re: Doesn’t the portal with unlimited transfers make it easier to build a team quicker?

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Do the fricking retards around here not realize the NCAA waited forever to issue a ruling on LSU’s status? This will be his first recruiting class to not have that hanging over his head. See what they do next year and then go ahead and judge.

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And McMahon signed the 17th best HS class that season. He signed as many top 100 players as Texas, Auburn, Villanova, Baylor, Houston, Michigan St. That year. He signed MORE top 100 players than UConn, Creighton, Purdue, Gonzaga that season. In fact, unless LSU signs another player this year's class that first class will be ranked much higher. The excuse of the "looming sanctions" and "dark cloud" hindering recruiting over the last two years falls apart when you look at actual facts.

Total number of top 100 players signed in 2022 and 2023 (McMahon's first two recruiting classes)

UConn - 4
Auburn - 3
Gonzaga - 2
Purdue - 1
Arizona - 4
Texas - 3
Florida - 1
South Carolina - 1
Mississippi State - 1
Villanova - 2
LSU - 3
Marquette - 1
Houston - 3

When compared to SEC contemporaries and some of the best programs in the nation McMahon's signing classes compared, favorably. His classes were certainly better than Lamont Paris at South Carolina. LSU battled them last year for the title of worst team in the SEC last season. LSU pulled away at the end. In fact, South Carolina was the ONLY team LSU was picked to finish ahead of in the preseason polls. Apparently South Carolina didn't get the message as they sit at 20-3 and flying up the projected seed line in the NCAAT. LSU is celebrating "playing hard" for a 10:00 stretch in a 20 point blowout loss.

Quickly "Rebuilding" (or really just building) a winning roster has NEVER been easier than it is now. Sustaining it is a different story. Unfortunately, to date, McMahon has done neither. That's not what I, as an LSU fan, want to be the case. It just is what it is. And never before have I seen so many fans twist themselves in to pretzels trying to defend such futility.