re: LSU basketball transfer portal watch

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Why does everyone attack a poster pointing out our coaches deficiencies instead of actually pointing out the coaches actual deficiencies in coaching, team building, experience, and recruiting?

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This is the recruiting board. This thread is for monitoring the transfer portal, who is available and who LSU may be pursuing. There are numerous threads on the Rant for the coaching critique, as you are very well aware. I’m not sure why this is so difficult to understand unless you just want to keep pushing an agenda in every possible thread about basketball.

I am just responding to others who are posting nonrecruiting stuff. Picking me out shows the pro McMahon bias that is unwarranted by his "recruiting " success or lac thereof.

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I am just responding to others who are posting nonrecruiting stuff. Picking me out shows the pro McMahon bias that is unwarranted by his "recruiting " success or lac thereof.

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Your post was responded to thoughtfully. No one "picked you out" unless you are an ellessuuee alter, which appears to be the case.

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the Georgetown coach was recruiting him to Georgetown before his school played in the tournament

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That happens all the time. I suspect there is not a team in America where at least one of their players hasn't been contacted this year (generally by middle-men acting as a conduit between coach and player) to be recruited by another school. So the fact Georgetown (allegedly) was "recruiting" him while he was a member of the TCU team is not a big deal. That's simply a reality in the current age of college basketball. If you are not "tampering" then you are not recruiting to win.

The bigger concern was bailing on TCU right before the tournament. He was going to get minutes in tournament games. In fact, it was TCU's game against Arizona last year in the tournament where he really raised his stock. So if you are a coach at a different school there has to be concern about this guy's buy-in to your program at the first sign of personal adversity (for him). It also, again, goes to show you that playing in the tournament is not as big a deal to players as fans think it it is. Guys want to go to a program that will best benefit them, individually, and/or somewhere they have a connection moreso than to a place where a tournament appearance will be likely.

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Hasn’t he already though?

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At the end of this recruiting cycle we, and everyone else, will judge how well McMahon did or did not do based largely on past play (transfers), rankings and projections...because that all we will have to go on prior to next season. But, that was the case last season too. By that measure you could argue McMahon recruited pretty well. Probably better than expected given the time frame in which he got the LSU job. However, the on-court results were FAR from ideal. That leaves the questions: Was McMahon's recruiting ahead of last season incredibly overrated (or just flat out wrong)? Or did he have solid players and just did a horrible job coaching them?

For me, I was optimistic going into the season because I thought McMahon did a good job putting together a solid roster. Not championship level. But solid. The results this season didn't match that at all. So leaves me lacking confidence he could do anything on the court even if he brings in another top 20ish (HS recruits/transfers combined) class this offseason.

That's a pessimistic way of locking at things and maybe a bit unfair to McMahon, but this season destroyed all benefit of the doubt. Nothing he can do this offseason can change that. He's going to have to prove it on the court.

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Wofford grad transfer BJ Mack is down to 10 schools: LSU Florida Arkansas Iowa Butler Xavier Mississippi State Vanderbilt Michigan South Carolina

Mack, a 6’8” forward averaged 16.6 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 1.4 assists this season.

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Made Mack’s top 10

Top 10 lists from Transfer Portal guys

Gotta love it

It will be interesting to see which players leave and which stay. Would anyone in the SEC, for instance, want any of our players? I am pretty sure Fountain will stay as he has already transferred once. Hill and Hanibal only have eligibility because of the covid year and probably will leave. I would think Coach MM will be looking at young players who he can build with who will be around for at least two more years. I would try to keep all three freshmen but not many of the others. The real question is whether Miller goes or stays. He might be looking to go some other place with friendlier rims and more of a supporting team.

Can’t see Hill returning. He was only getting 3-5 sympathy minutes a game by the end of it. I still believe in Justice Williams.