If Mcmahon ends up not working out...

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He is a proven program builder

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Where has this been proven? Just curious.

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Now, I am one of the big and have been one of the biggest McMen since the beginning of his tenure. He is a proven program builder,

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No he's not. Murray State was a well established program when they hired him.

First call at the end of this season should be to Will Wade

I hope McMahon can work some magic this year. The SEC is a gauntlet, anything greater than .500 in SEC will be a success. The sad reality is, if he doesn't finish greater than .500 the fan base will want him gone.

He didn't "build" the Murray St. program. It had been a winning program for nearly 30 years when he got the job. Mick Cronin, Billy Kennedy, and Steve Prohm all had success there before him that led them to get major conf. jobs.

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Should Scott Woodward give Coach Wright a call? At least make him say no. Thats the worst thing that could happen.

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Call? Sure. But Wright has shown no interest in coaching again in the NIL/transfer era. In fact, he said multiple times that he doesn't miss coaching.

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They made the round of 32 twice in his seven year tenure as HC. did it 6 times in their history prior to that. Also, made the tourney an additional time. But yes, the big bad Murray State Racers.

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To be completely fair, he also coached Murray St. to one of their two losing seasons in the past 40 years

Number one I hope in two years that our athletic director will be gone. Number two, who is coach Wright

And whom may I dare ask is responsible for insuring that we have the talent to compete throughout this gauntlet??????

I know the motherflucker before McMahon had ZERO PROBLEM getting studs on the roster by ANY MEANS NECESSARY , just like every other successful coach. Oh, and his teams suffered their fair share of injuries just like everyone else does. You could make a strong argument that the loss of Pinson tanked whichever season that was a few years ago. As Bill Parcells would say, "nobody cares about your injuries."

The bottom line is that Woodward didn't back Wade up until the end. I believe he was more interested in making his homeboy (Emmert) look less shitty in how he ran the NCAA. That, and it's the easy road which most of us would take. Most won't rock the boat just to keep those massive paychecks coming, and to still be invited to all the cocktails parties. The ADs that are all about winning would take the tougher road.

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And whom may I dare ask is responsible for insuring that we have the talent to compete throughout this gauntlet??????

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You aint wrong. But after the Wade debacle we lost any momentum we had. Plus if you are being recruited by almost any basketball school and LSU why come here? Not saying MM is the answer long term but he wouldve had an easier time taking a Missouri or Texas Tech type position than trying to resurrect this bastion Woodward created instead of telling the NCAA to pound sand like zona, duke, kansas all did

I am POSITIVE that Wade or any coach that is a top recruiter would have done a better job than McMahon getting top flight talent here in these last 3 years.

LSU is a top 5 college brand if not the top brand. It isn't a hard sell if you have the money to pay the players, and we always have had that. We're top 10 all time in signing McDonald's and Parade AAs.

I can't remember the recruit, but him and his dad described Wade as the Elon Musk of college coaches a few years back. I am positive Wade would have been more likely to, and probably would have signed Chris
Cenac.

I'm rooting like hell for McMahon, even though some neanderthals on the board think that if you don't praise the current coach you aren't a true fan. I just don't see it with Matt. We had it with Dale, and Wade. Now we're just wishing in one hand and crapping in the other because our administration couldn't back a winner who was in the process of reviving the program.

Over the last 10-15 years, the NCAA is about as scary of a law enforcement entity as Barney Fife was in Mayberry. And we just bent over to the pressure from the national media, instead of holding the line.