re: A total reset of the basketball program is needed w/ 2 exceptions.

youre going to have to hire a name... like Pitno or someone...

C'mon man gotta keep Tasmin. He will have the keys to the car at some point and my expectations will be high.
From a roster standpoint, everyone but Chest should check their portal options.

Can I add a 7th?

Deep clean the PMAC on the inside and outside. The place is filthy.

Reset will happen when the new arena is finished.

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Every aspect of the men’s basketball program needs a complete overhaul at the end of the season. LSU basketball has no culture and everything about it feels bland, boring & pathetic right now. 1. Matt McMahon needs to be fired. Great guy, but his coaching this year is unacceptable and total apathy has set in for even the most die hard fans. With the effort shown Saturday against Texas the players may have given up as well. 2. Everyone on the coaching staff needs to be fired. There is not a single person on the coaching staff doing what they need to do. All have to go. No exceptions. 3. Get plans for a new arena finalized and construction started, but do it right. The new coach can add whatever smaller details once hired. 4. Have a new court and new uniforms for next year. We’ve worn the same geaux font uniforms with few changes for 20 years. We’ve had pretty much the same court for almost as long. Most of those years have been terrible. You can’t change the culture if everything still looks the same. 5. Replace any person associated with marketing, promotions, graphic design, merchandising, video board operation, etc... Every one of them is mediocre to terrible at what they do. Whoever is in charge of working with Nike to put out basketball apparel can be fired as well. Anyone associated with the day to day operations of the program needs to be gone, with two exceptions. 6. The only two people associated with the basketball program who should be retained are John Brady and Kent Lowe. Brady is an excellent radio commentator. Kent Lowe, by all accounts is a great SID. The coaching staff needs to be fired by the end of the SEC tournament. Support staff need to be replaced by the end of June. LSU basketball is getting left behind in the SEC and nothing will change unless everything changes.

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Agree with most of this except that MM is a great guy. I feel like this was some type of narrative that was placed on us to make us feel better that he is a terrible coach. He may go home and beat his wife for all we know.

Regardless, I agree with everything OP said otherwise.

Biggest thing in your post that you mentioned is retaining Kent Lowe. He is a national treasure. The man eats, sleeps and breathes LSU basketball. He absolutely needs to remain SID as long as he wants to.

As I have said before, please, hire a high energy coach. Obviously,WW Would inject much needed energy into the program. If he is not interested, a young, high energy coach would still bring massive energy into the program.

This would dovetail into the new arena as well.

Wade is not as perfect as this board makes him out to be but Woodward has to make a hire that will bring immediate excitement to the program. Wade would do that and get us winning

Basically, to bring excitement to this fanbase the hire has to be some crazy name we have 0% chance at ever getting (Coach K, Billy Donovan, Phil Jackson) or Will Wade.