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Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:02 am to Kool Kaliper
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I know ya'll hate women, and it shows with these pathetic comments.
You hit the nail on the head!
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:02 am to buford4LSU
This wouldn’t be shocking but my gut still says Kim is going to receive solid support until she retires. I think it’s more likely Kim is over the NIL era.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:03 am to LSUminati
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That would not surprise me. In an imperfect world of scarce resources, I want LSU football, baseball, and men's basketball to succeed, and if it means women's basketball has to take a step back, so be it.
Yep. I'd hate to see women's bb fade, but the post rev-share reality will probably force a lot of schools to make similar decisions.
If this is really what's happening, I'd love to see KM retire and stay on in some emeritus role, with one of her assistants taking over for less. But coaches being coaches, I kinda doubt that's possible.
The fairness police can cry all they want, but the reality is that women's bb has never been profitable at any level. The market has spoken.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:03 am to LSBoosie
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I would have no problem if that were the case
You have no problem losing a National Championship winning coach in order to land a guy who can't make it out of the round of 32?!?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:03 am to CP3forMVP
Women’s basketball should be 4th / 5th priority at LSU of spending this era of collegiate sports. Sorry it’s all about the $$$ given revenue share.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:05 am to Sharlo
And I think "profitability" is a tricky concept when it comes to college athletics. You can have loss leaders that provided 2nd and 3rd degree value to the University/State, and Mulkey/LSU Women's has been a shining light. However, there are other programs whose light would shine even brighter if given the proper resources and leadership.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:06 am to SaveFarris
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You have no problem losing a National Championship winning coach in order to land a guy who can't make it out of the round of 32?!?
Kinda. I personally get much more invested in the men’s team. I don’t have much interest in women’s basketball.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:06 am to buford4LSU
I like Mulkey, but this is a business. She isn’t working for a few hundred grand. Men’s basketball can be a big money maker. Women’s basketball never will do anything but lose money. Lots of it.
I’m not saying you are correct, but if so, good.
I’m not saying you are correct, but if so, good.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:07 am to SaveFarris
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You have no problem losing a National Championship winning coach in order to land a guy who can't make it out of the round of 32?!?
I would bet that women's bb budget is on the chopping block, even if the WW intrigue wasn't happening. That program loses ~$8MM per year. LSU can't sustain that long term and compete in the sports that make money.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:11 am to LSUminati
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And I think "profitability" is a tricky concept when it comes to college athletics. You can have loss leaders that provided 2nd and 3rd degree value to the University/State, and Mulkey/LSU Women's has been a shining light. However, there are other programs whose light would shine even brighter if given the proper resources and leadership.
The magnitude of the loss of women's bb is really the problem. Yes, KM has the team as a national brand, and that's worth a lot. But I saw a list of LSU's money-losing sports a while back, and women's bb loses something like double the amount of any other money-losing sport.
I don't see how that can be ignored long term, unless Lane, Jay, and hopefully WW go off in the next few years and there's just so much cash coming in that nobody cares. Hard to see that even happening, as the costs for those sports are of course skyrocketing, too.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:14 am to Sharlo
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that's worth a lot
It’s worth $-7 million
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:14 am to Sharlo
I’ve heard a couple of her recent interviews and it doesn’t sound like she’s thinking about retiring
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:15 am to Cosmo
quote:What An Excellent Day For An EXORCISM!
Excellent
Let's get the Demon McMahonazuzu forced out of here by Father Rousse and Father Mallet, with an assist from Bishop Landry.
Alter Boy Ausberry can clean up all the vomit after it's all over..........
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:16 am to buford4LSU
Did I miss something? When did KM say she is retiring?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:21 am to Kool Kaliper
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What Kim did in her limited time at LSU has been far greater than anything MBB have done in the school history. She brought LSU their first basketball championship, you should show more respect. I know ya'll hate women, and it shows with these pathetic comments.
I like Kim and no one is saying she's accomplished nothing here
The question is, in this era of college sports does it make sense to continually overfund a program that's always going to lose millions? The blue check marks can virtue signal all they want about interest in women's basketball is growing but the numbers don't indicate that
The old model under woodward was when we were drawing from one big pool of money, so you could justify losing money in other sports for the notoriety of winning at a high level. That's no longer the case.
This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 11:21 am
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:21 am to skullhawk
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Did I miss something? When did KM say she is retiring?
People are just making stuff up like 90% of the posts on this board
Will Wade coming back isn’t going to impact anything even if more resources are dumped into MBB. Mulkey multiple times in the last two weeks stated she wants to continue to coach until either her health prevents her or the product becomes bad. She was even offended in the presser the other day that it would suggested she may leave due to being “old” when they brought up Paul retiring at SC
She has an elite freshmen class, lots of talented young players, Caroline Bradley is on the way. I’d be shocked if she retires within next 1-2 years baring something drastic happens
This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 11:27 am
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:23 am to SaveFarris
quote:football and men’s basketball are guaranteed profit makers so yes investing in those two sports is a better decision than WBB.
You have no problem losing a National Championship winning coach in order to land a guy who can't make it out of the round of 32?!?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:25 am to ProjectP2294
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Yes. And their coaching budget and travel budget are higher than baseball's despite having a quarter of the student-athletes.
save a million on coaching staff but deficit goes from -7.5 to -10+ now.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:27 am to buford4LSU
Mulkey makes $3.2M/yr
UCLA's coach makes $775K/yr
7 of the sweet 16 schools have coaches who make under $1M/yr.
4 of them have undisclosed salaries b/c it's a private school.
It is not hard to find someone who makes under $1.5M/yr who could be successful. Move all of those savings to mens basketball and baseball.
Also, maybe not send the team to the Virgin Islands for vacation where they go beat two crappy teams by a combined 137 points. That was a giant waste of money. They go to the Caribbean every year to go beat the crap out of two teams. Meanwhile the mens team is playing in Destin, and West Virginia, and Houston, usually in a hotel ballroom. They've been to the Caribbean twice in the last 8 years. Womens team have been there 6 of the last 7 years. I'm sure taking a team to the Caribbean is a bit more expensive than Destin.
USCe, Duke, Texas and UCLA all went to Vegas for their vacation trip this year. Slightly better competition there to say the least, and not a caribbean island.
UCLA's coach makes $775K/yr
7 of the sweet 16 schools have coaches who make under $1M/yr.
4 of them have undisclosed salaries b/c it's a private school.
It is not hard to find someone who makes under $1.5M/yr who could be successful. Move all of those savings to mens basketball and baseball.
Also, maybe not send the team to the Virgin Islands for vacation where they go beat two crappy teams by a combined 137 points. That was a giant waste of money. They go to the Caribbean every year to go beat the crap out of two teams. Meanwhile the mens team is playing in Destin, and West Virginia, and Houston, usually in a hotel ballroom. They've been to the Caribbean twice in the last 8 years. Womens team have been there 6 of the last 7 years. I'm sure taking a team to the Caribbean is a bit more expensive than Destin.
USCe, Duke, Texas and UCLA all went to Vegas for their vacation trip this year. Slightly better competition there to say the least, and not a caribbean island.
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