re: McMahon and LSU Basketball gearing up for a busy September

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MCMahon gonna need at least 3 full cycles to get LSU BB where it needs to be.

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3 cycles? Damn... you guys really did set the bar low for him. NIL/transfer portal exists. Guy is a bum

Yeah! Some fans enjoy watching LSU win and compete. Some like to point fingers and bitch, as soon as there is a bump in the road.
Basketball fans, over my lifetime, have had very little to cheer about. We have had several individual stars, that kept us entertained but there was always a weakness that kept us from staying relevant.
As soon as there was bump, fire the coach. He's Bum.

Lester I keep going back and forth whether you are stupid or just trolling constantly. I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering that on the board.

We clearly had in Wade a coach that would have us in the hunt yearly, and instead of standing up to the NCAA which has been shown to be effective many times in recent years by other schools, we bend over and take it by firing Wade. I've posted before that I think woody was throwing his homeboy Emmert a life raft as he was drowning in his incompetence running the NCAA by firing Wade.

Do you honestly think Wade won't be back in a power 5 job in short order? Once he cools off from the heat attached to his name? The bottom line is we should have kept his arse, and worked out a "slap on the wrist" punishment with the NCAA, like you know the name brand schools WITH BALLS DO.

You say me and others are nutty over this man. I'm nutty over LSU basketball winning, and that's what we were doing, and would have continued to do with Wade. You laugh at an LSU fan wanting to keep him. So you are happy with McMahon instead of Wade?????

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Rakease Passmore (6’5' SF

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Great last name for a basketball player

What in the hell are you losing your mind about? I said there were some guys the staff WERE NOT upset to see go. Nowhere did I criticize McMahon, or say he should have kept anyone.

Perhaps calm down and try reading first before reflexively freaking out in response to criticism that doesn’t exist.

Why does every discussion of players/recruits have to devolve into a rant about Wade? I swear some posters here need to go ahead and complete their transition to a woman because they can’t seem to let things stay in the past.

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He's another character hire.

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Yes

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3 full cycles

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Absolutely not!

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If we put together a good HS recruiting class, look well coached, and go .500 in the SEC I'll feel we're on our way to be a very good program.

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Basketball now is such a year-to-year game with so much roster turnover that it is difficult to think the present suggests success for the future.

McMahon's first HS class was really pretty good. That was the most encouraging thing going into last year considering he put that class together kind of on the fly amidst uncertainty. Unfortunately, 1/2 of that class is gone now (though the two "headliners" are still here). That means it's just hard to primarily build through HS recruiting.

LSU has 6 guys listed as seniors on this roster (Wright, Wilkinson, Dean, Baker, Hannibal, Fountain). I don't know who has any "covid" eligibility left (if any), but that amount of seniors seems to suggest next year's roster will be another large overhaul. IMO, he probably has/wants to sign around 3 HS players.

That doesn't sound like a lot, but McMahon spoke several times this offseason about wanting to get "older" compared to last season. You can't do that if over half of your roster is 1st and 2nd year guys. To me, that means he still wants to recruit transfers heavily and rely on those guys while the young players develop and hopefully stick around.

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Basketball now is such a year-to-year game with so much roster turnover that it is difficult to think the present suggests success for the future.

McMahon's first HS class was really pretty good. That was the most encouraging thing going into last year considering he put that class together kind of on the fly amidst uncertainty. Unfortunately, 1/2 of that class is gone now (though the two "headliners" are still here). That means it's just hard to primarily build through HS recruiting.

LSU has 6 guys listed as seniors on this roster (Wright, Wilkinson, Dean, Baker, Hannibal, Fountain). I don't know who has any "covid" eligibility left (if any), but that amount of seniors seems to suggest next year's roster will be another large overhaul. IMO, he probably has/wants to sign around 3 HS players.

That doesn't sound like a lot, but McMahon spoke several times this offseason about wanting to get "older" compared to last season.

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You need a couple of talented "program" guys in each class that stick around and provide program stability. I also feel if he is able to recruit well from the HS ranks, that gives me confidence in his ability in general to not only fix but maintain the program.

So to reiterate, if he signs a good high school class, the team looks well coached, and we go ~.500 in the SEC, I'll have a lot of confidence we are on the track to being a consistently strong program. That doesn't mean I don't recognize the importance of the transfer portal.

Last year we really didn't seem well-coached later in the year and the team looked downright disinterested in winning most of the time.


So 13 roster spots:

Any given season, something like 8 HS recruits (3 FR, 2 SO, 2 JR, 1 SR), 5 high impact transfers.

This recruiting class seems like it will be very important for the McMahon era.