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re: McMahon and LSU Basketball gearing up for a busy September
Posted on 8/25/23 at 8:29 am to tigahlovah
Posted on 8/25/23 at 8:29 am to tigahlovah
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he was a lazy, incompetent hire
People say this a lot, but can you explain how he was a lazy hire? He may be the wrong hire, not a good major program coach, not a good recruiter, etc. But at the time he was hired, he was widely considered the best mid-major coach available. Just don't see how it was a lazy hire, especially considering every other SEC program that had an opening went for him as well
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There are plenty of examples in today's college landscape, especially in men's basketball, that show a team can be turned around IMMEDIATELY if the coach has the skill set to do it.
And for every example of someone that "turned it around immediately" there are 2 examples of someone it took longer for. Look at Woodwards last basketball hire in Buzz Williams. Took over a program that was in very poor shape. First two years, Buzz went 16-14 then 8-10. They are now picked to finish top 3 in the SEC this year, and thats without Buzz recruiting very well.
This post was edited on 8/25/23 at 8:39 am
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Posted on 8/25/23 at 3:44 pm to Aforem7
You're right. It isn't fair to say McMahon was a lazy hire. He was actually successful, and it was rumored a few other SEC schools tried to hire him. As down as I am about him being the coach, I SWEAR I'm pulling for him, because I want LSU to win. We should be the second best program in the SEC in men's basketball and we need to get back to that and stay there.
I guess the problem I have is that we should have kept Wade, so I look at McMahon in a harsh light. I stand by my assertion that Wade would have been way more successful last year than McMahon was. Hell, he inherited as bad or worse of a program from JJ, and we saw how competitive we were in his first year.
Your second point doesn't move me as much. You say that for every good example you can show me two bad ones. Well, it's Woodward's job to hire one of the coaches in the top 33% of the hiring pool, or better yet, grow a pair of nuts and keep the coach we currently had who by all accounts was gonna stay here for years, and would have had us in the tournament yearly. Odds are, we would have had some deep runs mixed in, and LSU basketball would be a hell of all lot more fun than what we're staring at now.
I guess the problem I have is that we should have kept Wade, so I look at McMahon in a harsh light. I stand by my assertion that Wade would have been way more successful last year than McMahon was. Hell, he inherited as bad or worse of a program from JJ, and we saw how competitive we were in his first year.
Your second point doesn't move me as much. You say that for every good example you can show me two bad ones. Well, it's Woodward's job to hire one of the coaches in the top 33% of the hiring pool, or better yet, grow a pair of nuts and keep the coach we currently had who by all accounts was gonna stay here for years, and would have had us in the tournament yearly. Odds are, we would have had some deep runs mixed in, and LSU basketball would be a hell of all lot more fun than what we're staring at now.
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