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Message: [QUOTE="SECbbfan24, post: 3101936, member: 9360"] I was referring to athletic director, my bad. I was around during the pokey scandal and was extremely close inside that program, there was a lot of misconceptions on what truly happened and it was blown out of proportion by a disgruntled LSU assistant coach and the media, but thats a whole other story. Pokey Chatman was a great recruiter and had kids buy into what she was selling. LSU's program dramatically changed with her as an assistant and having a bigger role later during the Gunter years. After she took over, LSU never looked back. She brought in some insane talent over those years between Fowles, Augustus, Temeka Johnson, Hightower... Yes LSU did "choke" a couple times during their final four appearances but that is still helluva lot better than where we are at today. LSU had a dominant program and was competing on a national scale. LSU hired Van Chancellor after who rode the system Pokey had built for a couple years before it eventually fell off. Van actually recruited really well nationally with many top kids but did not know how to coach and mold a collegiate team. Much different from the WNBA... After missing the tournament his last year, he stepped aside and we went after Nikki who has been a failure in retrospect for what we hired her for. Nikki while not "horrifically bad" has been extremely disappointing for me. I don't doubt she knows the games X's and O's but her management of a college program is god awful. She has a horrible foundation with her recruiting and relies on transfers every single year (not even top transfers). She deals with constant suspensions and turnovers (Forthan, Youngblood, Baker, Amechia, Farley). Ballard, LSU's star player eventually got kicked off the team. Chloe Jackson ran like the wind immediately after last season ended. One of her assistant coaches, ex assistant coach Tony Perotti was arrested for harassing a woman at a bar in BR. She rank Nikki Demoss off after some major internal conflicts between those two. Its truly been chaotic, but she continues to make excuses for why she can't be successful. She is arrogant and thinks she never does wrong. I can see how that rubs off in a bad way with recruits. I'm just over it and wish we could move on and work to getting the program back to being competitive again, LSU invests a lot of money into its WBB program. [/QUOTE]

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