re: McMahon is on the clock now

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McMahon rebuilt again this year because his previous team wasn't good enough. If he can regularly put SEC level teams together, including recruiting useful players out of high school, he should be able to avoid a total rebuild every season.

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Not counting Ole Miss because they are the only SEC team who made a coaching change last year, the average number of transfers out per SEC team after last season was 3.5. LSU is going to lose at least 4 players from this team (Baker, Hannibal, Dean, Wright) because they are out of eligibility. So even if LSU stays on the low end of the average number of transfers out (say 2), that still means McMahon is going to have to replace 6 players. If LSU has three or more guys transfer out that means he will be replacing over 50% of his roster. That's NOT meant to be a knock on McMahon. It's just the new reality of college basketball almost every coach faces. Starters and key players will leave just as easily as guys who didn't play at all...leaving a HC to have to rebuild a significantly new roster over and over. For lack of a better word, "rebuilding" yearly has kind of become the norm.