I started this board here 20+ years ago until the OG Troll started the other board.
Yup you heard that right... the other LB board owner dude came to this board and spread a bunch of shit about this board to lure people to his board because of my so called "policies" about banning people that had horrible opinions. Someone on that board calling someone else a troll is a bit rich.
I've been a LB fan since the early 80's when I was at the school and Sparky and I were in the same fraternity (he's a bit older.. had to get that in!). So just a few years before Harrington (and Seth btw) but not a lot. The Harrington/SG years were definitely the "golden era" of LB CBB when the BW was a multi-bid conference and had UNLV but I digress...
I met CDM a few times 15-20 years ago when he first started since we both lived in Rossmoor. Of course CDM had a HUGE house and his CC memberships at Old Ranch and Virginia. He appeared to be a relatively decent dude for a D1 CBB coach and had some marginal success. A great title for a book on CDM's coaching career would be the old saying "Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while". If I never again hear about his weak connection to any Gonzaga success I'll be just fine.
I don't hate the guy and as a matter of fact he "gamed" the LB system with the systems knowledge and permission to increase his own pay. So good for him I guess. He is/was a marginal coach that would have/should have been let go a decade ago. What was/is he famous for? let me see...
1. Inability to develop usable big men despite literally EVERY other team in the conference able to do so.
2. The use of a super short bench/over reliance on a few players. Read his box scores and he only ever played 7 any real minutes. crazy in the modern game
3. No real "system"... just a bunch of screen and rolls or a bunch of dribbling around and then shooting the rock from 28'.
4. Crazy non-conf schedules criss crossing timezones for body bag games. My all time wacky favorite was the Hawaii on Thursday followed by the Virginia on Saturday NOON ET game. I'm sure the kids were refreshed after traveling for something like 30 hours. Talk about a Vegas LOCK to not cover! Go Beach!
The REAL people that are at fault for a lack of MBB success are of course the leaders of the University that LET him stay for soooo long but what do you expect when the institution itself is more committed to just existing rather than trying to win.
My support for the program died a while ago... once I realized that CDM was a lifer.
Will anything change? who knows? The Pyramid is literally collapsing, NIL and the transfer portal have decimated the college sports landscape and left LBSU in the dust. What will be the direction of the University leadership? What CAN they do? The school has no real money to compete for winning coach so they are forced to hire / take a flyer on a HS, D2, Juco or low level D1 assistant. The lack of NIL $$ means that they will only be able to recruit 2* kids and MAYBE a ton of 4th and 5th year transfers.
This is a controversial take but I've thought for a while now that they should drop down to the D2 level, since winning isn't a priority but that's just me.
Should be an interesting hire!
I was on this board for a long time. Backer introduced me to it at a Long Beach State basketball game. I like most used a fake name so I picked my brother Danny's name . When I joined the other board I decided to stop using a fake name. My name is David Marsh and have attended games consistantly since Joe Harrington was coach.
I am unfairly being called a troll. Do you call anyone who supports Dan Monson a troll? Well soon he will no longer be coach here if Bobby Smitheran does the right thing. Just voicing my pain.
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