him, so you take the plunge and send him to Colorado School of Mines. You hock your house to pay his expenses, and you tell him that you and his mom are making great sacrifices for his future, and that you expect him to work hard and make the dean's list nearly every semester, and to become a great engineer.

Well, he gets to CSM and finds out that it is hard to make great grades in mechanical engineering. After a couple of years, having made the Dean's list only one semester, he changes his major to music appreciation, a major which only requires him to sit in class and listen to Classical Music for 9 hours a week, with an 'A' given for perfect attendance. Of course, he starts making the Dean's list every semester.

What is your response as his parent?

Mine, and I think MAT's, Express' and Fanatico's, would be to cut off his funding until he got his sorry butt back into a more challenging curriculum with a better future.

Yours seems to be to heap praise on him for making the Dean's list.

I fully understand but one flaw, you would not put your child in the or else I never want to see you again position.

[VObserver]

I fully understand but one flaw, you would not put your child in the or I never want to see you again position.

No, but I would [and have] put my child in the "I will not financially support your foolishness" position. In the allegory, the child is not the coach, but the program. The coach is that ne'er do well that convinced my good child that he should just skate by on the minimum possible effort.

[ManAboutTown]

That was a good story. Would have been better if you could have worked smoking weed into it. I think the “major” marlin is in now is easy enough and he’s still not on the dean’s list. So no I’m not praising him. If a new coach is in our near future great. I won’t have to jump on the bandwagon because I never got off of it.

Geaux Cajuns 24/7 365 across the board!!! And all the enlightening y’all can push on me won’t change that, sorry guys. If I ever get tired of supporting this athletic program because it’s a frustrating lifestyle. I’ll just start fishing and playing more golf. As of now I’m all in on Cajuns and only Cajuns.

If one of my daughters puts me through your story, I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.

So in other words, you can't answer the question.

[Ragin4U]

**You’re. Anyway...

I don’t complain at basketball games.
When you’re irrelevant, complaining feels even more futile than usual.

As long as we are correcting grammar, "allude" is not the same as "elude".

I guess I will leave the heavy lifting of regime change up to the changemakers around here. I will continue to support my university and its athletic programs.

[ZoomZoom]

No, but I would [and have] put my child in the "I will not financially support your foolishness" position.

Did that with both my kids. Told them I would give them X amount for college, regardless, except McNeese. Told them high school was over, and my money was not going to McNeese.