LSU Women's Basketball http://lsuwbkb.posterous.com The Lady Tiger Way - Official Blog posterous.com Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:43:00 -0700 An amazing evening, an incredible facility, a lot of people to thank! http://lsuwbkb.posterous.com/an-amazing-evening-an-incredible-facility-a-l http://lsuwbkb.posterous.com/an-amazing-evening-an-incredible-facility-a-l

BOB STARKEY: Yesterday was a very special day for me personally as we officially opened the doors to our new practice facility.  With over 20 years of coaching at LSU, I have split that time between the men’s program and the women’s program.  Ushering a new era in yesterday represented a major step forward for both programs that mean so much to me and that have played such a pivotal role in my development as a coach and as a person.

The most significant thing to me was that those who have already worn the LSU jersey know that they are the major reason that the facility was built.  Certainly it will be of great benefit to future basketball players and coaches at LSU but the importance and relevance of LSU Basketball comes from our past – the legacy left by so many.

The first two that come to mind are Dale Brown and Sue Gunter.  I have been extremely blessed to have worked for both and know the time, sweat and tears that were needed to take their respective programs from obscurity to elite status.  I made sure Coach Brown was one of the first people I thanked at the ceremony yesterday.  At the end of the evening Coach Brown, myself and Rudy Macklin walked back into Sue Gunter Basketball Complex and stood in front of Coach Gunter’s statue and shared some great stories about her.  Spending time with Coach Brown and finding time to talk about Coach Gunter made the evening extremely special for me.

There were some alumni there from both teams.  For the women, Temeka Johnson, April Brown, Miriam Farr Segar and Flo Williams were in attendance.  From the men’s side, I saw Rudy, Ricky Blanton, Collis Temple and Randy Livingston (whom I coached).  I wish every former player could’ve been there yesterday.  It is so important to me that they know this building is a part of what they accomplished.  Our staff is going to work hard to make sure that our alumni know that we appreciated them and the price they paid to make yesterday happen.

I also thought about Skip Bertman, our past athletic director who pushed so hard to get us the practice facility and I fully recognize that it wasn’t easy in these difficult times.  But the coach in him knew the importance to us from the recruiting standpoint as well as for maximum teaching potential.  Judy Southard crossed my mind as well – our former SWA who was a part of Skip’s staff and knew that to be an elite program you must have elite facilities.

I am especially thankful that Eddie Nunez was on our senior staff and headed up this project.  As a collegiate player and coach he had a great awareness for every single aspect involved in the process.  He diligently went through every task involved with great attention to detail to make it truly one of the best practice facilities in the nation. And a big thanks as well to Joe Alleva who came in as our AD in the middle of the project and with his support helped us complete it in a first class fashion.

Finally, I thought about so many of our fans, especially the Fast Break Club, that have worked hard in so many ways to help us upgrade our facilities and I know they will be very proud of this one.  We are working on plans to have our Tip-Off Party in the near future so that they will get a chance to take in this amazing facility.

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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:10:00 -0800 Breaking in Our New Practice Facility http://lsuwbkb.posterous.com/breaking-in-our-new-practice-facility http://lsuwbkb.posterous.com/breaking-in-our-new-practice-facility

VAN CHANCELLOR (11-28-09):

We had a normal early morning practice sessions today. Generally we like to go early on Saturday, like our 10 AM start today, so the team can get out and enjoy the football game. Today's practice was a normal practice with a little video to start, our pre-practice period to work on fundamentals and then some more part and whole-method work to prepared for our next game. But one thing was extremely different...we worked out for the first time in our new practice facility! We are so appreciative of the LSU administration, specifically Skip Bertman for getting it started and Eddie Nunez for seeing it through. It's going to mean so much to our program both in terms of our players have a great resource to improve as well as it being important to recruiting.

 

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Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:18:00 -0700 NEW PRACTICE FACILITY TOUR FOR THE STAFF http://lsuwbkb.posterous.com/new-practice-facility-tour-for-the-staff http://lsuwbkb.posterous.com/new-practice-facility-tour-for-the-staff

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BOB STARKEY (9-5-09):
What a great day today! Associate AD Eddie Nunez gave us a tour and update of our new practice facility. It was absolutely amazing. We are blessed to have someone like Eddie in charge of this project. He played for Billy Donovan at Florida and understands what players and coaches need in a practice facility. Eddie toured some of the top facilities in the country and made sure we had the best of the best. We are slated to be in the facility by mid-October with it being full functional and complete by early December. I'll check back in later and give you some great details about all that going into it -- but it was definitely exciting to see the progress today!

 

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