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LSU basketball: 1/21/2025 vs 1/21/2026
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:35 am
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:35 am
2025
Overall: 12-6
SEC: 1-4
2026
Overall: 13-6
SEC: 1-5
What a difference a year and a lot more NIL money makes.
Overall: 12-6
SEC: 1-4
2026
Overall: 13-6
SEC: 1-5
What a difference a year and a lot more NIL money makes.
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Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:36 am to LSUbasketballfan
We are bad and the administration has proven they do not care about MBB.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:38 am to LSUbasketballfan
This is not a defense of McMahon or a statement that we should keep him, but we could have more wins if Thomas wasn't injured.
Again, it's not a defense of McMahon because we shouldn't be in a position to be non-competitive in conference because one guy gets hurt.
Again, it's not a defense of McMahon because we shouldn't be in a position to be non-competitive in conference because one guy gets hurt.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:39 am to tigerbait1.6
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the administration has proven they do not care about MBB.
The administration is under new management; how much they care will be obvious after the season is over.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:40 am to LSUbasketballfan
Chill out guys he only needs 3 more years
This post was edited on 1/21/26 at 8:41 am
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:42 am to tigerbait1.6
quote:
the administration has proven they do not care about MBB
The old administration didn't care. But a big part of the regime change was the fact that members of the board (and the gov) wanted to make a change last year with basketball and were told no. I think you're going to see money pour in after this season.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:44 am to Cshaw91
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Chill out guys he only needs 3 more years
I'll take "What literally no one is saying" for $1000, Ken.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:44 am to LSUbasketballfan
This is a soft basketball team.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:46 am to LSUbasketballfan
quote:
2026
Overall: 13-6
SEC: 1-5
quote:
What a difference a year and a lot more NIL money makes
Well this is just incredibly misleading
We have been without our most expensive “$3M” player for the start of SEC. Most people would say we would be 3-3 or 4-2 if he was healthy.
See what happens the rest of SEC with a healthy DJ Thomas
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:47 am to mdomingue
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The administration is under new management; how much they care will be obvious after the season is over.
This.
McMahon is only here because the former administration didn't want to make the LSU job open with a very popular former LSU employee having success a few hours down I-10. Even if he somehow "turns things around" this season and gets 5, 6, 7, SEC wins, it's very clear to all except those who simply don't want to see it that McMahon is never going to be the guy to lead this program to any sustained level of success. This year was an unnecessary waste of time (just like Johnson's 4th season and Jones' 5th where change was inevitable). Retaining McMahon for a 5th season would simply be negligent business practices and, perhaps, the most illogical coaching decision in the modern history of LSU sports given NO coach who has had such little success has had such a long rope.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:47 am to ProjectP2294
You are wasting your time. These are not critical thinking individuals these are emotional juveniles. And it's 2 injured players counting Reed who was their best bench player at the time of his injury. There have been a number of ranked SEC teams blown out on the road this year. And LSU even with a healthy DJ doesn't beat that FL team. They are big and good. Probably a 2 seed by end of the year. That was a game a healthy Reed would have helped. But it is what it is. Hopefully DJ can continue to get healthy and give them a chance in the remaining games but he still isn't 100% and didn't have the explosive first step or physicality he has shown before the injury.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:48 am to JimTiger72
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Most people would say we would be 3-3 or 4-2 if he was healthy.
Most people also say your aunt would be your uncle if she had balls.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:49 am to rutiger
So we spent “more money” this year but got the same results so far because our “more money” hasn’t played
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:54 am to JimTiger72
Its a basketball TEAM, every team deals with injuries.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 8:59 am to ProjectP2294
I reed was healthy they would be better.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 9:06 am to JimTiger72
quote:
Most people would say we would be 3-3 or 4-2 if he was healthy.
And if we would have signed Darryn Peterson we'd likely be 19-0 right now
This post was edited on 1/21/26 at 9:07 am
Posted on 1/21/26 at 9:08 am to mcspufftiger7
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And it's 2 injured players counting Reed who was their best bench player
I'm not counting Reed because he hasn't been able to stay healthy. If you want to count him, fine, but it makes it even worse. Because we saw what happened to the team last year when he got hurt and seemingly nothing was done to make sure we weren't in the same position this year.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 9:11 am to mcspufftiger7
quote:
You are wasting your time
The unintended irony of this statement. The ENTIRE McMahon tenure has been a big waste of time. He could have Thomas, Reed, and prime Hakeem Olajuwon, and still struggle to be more than an average team in the SEC. He's coached nearly 120 games at LSU. How much "bad luck" can a guy have?
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And it's 2 injured players counting Reed who was their best bench player at the time of his injury.
So we've now moved from Reed being basically one of the two most important players in the program to "LSU's best bench player". Reed is a decent player...at times. But he's never been a program changer.
No, it was unlikely LSU was beating Florida. Even with Thomas at full bore. But, like so many other LSU games, it was abunantly clear the way LSU operates vs. how Florida plays is night and day. Florida has a plan. They adjust. The play hard. McMahon just kind of runs the team out there and hopes the gameplan works.
There is this fallacy that simply inserting Thomas into the line up in the first 5 games would have changed everything. However, when you change one variable, all variables change. It's unlikely the other guys who stepped up in those games would have produced at the same level. Every single data point in the McMahon history says LSU would have still likely lost (maybe all) of those games...just in different fashion.
He's been the worst LSU coach, any sport, this century and maybe the worst in 50+ years. Barring a remarkable turnaround, he's going to (hopefully) finish his LSU career with a losing record. Something that has only happened twice in the nearly 120 year history of the program. Something made more remarkable given he's played ~40 games vs. opponents LSU pays money to defeat. Fans...the few that remain...are tired of endless list of excuses and "what ifs" somehow trying to justify the unjustifiable.
It's like doting mothers of a career D student. "He really is smart. He's just had some bad teachers....and he had mono one year....and one of the kids in his class was mean...and the test were just too hard."
Sorry ma'am. Your son is a nice boy. Unfortunately, he's just a window licker.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 9:18 am to mcspufftiger7
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mcspufftiger7
You're such a pitiful person.
I'm going to pray for you to get help.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 9:23 am to Alt26
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There is this fallacy that simply inserting Thomas into the line up in the first 5 games would have changed everything.
Youve previously said that they would probably be 3-2. (3-3 now)
quote:
Every single data point in the McMahon history says LSU would have still likely lost (maybe all) of those games...just in different fashion.
Oh now you say they would’ve been 0-5. They literally beat Mizzou without him
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