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

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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.