Kentucky basketball #2 recruiting class falling apart.

Let's not set ourselves up for disappointment and safely assume they are going to Arkansas.

Nice one piggy

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That's what happens when you lose a hall of fame coach

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It's basically what happens when you lose any coach.

Looks like the White boy from Kentucky has signed but the kid from NJ who committed in December has not. So probably losing him too.

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It's basically what happens when you lose any coach.

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Exactly.

Many LSU fans think what happened to the LSU roster after Wade was fired was some sort of extreme anomaly brought on by an NCAA investigation that McMahon needs "years:" to overcome. The reality is if a school makes a coaching change expect the new HC to be left with a barren roster.

Like Calipari said in his opening press conference at Arkansas. "I met with the team today....there is no team."

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This does not always happen. In the past current players had to sit out a year upon transferring even if there was a coaching change. The only exception was an incoming freshman who signed with a coach who left the school. This is how Wade was able to get Tremont Waters when Georgetown released him after Patrick Ewing was fired. Wade's termination and McMahon's hiring coincided with the open portal / immediate eligibility changes ,

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I didn't mean pre freedom of transfer era. But you have fans still today that think what happened to LSU was some great outlier. While it may have been one of the first instances of complete roster turnover, it has become commonplace. In fact, Kanas St., Missouri, Iowa St., St. John's, Ole Miss, etc all experienced significant roster turnover in response to a coaching change.

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What so many of you continue to ignore is that McMahon inherited a program facing draconian sanctions.

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"draconian sanctions"

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It doesn't matter what was ultimately imposed at the time the threat was used against LSU when competing for recruits and transfers.

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And yet, facing those impending "draconian sanctions" he signed what was rated a top 20 HS class and a top 20 transfer class that offseason. That doesn't sound like players being scared off by the impending doom that was NEVER going to occur.

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Had there been no pending sanctions and Wade just left for another job it likely a core group of players would have remained and possibly some of the incoming recruits

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Highly doubtful given what has happened with essentially every other major conf. coaching change. Most players leave when their coach leaves...for whatever reason he leaves. It happened at K-State, it happened at a bad Iowa St. team. It happened at Arkansas with Calipari coming in. It's happening at Kentucky. It happened at Ole Miss. It happened at St. John's with Rick Pitino coming in. And on, and on, and on. The SAME thing would have happened at LSU.

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Regardless no one can argue McMahon has the program trending in a positive direction

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The performance in SEC play was an improvement. No one can argue with that. But in this day and age, with so much roster turnover, from year to year (for example, half...maybe over half... of LSU's roster this season will be new) it's hard to guarantee success in one season will carry over to the next, though we all hope it does.