re: Do people actually go to the Matt McMahon Show at TJ Ribs?

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Interesting way to let everyone know you are a bitch with no backbone and lack the stones go face to face with another man you have a grievance with.

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damn lol you really couldn’t tell he was joking? I bet you’re the parent that screams at 10’yr old baseball games. What a tool

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The Pirate King has a reserved table

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With a brass plaque on it

I go for the McRibs and McCamaraderie.

It’s not about wins and losses, it’s about the McFriends we make supporting the McMen.

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The Pirate King has a reserved table

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for one.

Not sure, CMM is a good guy but he just doesn't have the personality to drive interest in his show and combine that with the product on the court I can't imagine very many folks would go or listen outside family and truly hard core friends of the program.

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Did Mcpuff say that the faker DJ Thomas won't play again tomorrow because he's day to day for the 8th week in a row! Prediction Thomas won't play the rest of the year,I hope I'm wrong.

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You can be pissed with the HC. But there's no basis to call the kid a "faker". Doing so means you assume he played the entire non-conf. schedule only to then "fake" and injury to sit out SEC play? That doesn't make much sense. LSU didn't perform poorly in the non-conf. schedule, so it's not like the season was lost by the time SEC play started, giving a guy reason to quit.

The most logical answer is Thomas did suffer an injury/re-injury. The staff was not going to force him to play if there was a chance doing so would cause further significant injury. Unfortunately, LSU tanked during those first 5 games without him. He returned and presumably reinjured the foot/ankle again. At this point LSU is 2-8 in SEC play and it not going to make the postseason. So from Thomas's perspective I'm sure he sees the "reward" (playing in 8 or 9 more games) doesn't outweigh the risk of further injury.

Why was he able to succeed elsewhere but not with LSU?

I actually thought the same and went to LSU's website to see if he was still doing the show. Apparently he still does, though LSU doesn't want to advertise it any more.

I remember at the start of the season, they used to post about it at least twice a week reminding everybody. Now the LSU basketball page has gone silent. I think the student that was maintaining the page has opted out as well!!

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Ja Morant.

Same as Curley Hallman in football with Brett Favre as his QB at Southern Miss

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It's hard to defend McMahon much, but this is another one of those groupthink narratives that once anyone does a little surface level research you realize isn't really accurate.

Morant only played two seasons at Murray St. Certainly, he helped spring board Murray to better seasons after MM's first two years, but MM finished (tied) for first in the OVC the year after Morant left and then had his best season, 31-3, 3 years after Morant was gone. More than anything, that's what got him hired at LSU. Hallman, on the other hand, had Favre as his QB all three seasons he was at USM.