Stands missing on O'Bryant was huge

Well I had the opportunity to work at the Johnny Jones' LSU basketball camp this past summer and every single coach was there and I was able to develop some good relationships with those guys. Coach Leanord and and Johnny Jones are class acts. Being a life long State fan I brought up Coach K. They all get choked up talking about the man and hated that he had to leave but it just made since with his sick sister and family. Not to mention that he got a pay raise and he is a Memphis native. Those are first hand facts. Not some made up story to promote an agenda. It's just silly and juvenile to try and tear someone down to sound like an insider. I don't claim to be an insider or a hype man for Kirb buy you are plain wrong on Coach Kirby and it would be the mature thing for you to admit it but no one here is holding there breath. Hail State

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Originally Posted by Acid mouth

You should try to use your post count as a pickup line a bar. Think about how cool you would sound!

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Look man I'm glad to have you on this board. I'm just saying bitching about the minimal Stansbury posts on this board is like a soldier bitching about someone farting during WW2. Stansbury bashing has been going on for 10 ****ing years before C34 up and built this wonderful board. The last 10 years was the entire WW2 of Stansbury bashing while you're bitching about the fart at the beach of Omaha.

So you're telling me Memphis, a school that has 1/2 the athletic budget of LSU, is paying asst basketball coaches more than LSU? I'll make sure I check that out. It's good that those things can be fact checked these days because they are published.

Ok good luck with your Googling. Funny how you like to change the argument to who has a higher athletic budget between LSU and Memphis and are ignoring the fact that you made up a story about Coach Kirby being pushed out of LSU because he didn't land Pollard. Any intelligent person can see right through you bud

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Look man I'm glad to have you on this board. I'm just saying bitching about the minimal Stansbury posts on this board is like a soldier bitching about someone farting during WW2. Stansbury bashing has been going on for 10 ****ing years before C34 up and built this wonderful board. The last 10 years was the entire WW2 of Stansbury bashing while you're bitching about the fart at the beach of Omaha.

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I can summarize State coaches for the last 30 years in a few words:

1. Bob Boyd- top asst Richard Williams...both hated recruiting but pretty good coaches- lots of losses
2. Richard Williams- top asst John Brady- recruited enough talent to win an SEC title
3. Richard Williams- with assts Rick Stansbury and Robert Kirby- good coach with 2 recruiters as assts- recruited a Final Four team
4. Rick Stansbury- Robert Kirby, Phil Cunningham- good recruiters- average at best coaching- solid years from 2000-2005
5. Rick Stansbury- Phil Cunningham and no Kirby= program falling apart
6. Rick Ray- Wes Flanigan- coached very well...can they recruit? Jury still out

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Ok good luck with your Googling. Funny how you like to change the argument to who has a higher athletic budget between LSU and Memphis and are ignoring the fact that you made up a story about Coach Kirby being pushed out of LSU because he didn't land Pollard. Any intelligent person can see right through you bud

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Nooooo, you said he left for a payday at Memphis- it's in your post....I'm going to show that this is in all likelihood a falsehood.

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Originally Posted by Acid mouth

You should try to use your post count as a pickup line a bar. Think about how cool you would sound!

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ouch

He did get a raise but I'd say that probably would be behind his ailing sister and being there for his 12 brothers and sisters on reasons he took the job. Oh and while your at it check and compare the salaries for Memphis basketball coaches and LSU basketball coaches and tell me what you find. Memphis is a basketball school and would spare no expense to get a guy they want.

Surely it could have nothing to do with the fact that he left to return to his hometown to his family to become an assistant at a more prestigious basketball school. No, not landing a player from Cleveland seems far more likely.

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Memphis is a basketball school and would spare no expense to get a guy they want.

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Then why do they keep Pastner? They hate that guy.

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So you're telling me Memphis, a school that has 1/2 the athletic budget of LSU, is paying asst basketball coaches more than LSU? I'll make sure I check that out. It's good that those things can be fact checked these days because they are published.

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Memphis, a school that has 1/2 the athletic budget of LSU, is paying Pastner over double what Jones is getting paid at LSU.

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Memphis, a school that has 1/2 the athletic budget of LSU, is paying Pastner over double what Jones is getting paid at LSU.

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Pastner and Trent Johnson made about the same salary in 2012..Jones hasnt earned the payday yet

Jones $1.1mm, Pastner $1.7mm with incentives to get upto $2.1mm and it runs through 2018-19. Basically just under double but Jones is still in his initial contract. Rick Ray makes $100,000 less per year than Jones.

Trent Johnson made 1.6 or so in 2012

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Originally Posted by TopDog58

Stains sucked. Get over it. But those West banners sure are purty!!!!

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Give it a damn rest.

You are going to be reminiscing about those banners in a couple of years.

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I have no doubts that this is 100% correct. You have been in the trenches. I'm just pointing out that we were not much of a factor in a recruiting battle over one of the best frontcourt basketball recruits in Mississippi of the last 10-15 years

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Yes from what I remember we were never really in it for OBryant. He was going to Ole miss for a little while then LSU closed the deal when Trent Johnson started to feel some heat about losing his job . LSU brought in some talent Johnson's last year

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Pastner and Trent Johnson made about the same salary in 2012..Jones hasnt earned the payday yet

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Memphis will pay for bball coaches.
$500,000k means something to me. Maybe not if I was pulling 1.2M, but I think I'd still notice.
I think I saw in the Commercial Appeal over Christmas Pastner is making more than $2M.

http://www.memphisflyer.com/TigerBlu...ract-extension
MARCH 27, 2013
Pastner just completed the second year of a five year contract that was paying him $1.7 million annually through the 2015-16 season.)

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-...150124412.html
April 9, 2012 11:01 AM
$1.2 million base salary Johnson made at LSU

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I just don't get the Stans bashing anymore. He's 2 years removed. I'm beginning to think that he slept with some of your wives and maybe even fathered a child or 2. Did yall attended any games while he was the coach? The atmosphere in the Hump is pathetic compared to when he was the coach. As a state fan, I'm 100% behind Ray but give the bashing a break. He didn't have a shot at OBryant, Adams followed Kirby to Georgetown, and we temporarily got Hood. I can't recall more talent coming out of our state than that year but at least Stans landed Hood. It remains to be seen if Ray can even get in the door with recruiting these type of players, but you don't see me (Stans fan) bashing him. Give it a break.

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The atmosphere in the early 00s was great, but the last 6 or so years of Stans' tenure, the atmosphere wasn't all that different from now.

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These threads totally and completely suck. Can both sides please let it go and just get behind the team and coach we have right now without starting these pissing matches?

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Smoot, I'm going to try and do what you say. I'm jumping on with You

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Originally Posted by YazooDawg23

Ok good luck with your Googling. Funny how you like to change the argument to who has a higher athletic budget between LSU and Memphis and are ignoring the fact that you made up a story about Coach Kirby being pushed out of LSU because he didn't land Pollard. Any intelligent person can see right through you bud

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Ha, where have you been? Great post. 34 is probably the worst basketball poster on this board. He will spin shit and change his argument in a heartbeat. His dislike of Stansbury ruins his creditably. Now He has to bash Kirby, who was a great asst Coach.