re: Matt McMahon has to be the most frustrated coach among the SEC

No more excuses or moral victories for next season, McMahon needs to have a winning team that fans want to watch.
LSU bigwigs also need to help out MBB by officially announcing a new PMAC or a complete remodel, otherwise we’ll continue to be a bad or just an ok team at best.

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1st year was a throw away so let’s see where he ends up this year

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I don’t think he will be fired after this season, but the above is a bullshite mindset. Yes, he took the job under adverse circumstances. But by the time he reached November he had a roster EVERYONE who follows college basketball (except chicken-little LSU basketball “fans”) felt would at least be competitive. Not NCAA Tournament caliber. But at least competitive. It wasn’t. At all.

Many on here live in this myopic world where what happened to the LSU roster after Wade was fired was a complete anomaly. The reality is any time a coach is fired now, for whatever reason, the roster undergoes a major upheaval. Some more than others, but that’s now the norm in this transfer era. Fair or unfair, coaches have to adapt.

If McMahon would have had last season a season like he is having now most people would have been ok. Not thrilled, but at least understanding. He didn’t. He had a horrible season that ABSOLUTELY should be part of the evaluation. He’s having an average season thus far. That fact shouldn’t be amplified just because he set the bar for “success” or improvement so low last year.

At some point the excuses have to end. He’s won 6 SEC games in two years! Winning one of the next 3 games where LSU will be a significant underdog would be a GREAT start to turning the evaluation around

“They are a few plays away from sweeping TAM and beating GA on the road. “


This is exactly my point, you’re not going to win enough games like these to be successful. Sure you’ll win a couple here and there but you’re never going to be consistent regardless of talent because you don’t do the things I listed well. You don’t have to be talented to take care of the ball or have good possessions and with 5 guys over 6-9, most of them top 100 recruits, for them not to be rebounding is coaching. The lack of these things are either not coached or they’re allowed. Either way it’s a coaching issue.

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Wade was the same. A good coach but not great. What set him apart was his ability to recruit.

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And develop
And scout
And promote his program

Yep Next year keeps turning into Next Year, then Next Year