re: McMahon contract...Is one more year most likely scenario?

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Desire is all on the player.

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I disagree. A coach is a leader, and inspires his players to play for him and play HARD for 40 minutes. Being at LSU, wearing that jersey, playing for your head coach, it should be enough. But we consistently see a problem where our players just check out.

Do you think Coach Cal has these problems? Coach K? Bill Self? frick no. Because they are leaders.

Obviously we should hope that these players should want to play hard on their own, and McMahon does too (see Nicholls post game press conference), but the reality is these are 19-21 year old kids with NIL money. The internal desire to play has decreased a lot. The coach NEEDS to be a motivator.