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re: Bruce Pearl's first three years at Auburn
Posted on 1/19/23 at 8:19 am to Tigerfan14
Posted on 1/19/23 at 8:19 am to Tigerfan14
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Did he have the ability to add immediately eligible transfers?
No, but there were not a lot of highly talented players lined up to transfer to LSU with pending sanctions. It was a yeoman task to recruit the roster he has now.
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Posted on 1/19/23 at 8:56 am to tigersbb
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No, but there were not a lot of highly talented players lined up to transfer to LSU with pending sanctions. It was a yeoman task to recruit the roster he has now.
Players don't care as much about the sanctions as fans do. They look at what the staff/opportunity can do for them individually and don't put much thought into future, unknown, sanctions.
Tommy Lloyd took over Arizona after they fired Sean Miller. Not only were there wire tap conversations with Miller (though less egregious than those of Wade) but Arizona had an assistant coach plead guilty to crimes arising out of the "scandal". Yet, with the "cloud of sanctions" hanging over Lloyd at his new program he was still able to recruit, bring in transfers, AND convince talented players on the roster (such as Benn Mathurin) to return. With all of the "doom and gloom" facing the poor first year HC it would have been reasonable to think he would have a rough 1st year. Instead, Arizona went 33-4, won both the Pac 12 regular season and tournament championships en route to a No.1 seed in the NCAAT. For his part, Lloyd was the unanimous national coach of the year. Pretty good for a guy taking over a program facing "draconian sanctions" who had NEVER been a HC...anywhere.
Because they fired Wade, LSU is NOT going to get hit with major sanctions. So that excuse, while it shouldn't exist at all, is going to soon fall by the wayside.
Make no mistake, I really, really want McMahon to succeed here. But I'm not going to bend over backwards to find any excuse to absolve him from criticism for the current really poor performances. It is absolutely warranted.
Posted on 1/19/23 at 9:19 am to tigersbb
He brought 3 players with him from Murray State and said he could have brought more. Commitment to NIL makes the worry of POSSIBLE sanctions irrelevant. Kids want money, that’s #1.
If the team looked organized, fought hard and there was some resemblance of this phenomenal system CMM is supposed to run, you could look past the lack of recruiting. The minute distributions make no sense either. It’s really just a mess all over, which is why we are losing so many games and losing them bad.
If the team looked organized, fought hard and there was some resemblance of this phenomenal system CMM is supposed to run, you could look past the lack of recruiting. The minute distributions make no sense either. It’s really just a mess all over, which is why we are losing so many games and losing them bad.
Posted on 1/19/23 at 4:05 pm to tigersbb
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No, but there were not a lot of highly talented players lined up to transfer to LSU with pending sanctions. It was a yeoman task to recruit the roster he has now.
Except McMahon brought 3 players from a team that won 31 games and a tournament game last season including the best player in their league PLUS a top 20 class. To not be competitive is a disgrace.
Posted on 1/20/23 at 3:59 pm to tigersbb
If LSU is cleared of further sanctions, then MM may be able to recruit some good transfers for next year. Develop the recruits a little, and then we might be okay next year, even with the loss of KJ. We need a couple of shooters, a point guard, and a good post player to replace KJ for next year.
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