Bustle, Lee, Rogers

[zephyr]

_ I love how my name always pops up in many topics... Im in Lil rock right now with the best talent from louisiana ( Girls )... No one from UL is even at this Tourney even recruiting these kids... WHere are the coaches at... I just left our first game and there were 40 different college coaches at the game... BUT NO ONE FROM UL... Some things amaze me... _

Dude, you jacked the ball up from everywhere. You were great when you were hitting but you shot us out of it at times...Sorry, just speaking the truth.

[ShowDog]

_ BUSTLE
Unless Bustle wins an outright SBC Championship or a bowl game he must go. He has taken this program as far as he can take us. As far as a replacement goes, we need to make a splash and find a "name" to hire or a big time OC/DC from a top 25 program. I'd prefer a DC over a OC though.

LEE
Lee has to go no matter what and we need to do the same with our search for a new HC. Find a guy who can recruit great athlets much like Jessie Evans had done. So what if he leaves after 4 or 5 years, it would mean we are winning and winning a lot.

ROGERS
Nothing he can do could secure his job for another year. Bring J Kelly Hall back! _

We should have gone after Bowden. Lot of people said he would only take a major Univ. job, but Northern AL is where he landed.
We don't have the right people running our ATH DEPT. That's been a fact for years.
We're the same way with marketing and recruiting. We're like a Jr. High program. I read in the Advocate about where LA kids sign and we're never even listed as a school that was considered. Last week LSU got a couple of commitments and UL Monroe was listed as considered and we weren't even on the radar screen. The whole attitude needs to change at UL.

[zephyr]

_ We should have gone after Bowden. Lot of people said he would only take a major Univ. job, but Northern AL is where he landed.
We don't have the right people running our ATH DEPT. That's been a fact for years.
We're the same way with marketing and recruiting. We're like a Jr. High program. I read in the Advocate about where LA kids sign and we're never even listed as a school that was considered. Last week LSU got a couple of commitments and UL Monroe was listed as considered and we weren't even on the radar screen. The whole attitude needs to change at UL. _

You make some points about the attitude in the dept. but I think your views may be based on singles instances rather than seeing the bigger picture. While I have questioned the attitude in this dept in the past, I now think we have people in place with the exception of Walker who are commited to turning this program around and they've begun to do that. However, I don't believe for one moment that the A.D. would not love to have a top notch assistant interested in being here. I don't think that is the problem. However, I think that people keep overlooking the budget we work within before casting judgement. If we didn't work in such a poor budget, you would likely have seen Lee and probably Rogers gone after last season. What many just don't seem to get is that with a lack of private funding (and I don't want to hear that we didn't have the RCAF because they're received donations for years) you can't buy out existing contracts to hire more established candidates who will in turn want to be paid more also. If you do not have the budget, this is all just a pipe dream.

You question who we took over Bowden but he hasn't exactly lit it up in the football world and if he was such a great candidate, why did he end up where he did? I'm not buying it.

In regards to those recruits, you can go to several different websites that cover recruiting and come up with different schools that are supposedly interested or being considered. Many times, those schools aren't even in the running.

[zephyr]

_ Name a game i shot us out of... Come on man, i can except the truth... Thats what shooters do, we jack it up... But shoot us out of game, dont remeber many of those... COuldnt of been to many since we won 20 games everyyear i was in the lineup... Post season play as well... _

Gee, let me turn back the clock and go exactly to the various games for argument sake but let's just say that shot selection was not your strength....I'll leave it at that.

[ManAboutTown]

_ Gee, let me turn back the clock and go exactly to the various games for argument sake but let's just say that shot selection was not your strength....I'll leave it at that. _

Agree with both of your previous two posts. Like someone said earlier, when Brad was on, we were unstoppable. But I don't recall a player frustrating me more by taking ill-advised shots in big situations than you buddy.

Anyway, the admin has been in disarray for years, and just when everyone "can't take it anymore", we're being asked to be a little bit more patient. And thats what we'll have to do because we're still a ways away. IMO, we're Walker stepping down, Savoy taking over, and one more athletic-savvy suit away from being on the right track. But I guess we'll see.

[Spydaman70507]

_ We should have gone after Bowden. Lot of people said he would only take a major Univ. job, but Northern AL is where he landed.
We don't have the right people running our ATH DEPT. That's been a fact for years.
We're the same way with marketing and recruiting. We're like a Jr. High program. I read in the Advocate about where LA kids sign and we're never even listed as a school that was considered. Last week LSU got a couple of commitments and UL Monroe was listed as considered and we weren't even on the radar screen. The whole attitude needs to change at UL. _

Well you are right people can't say that N.Bama have more money than us. To pull in a coach like Terry Bowden there are still good coaches out there.

[Turbine]

.. If you dont shoot, it wont ever go in... _

Big TRUE

[Cajunsmike]

_ Hey thats understandable.. If you dont shoot, it wont ever go in... _

As someone who has played pickup basketball for more years than Brad has been alive, I can assure you he has the same mentality that all shooters do. The creed of shooters has a lot of truth in it. It is simply you miss every shot you don't take.

[zephyr]

_ As someone who has played pickup basketball for more years than Brad has been alive, I can assure you he has the same mentality that all shooters do. The creed of shooters has a lot of truth in it. It is simply you miss every shot you don't take. _

Well Mike, the great shooter's also know how to free themselves up for shots and know when and how to pull the trigger. I saw a lot of standing around and forcing shots by not just Brad but many of our players still today. You can be a great shooter and also shoot for percentage...See J.J. Reddick and some of the shooters of recent years alone, knowing when to shoot is as important as being able to shoot.

[CajunProud]

_ Well Mike, the great shooter's also know how to free themselves up for shots and know when and how to pull the trigger. I saw a lot of standing around and forcing shots by not just Brad but many of our players still today. You can be a great shooter and also shoot for percentage...See J.J. Reddick and some of the shooters of recent years alone, knowing when to shoot is as important as being able to shoot. _

Agree 100%. And therein lies the problem. We have had coaches that don't know how to coach a motion offense, or players that either don't know, or are too lazy to run it, or both. Based on my observations over the last several years, I would say the problem is primarily the former.