re: Are these basketball additions really gonna make a difference?

Bringing in players with the types of skills everyone has been clamoring for, then bitching because they're from smaller programs or conferences, or international players. These are the exact type of players we see balling out at Auburn (Broome, Sears) , Or Tn (Knecht, Vescovi), UF (Clayton). Yet y'all are willing to count out the LSU transfers from the get go.

This site use to be such a pleasure to read and get into meaningful discussions. But you miserable prigs just bring everything down for no reason other than it's not your lord Wade doing the leading and its just damn depressing. As I said, it may or may not work. I'm just willing and anxious to see.

That's the rub.

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This site use to be such a pleasure to read and get into meaningful discussions.

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Later Brady, TJ and CJJ were such wonderful meaningful discussions between the dozens of us that still cared.

No one ever has been given this leash to lose as CoachMc. Maybe Curley in football, but that’s not a good standard.

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Calipari isnt a great coach

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I never said he was a great coach. Just that he’s better than what we have (who isn’t?)

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Every player outside of Mike Williams improved.

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Wait a second. If that’s true, then why did Vyc Miller and Chest practically quiet quit last season? Why did the McMen say that Chest was no big loss and “had no offensive skills”? Did Givens improve? This board tells me otherwise.

As for Mike Williams, there were games last season where it seemed like he would be the only one to make shots. Yet inexplicably our genius coach would barely play him.

Yes or no: if McMahon misses the NCAA tournament this season, should he be fired?

What I’m wondering is where are all these All American power conference transfers that LSU should be getting? Because I haven’t noticed much of any of those caliber players in the transfer portal. It’s hard to get them if they aren’t there lol

Wow. Way to take what I said completely out of context. Your boyfriend Circle K claimed that McMahon has never developed any player, so i merely pointed out how every player outside of Mike Williams improved from years to year.

Perhaps you would like to counter that instead of some made up narrative?

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Yet y'all are willing to count out the LSU transfers from the get go.

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It's not necessarily counting out the players. It's counting out the coach. This class of transfers doesn't look all that different from prior classes. Mid-major guys with potential and a track record of success at a lower level sprinkled in with a largely non-descript major conf. player or two.

Have we seen mid-major players come into the SEC and be stars? Absolutely....but not under McMahon. That, in fact, is "the rub" and why few are optimistic things will be different.

In February once the season went to shite and AD put out the message of LSU "low NIL" funding as the justification for retaining McMahon....in spite of another dismal season the focus changed to the offseason. LSU was finally going to spend with the big boys. Well...this class doesn't really reflect that. In fact, when the rankings shake out they are going to mirror the 2022 signing class (both in quantity and quality). That was McMahon's worst season in a career to bad seasons.

McMahon will, again, get his chance to prove all of the doubters wrong this season. Just like the prior three rosters there is a path to success.
But it's not illogical for fans who have seen this story before to not try to convince themselves this class is McMahon's Phi Slamma Jamma and happy times are here.

When you have a sub .500 overall winning % and a .250 winning % in the conference (both 3 year lows) you don't get the benefit of the doubt.

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We have the best baseball coach in the nation and our fans pile on him like he's Coach O so what should we expect from our fans when it comes to a coach with a losing SEC record.

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Blind unwavering support and excuses. If any other coach had a 14 and 40 SEC record under his belt, dudes would be out with pitchforks.

Instead he gets a free pass and is constantly defended by the mcgraffs and manpussy47s of the world. It's delusion run amok.

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so i merely pointed out how every player outside of Mike Williams improved from years to year.

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This would mean a lot more if we had good retention but we don’t so it doesn’t

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LSU came out and said NIL would get a big boost but we've only brought in one really good player from the portal.

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I think you are seeing what many said back in February. The NIL narrative was messaging put out to provide justification for the decision to bring McMahon back for a 4th year despite the poor results and apathy in the program. The timing of the sudden blitz in reporting it (after the season had gone poorly and just ahead of LSU playing the other worst team in the SEC) along with the original source of the news, a guy whose primary focus is football recruiting, who just so happens to be married to a woman who works in the athletic dept, raised suspicion to anyone willing to conduct critical thinking. The fact that the messaging was swallowed without a hint of skepticism by so many is probably a testament to just how low the level of interest and expectations are in the program.

The players LSU has currently signed in the portal aren't necessarily "bad". But, like you noted, it isn't reflective a significant increase relative to prior signing classes.