WBB coaching talk ...

[RedBug58]

I think this is a good move. With his ties to the Lafayette area, his involvement in recruiting this area, his daughter coaching high school basketball, and his basketball knowledge.............the program will be successful in the same mold as our softball and baseball programs.

[axg8750]

In any case let the recruiting begin, and the wins.

+1

[Roamingpoke]

THE DECISION HAS BEEN MADE!!!

There could not have been a better choice. Thanks to Coach Brodhead for bringing class, character, and a winning tradition to McNeese Women's Basketball. Wish him and the Lady Cajun program the very best in the future. It has been a great honor to work with you and support your efforts the last few years, sir!


Hometown
Lafayette, LA

Alma Mater
Louisiana Lafayette, 1980

Coaching Experience
McNeese State Associate Head Coach (2010)
McNeese State Assistant Coach (2007-2010)
Teurlings Catholic High, Lafayette, LA.-Head Coach
1997-2007 (297-78 overall record)

Duties
• Coaching point guards
• In charge of the Cowgirl defense
• Academic coordinator and strength training liason
• Scheduling
• Recruiting (Louisiana and Texas)
• Scouting and film editing
• Directs preseason and postseason workouts

Highlights
• One state title (2002)
• Nine district titles
• Six trips to the Sweet 16
• State runners-up (once)
• State semifinals (six times)
• Nine time district “Coach of the Year”
• Three time parish “Coach of the Year”
• Two time Acadiana “Coach of the Year”
• Teams ranked No. 1 in the state five times

[GetTheFacts1st]

From my Twitter account about 30 minutes ago:
@ULRaginCajuns has hired #McNeeseState associate head coach Garry Brodhead per a source. Presser at noon Monday. #SunBelt #RaginCajuns

If not true, this would be a sick April Fools joke. If true, it's a smart decision. He was ignored by former hiring "experts" because he did not have collegiate experience. He went out and got some. Now watch as he proves those ding-bats wrong.

[GetTheFacts1st]

FROM ROAMINGPOKE: "There could not have been a better choice. Thanks to Coach Brodhead for bringing class, character, and a winning tradition to McNeese Women's Basketball. Wish him and the Lady Cajun program the very best in the future. It has been a great honor to work with you and support your efforts the last few years, sir!"

WOW! A Poke I could like.....and THAT is EXTREMELY rare!!!! LOL!

No one knows someone as well as a peer. That says it all.

[GetTheFacts1st]

Looks like congratulations are in order for the Brodhead family. I really hope this works out great for the UL sports family.

Now I want every single person who moaned about the lack of support, and all we need is this coach to make thing right. You be sure to be at every game. I want to make it impossible for the women to stay in Earl K Long. If you live within 40 miles of Lafayette you need to buy your tickets, and make most games.

Nice to see u jump on board. J-Kelly loved EKL, so except for the parking situation, why move? And why not make tickets hard to find!

[CajunEXPRESS]

Nice to see u jump on board. J-Kelly loved EKL, so except for the parking situation, why move?

You move because your team outgrows the gym and brings in 2K to a major arena.

What would be nice is to tare down Blackham, and build a state of the art facility for WBB, Volleyball, seating about 4500.

My point bottom line is I honestly hope he can garner enough support and wins to simply outgrow EKL.

[GetTheFacts1st]

I think this is a good move. With his ties to the Lafayette area, his involvement in recruiting this area, his daughter coaching high school basketball, and his basketball knowledge.............the program will be successful in the same mold as our softball and baseball programs.

uhhh, let's make that our softball program, OK? Let's measure in wins and losses, THEN all the other stuff.

[GetTheFacts1st]

FROM: CajunEXPRESS;

"What would be nice is to tare down Blackham, and build a state of the art facility for WBB, Volleyball, seating about 4500."

ummmmm, not practical from a ROI perspective

[CajunEXPRESS]

ROI is not in my estimation of what would be nice. You know you could also do other things in such an arena lots of use for a building of that nature. We are going for 20K students and additional student activites could be done in a place like this.

Women basketball will probably never be a good sport in the huge Cajun Dome, but surely I want it to be more popular than what can fit into EKL. In addition there will come a day that the location of EKL will have to be converted to academcis.

Let us not get too emotional about EKL. It was ancient when I was a student in 1966 with a student body of around 10K. Now we are a decade into the 21st century and will probably be at 20k before 2016-2018.