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Tornado man said:
Southern Miss averaged 3,600 fans per game last season. Apparently they are unaware that they have a "big time, big name" coach.
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In terms of actual butts in the seats it was more like an average of 1,500. LE is a disaster for Southern Miss. He came into this school like he was some great, bigtime basketball coach and would take us to the promised land.
In reality he has been a major flop and the only thing that has grown since he got here is his ego. If he was 1/10th the coach he thinks he is, USM would be doing great.
Don't misunderstand me, Southern Miss basketball was a joke when he showed up. USM fans understood he would need time. Well, he has had time. He is a failure.
Personally, I can't stand the guy. He is so full of himself it is sickening.
Southern Miss just fired a football coach with 14 straight winning seasons. I know expectations for basketball aren't anywhere close to what they are for football at USM, but Mr. Wonderful better at least get this USM team to the NIT this year or his *** is out of here.
I will take a young, talented, up and coming assistant that wants to prove himself, instead of a narcissistic, washed up has been as our basketball coach.
 
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capitalcityguy said:
One other point that I'm sure many will not agree with but I truly believe we had a chance to benefit from in the long term is this. After this incident, LE had gained national name recognition. Yes, it was not from a positive situation, but there's a reason there's an old cliché that says, "there's no such thing as bad PR". When this story broke, more people nationally knew the name Larry Eustachy then ever knew the name Johnny Orr. Once he turned his life around, he adds a great human interest story to his name recognition.
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There is my problem. According to the Eagle poster, he has not turned his life around. I don't think anything has changed for LE. He is still number 1 and he treats everybody else like number 2s. I do not miss him one bit.
 
Once one of our own jumped on here, I had to post a comment.

Our fan base is split over Eustachy. Some people despise Eustachy (as you have already seen). They think Eustachy is the worst coach in the world, and that Southern Miss needs to get rid of him ASAP.

Some people love Eustachy, and think that he is building our program back up from the ground floor.

I happen to be a Eustachy supporter. The guy has a great since of humor and has a reputation of being a tough coach that makes his players better (if they are tough enough to stick with him).

Football is king at Southern Miss, baseball has a pretty big following, and basketball runs a distant third. Very rarely do you hear anyone talk about USM basketball.

This is the harsh reality: Our very poor basketball facilities just got a face lift with new locker rooms, offices, and training facilities, but the arena itself is in sad shape. It is outdated and needs work. The budget for basketball is a joke. We play in a conference where the only schools that seem to care about basketball are Memphis and UAB. Recruiting basketball players to Southern Miss is a much tougher job than a lot of people realize. Not to mention that the previous coach left the program in shambles. This is by no means an easy turn around job. Some of our fans just do not have realistic expectations for a turn around.

I did read where someone pointed out that we played 4 Division II teams last year. It is true, and the coaches and administration caught a lot of heat from the fan base for doing it. I think we will see a much improved schedule this year. The philosophy was that the fans would rather see a home game than listen on the radio, and we have a hard time getting name teams to come to our place. The only game that we can attract people to right now is when Memphis comes to town. We will probably have to play a few more road games, but so be it.

We have seen progress over the past couple of seasons. We went deeper into the conference tournament (before running into Memphis) then the year before. We were obviously getting better. The expectations for this year are to reach some sort of post season play.

To sum it up, Eustachy took over a joke of a basketball program and some of our fans are displeased with how fast he is rebuilding. These people need to come back to reality and look at the tools we gave the man to rebuild with. I say he deserves more time.
 
No harm meant by "cornfield county", just as I'm sure that your poster did not mean any harm by "the sticks". Let's be honest, neither Iowa or Mississippi are New York City :wink:

To answer the question, no I don't want to compare educational statistics for the two states. I do ask that you don't judge all of us by the movie "Mississippi burning". I promise not to think you are all hick corn farmers.

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travman23 said:
In hindsight the firing probably was the wakeup call he needed but at the time I was frustrated with ISU just tossing him to the curb and showing no compassion to help him get the help he needed. He didn't violate any NCAA rules or laws.

Not trying to start this whole debate up again because it has been beat to death but can you look at the mess we have dealt with today and say that had we put Larry on a suspension, say for 1 year to prove he had taken care of his alchohol problems then reinstated him that we'd be in the same situation we are in now with the revolving door of players? I know some will say that he had a revolving door too but the difference was he still won despite that while we haven't been able to do much other than a few moments under Morgan.

He would have coached Blalock and Stinson and I wonder how differently that might have turned out with a disciplined coach who would have taught them to play the right way and sat them down when they got out of control. LE had his moment with Tinsley at the start when he benched JT for stretches because of his out of control play and in the end that worked out pretty well. We had a pretty good group of players coming in for Morgan's 1st season and with Morgan still as the recruiting assistant who knows what kind of success we possibly could have had because we know that LE was one of the best at getting the most out of the hand he was dealt and was a great gameday coach. Maybe not quite the recruiter but again he has assistants that helped make up for that.
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Please, please move on and let go
 
eaglfan81 said:
No harm meant by "cornfield county", just as I'm sure that your poster did not mean any harm by "the sticks". Let's be honest, neither Iowa or Mississippi are New York City :wink:

To answer the question, no I don't want to compare educational statistics for the two states. I do ask that you don't judge all of us by the movie "Mississippi burning". I promise not to think you are all hick corn farmers.

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I have to admit, your state is damn fun to spell.

I'll give you that.
 
I didn't know if there was some kind of inside joke on that one. When you post on my home board (http://www.eaglepost.info/board), you never know what you are walking into.

I knew the Idaho potato connection. I spent the first half of my life in North Dakota, so I pretty familiar with the mid-west and Rocky mountain areas.
 
eaglfan81 said:
I didn't know if there was some kind of inside joke on that one. When you post on my home board (http://www.eaglepost.info/board), you never know what you are walking into.

I knew the Idaho potato connection. I spent the first half of my life in North Dakota, so I pretty familiar with the mid-west and Rocky mountain areas.
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Yeah, I was just seeing if you shared the most common (and annoying) misperception about Iowa. You were wise to abstain from answering.
 
eaglfan81 said:
I didn't know if there was some kind of inside joke on that one. When you post on my home board (http://www.eaglepost.info/board), you never know what you are walking into.

I knew the Idaho potato connection. I spent the first half of my life in North Dakota, so I pretty familiar with the mid-west and Rocky mountain areas.
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To most of the US, Iowa/Ohio/Idaho are apparently the same state so we got a lot of "Oh, the potato state right?"
 
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