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How much can LSU pay for a MBB coach?
Posted on 1/12/25 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 1/12/25 at 10:53 pm
MM is around $3 mil (grossly overpaid) with idiotic buyout. Sampson at Houston is around $5 mil (expires in 2026). Calipari is $7 mil. Not sure LSU is ready to make that jump
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Posted on 1/12/25 at 10:53 pm to WDAIII
Posted on 1/12/25 at 11:47 pm to WDAIII
Why you care? You're not a LSU fan anyway.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 12:28 am to WDAIII
If Arky can afford to pay Cal $7M, and Ole Miss can afford to Beard $5M, there's no reason LSU can't play ball in that salary range and rally necessary support if they really wanted to make an effort to do so. The problem is going to be paying McMahon's multi million dollar buyout for termination, on top of a buyout to another school for hiring their coach.
I believe Beard's Ole Miss buyout is around $5M. I wish Woodward would just offer him $7M to get him here, pay off Ole Miss, and call it a day. Guy's a proven winner and would turn this program around quickly. But I have zero faith whatsoever that LSU cares enough about MBB to make that type of investment that would actually yield returns. You get what you pay for.
Or alternatively, Woodward could just go the more affordable route, and get on his knees and beg Wade to come back. I'd welcome that scenario as well.
I believe Beard's Ole Miss buyout is around $5M. I wish Woodward would just offer him $7M to get him here, pay off Ole Miss, and call it a day. Guy's a proven winner and would turn this program around quickly. But I have zero faith whatsoever that LSU cares enough about MBB to make that type of investment that would actually yield returns. You get what you pay for.
Or alternatively, Woodward could just go the more affordable route, and get on his knees and beg Wade to come back. I'd welcome that scenario as well.
This post was edited on 1/13/25 at 12:38 am
Posted on 1/13/25 at 12:49 am to Jack Crevalle
and Mark Pope is showing that you can completely rebuild a very competitive team the following season. Everyone on that roster is new. There's no reason LSU shouldn't put a more competitive product out on the court.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 2:29 am to Fast Times @ LSU
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Mark Pope is showing that you can completely rebuild a very competitive team the following season.
LSU and Kentucky are not equals. You guys keep thinking that we're talking about LSU football or baseball. LSU basketball does not have the same cache' as the other programs. It might as well be UL-Lafayette. You can't turn around LSU basketball in a year. It's not a top program, and it doesn't have nor does it spend top program money.
Downvote me, you know I'm right. We were on the uptick, and they blew it up, because LSU basketball was, is, and always will be at the bottom in terms of LSU hierarchy. Disposable.
This post was edited on 1/13/25 at 2:31 am
Posted on 1/13/25 at 2:45 am to LSUSkip
Rick Pitino
Posted on 1/13/25 at 2:50 am to LSUSkip
What you said is pretty much spot on. Idk why a lot of LSU fans can’t comprehend that. Or maybe they just don’t want to. All I can say is good luck convincing LSU to pay big money for a high caliber basketball coach that could actually turn the program around quick.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 4:33 am to WDAIII
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Calipari is $7 mil.
a prime example of a coach without the jimmies and joes.
It is less to do about a coaches salary, imo, than it is about the funds available to bring in an elite player or two.
If you start having to pay a buyout plus the going rate for coaches AND players......not sure LSU is there yet. Against popular opinion obviously...but keep the coach, and use more funds to bring in top players.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 4:59 am to WDAIII
Having to work along side, it must drive Kim Mulkey crazy.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 5:03 am to LSUSkip
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You can't turn around LSU basketball in a year.
This argument is so old and wrong. Last year Missouri replaced its entire team with a bunch of D2 players from the new coaches old school. They made the tourney. But LSU is unable to do that? Give me a break
Posted on 1/13/25 at 5:13 am to HighRoller
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They made the tourney.
LOL
And how did they fare in the tourney? I know a lot of you younger people, that's all you care about, just making the tourney with no real shot at advancing very far. I get it, you haven't had much success in Men's basketball in your lifetime, supporting LSU. Some of us old timers (i'm 59), we were fortunate to see multiple deep runs, and for a while every year making the tourney and mostly making some noise each time in. Now, it seems to me, we just want to be able to say we made the tourney. I'm hoping for a little more out of the program than a participation trophy...but that's just me.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 6:07 am to chadr07
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What you said is pretty much spot on. Idk why a lot of LSU fans can’t comprehend that. Or maybe they just don’t want to. All I can say is good luck convincing LSU to pay big money for a high caliber basketball coach that could actually turn the program around quick.
Just as importantly, LSU can’t just pay a proven coach his value. Rather, LSU would have to overpay a coach to convince him to leave a better situation and go to try to revive a moribund program like LSU has.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 6:48 am to WDAIII
Tree fiddy
Posted on 1/13/25 at 7:01 am to LSUSkip
Your argument would be valid if Pope brought in a bunch of AA, 5* types but that’s not who’s on Kentuckys roster. It’s a bunch of mid major transfers not elite players from big programs.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 7:14 am to Mandtgr47
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Some of us old timers (i'm 59), we were fortunate to see multiple deep runs, and for a while every year making the tourney and mostly making some noise each time in. Now, it seems to me, we just want to be able to say we made the tourney.
I'm the same age as you, but the mostly making some noise observation is maybe a bit revisionist history or maybe just a small exaggeration.
Dale made the Tourney 13 times and lost in the first round 6 times and the second round another 3 times (twice with Shaq on the team). We made what I would call noise 4 times - 1980, 81, 86 and 87 - four times which IMHO is not mostly.
But for me making the tournament consistently like that would be better than the alternative.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 7:17 am to WDAIII
Whatever the General wants is how much they can pay. Woodward better hand WW a blank check, telling him he can make however much he wants.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 7:18 am to Madking
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Your argument would be valid if Pope brought in a bunch of AA, 5* types but that’s not who’s on Kentuckys roster. It’s a bunch of mid major transfers not elite players from big programs.
2024 LSU Basketball Recruiting Class On3 Ranking- 14th (4th SEC)
2024 Kentucky Basketball Recruiting Class On3 Ranking- 42nd (10th SEC)
LSU Record: 11-5 (0-3 SEC), 71st in Kenpom, 68th in NET
Kentucky Record: 13-3 (2-1 SEC), 21st in Kenpom, 13th in NET
Kentucky is in year 1 of their coach's tenure. We are in year 3.
B-but... but... muh no talent
Posted on 1/13/25 at 7:20 am to WDAIII
I don’t think any well known coach would take this job unless Woodward gave him a blank check, that may not even lure someone to LSU.
SW needs to swallow his pride and beg WW to come back.
SW needs to swallow his pride and beg WW to come back.
Posted on 1/13/25 at 7:26 am to WDAIII
If lsu can pay top dollar to bring national championships home in non revenue sports, seems short sighted to not invest and pay top dollar to bring success to an actual revenue generating sport.
The whole ability to pay becomes a non factor when you have a program that's successful, especially one in a revenue generating sport.
The whole ability to pay becomes a non factor when you have a program that's successful, especially one in a revenue generating sport.
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