re: Incoming Basketball Transfers

You're awfully cute using words like "mature enough" and "petulant children".

You call folks "miserable" who call it like they see it. The facts are LSU basketball is at the bottom of the conference with no way out!

The program is light years behind the rest of the SEC. You can roll that in your pipe and smoke it however you wish. There is no denying the facts but please get back to your rant about being mature enough to sunshine pump this program.....

And you are awfully cute with your desire to stomp out any optimism or objective positivity because you think the coach sucks (he might). You want everybody to be as mad as you because you think it will change something, it won't. The coach is here for another year so might as well try to objectively look at he next year's prospects

Exactly OG. These people are miserable as they wake up every morning figuring out what crap they can say about Mcmahon every day. They are NOT Tiger fans. They will continue to bitch all year long but claim not to be "petulant". Mcmahon is here for this year. He is making some moves to try and improve the talent. They have added to the coaching staff. If he fails he will be fired. But to sit here every day and say they will suck no matter what is not what a true tiger fan does.

Optimism. That's like continuing to date a girl in high school that your friends tell you he saw with another dude on the backroads. You disengage and move on.....or you can continue to bury your head in the sand while the rest of the league laughs at you!! The choice is yours!!!!!

I don't think you comprehend how bad LSU has been over the last 3 years.....

Your definition of Rational deserves an A for OUTSTANDING.

Continue to clap for a "Bag of Cash" and the McMonsters that that he is recruiting in the portal. OUTSTANDING with a capital O!

"LSU upped their NIL budget".................so did everybody else Beavis!!!!

lol it’s the same exact people who were screaming “IT ONLY TAKES ONE YEAR TO TURN IT AROUND IN BASKETBALL” that are now saying it’s impossible for us to turn it around next year by using the portal

So just so we’re clear: you think it’s possible to be in top part of this league without significant NIL financial backing? You think Nate Oats, Bruce Pearl, Cal, Barnes and Mark Pope are just scrapping by with funding? Are you aware what we are competing against?! This isn’t the SEC basketball of your heyday gramps.

You have serious issues
Texas Tech may eat 8 Mil, if Toppin goes down with an injury.

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So just so we’re clear: you think it’s possible to be in top part of this league without significant NIL financial backing? You think Nate Oats, Bruce Pearl, Cal, Barnes and Mark Pope are just scrapping by with funding? Are you aware what we are competing against?! This isn’t the SEC basketball of your heyday gramps.

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I think people are trying to view NIL in a structured, regulated manner, as if the way it works is the LSU AD, for three years, has given McMahon a set NIL budget from which to work. That LSU, the school, only gave McMahon $2M while Tennessee, the school, gave Barnes $6M. That's not the case. Neither school gave either HC anything.

A coach is only limited by the amount he can fundraise. There is no hard cap set by the schools. If a coach can convince wealthy people to give him authority offer a player a NIL deal worth $20M, so be it. Collectives have created a bit of structure. But again, there is no "cap" on those either. If LSU supporters, collectively, want to donate $75 million to the collective, they can.

That means if McMahon has had "no money" relative to the other SEC programs, then it is largely HIS fault because he hasn't been a good enough fundraiser. There is, and has been, literally nothing stopping him from raising millions for his program other than his ability or inability to convince people to give it to him...no different from any business that works to fundraise for their business.

When Wade got the LSU job the first thing he did was go all over the state meeting and speaking with various groups, civic associations and business. He wasn't doing that to get 6 kids in Lafayette to like LSU basketball or in hopes of convincing a wealthy business owner in Monroe to come to BR for a game or two. He was doing it to raise money for the program. Money he, of course, used to pay blue chip recruits....just like Roy Williams, Coach K, Bruce Pearl, etc, etc. That was his first order of business upon his arrival at McNeese. If you had money, wade would try to convince you to donate to the basketball program so he could pay players.

McMahon's problem has been the same as Trent Johnson's. Neither particularly liked the fundraising aspect of being a HC. So if they didn't have any money it was mostly their fault. I know a guy who works for one a company owned by one of the bigger LSU donors in the area. Wade went and spoke at the company multiple times when he was at LSU. Mulkey has done the same thing every year. Jay Johnson has, as has Brian Kelly. You know who hasn't? McMahon. He sent assistant coach recently. Hell, I don't even think McMahon has ever spoke at the BR Rotary Club...where every LSU HC generally speaks.

The narrative that poor old Matt has just been hamstrung by LSU not giving him any money is bullshite. He hasn't wanted to go out and shake the trees to get it. How do yall think Johnny Jones was able to sign blue chip players? It's because Johnny knew who the deep pockets were and went with Dale to get the money...just like they did in the 80's