FanHouse JohnBrady

This week, FanHouse is taking a look at the top teams heading into 2008 with a BlogPoll decided on by our college hoops bloggers. To help with the team capsules, we've brought in some of the top fan bloggers around the internets to give us insights on their teams.

Today, we have enlisted Poseur of the And The Valley Shook blog to break down the LSU Tigers.

Let me first speak for about three-quarters of the LSU fanbase first: thank God John Brady is finally gone. I don't think I have ever loathed a coach as much as I loathe Brady. Eleven years of doing just enough to not get fired, Brady finally got shown the door as he followed up a fluky Final Four appearance with two last place finishes in the SEC West. OK, that's cheating, LSU was in last when Brady got canned, but rallied down the stretch, going 5-5 with an interim coach. So excuse us if we're a little shell-shocked, LSU fans have learned an important lesson over the past decade: don't get your hopes up.

LSU has fired men's basketball head coach John Brady, multiple media outlets are reporting.

From Gary Parrish of Sportsline:

It's unclear whether Brady will finish the season. If he does not assistant Butch Pierre is expected to take over on an interim basis.

LSU is 8-13 overall, 1-6 in the SEC.

Some coaches that should surface as possible replacements are Southern California's Tim Floyd, Virginia Commonwealth's Anthony Grant and Ole Miss' Andy Kennedy.

Brady, who is losing his job less than two years after taking LSU to a Final Four, has had an up-and-down career since replacing Dale Brown at LSU in 1997. He had losing records in his first two seasons leading the Tigers, including a grand total of six wins in the SEC. But he went 28-6 in his third year and got to the Sweet 16. Overall, he managed just three winning SEC seasons in 11 years at the helm. That's the kind of record that a coach just can't survive.