Dean Marlin is the football Cousin Eddie to your Clark Griswold basketball coach.
Our very own Clark (Stans) had MSU winning the west and even won our last SEC tournament in the spring that Cousin Eddie showed up. So basically, Stans last big accomplishment was just like Clark getting the lights, floodlights, and Santa lit up on the house... even though the little lights didn’t twinkle (postseason). And what would a Christmas be without Art (Coach 34) pointing out all of Clark’s flaws?
So Cousin Eddie shows up and the whole thing goes down the ******* (it’s full btw). There is a big, hungry, bumbling Renardo (Snots) that keeps turning over the trash and even chases a squirrel at a very bad time (fight in the stands).
And there must have been a microwave revved up because Cousin Eddie pissed his pants (shorts) and forgot who he was for a half hour or so. (Hired Sirmon, lost to South Al, lost to KY, near disaster at UMass)
Now there is a change of scenery. Cousin Eddie has showed up in the warm climate of Las Vegas (Gainesville) and Clark is beginning to lose at the table games. Meanwhile you have Wayne Newton lurking (Foley) that Clark has to worry about.
So he not only resembles Cousin Eddie... he strives to be him.