Does the success of WBB add or remove pressure on MBB?

Make a list of all the coaches Woodward has hired at LSU. Mark their team accomplishments since arriving.




You’ll notice one does not fit with the others.

It should add some pressure but McMahon needs to have at least a decent year this upcoming season. I just don’t see it

Yes...Just think if they both sucked.

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can also see the theory that since WBB has risen so quickly, the MBB team needs to keep pace...thoughts?

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Well, the WBB program did get the benefit of hiring a championship winning coach. I'm not sure there's much to compare there.

That said, if everyone around you is winning and you're not, obviously the focus will be on you.

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Make a list of all the coaches Woodward has hired at LSU. Mark their team accomplishments since arriving. You’ll notice one does not fit with the others.

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Make a list of the coaching resumes of the coaches Woodward hired before they got LSU. One doesn’t belong.

Whoever thought it was a good idea to fire Will Wade did not understand where LSU men’s basketball stands in the national hierarchy. You weren’t going go get a better coach than what you had. And the fan base was behind him.

Dude is about wreck shop in the southland make the tournament 2-3 yrs straight and be right back at Lsu. With NIL he doesn’t have to cheat anymore, he’ll just ask Gordon M.

It's cheaper to win in WBB. NIL money goes further and coaching salary is much easier to pay for the best coach in the country.

I wish it put more pressure on MBB, but I don't think it has any impact.

We are not going to pay a top coach and we certainly don't appear to have the NIL money to compete for top talent on the men's side. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem like it bothers the decision makers enough to get motivated.

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Once the NCAA makes its ruling he will get a couple of years to recruit.

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That's not how this works anymore. You don't "build" a roster over time. You have to rebuild your roster every year and the NCAA investigation has little to no impact on our ability to build a roster this year. What does impact our ability is the fact that we either (1) don't have the NIL resources to compete or (2) are not using the NIL resources we have in the best way possible. I think its actually both, we don't have a big enough bag of NIL money and from what I understand, we aren't scaling payouts based on talent.

Look at South Carolina. Womens basketball has 0 to do with mens basketball

Added. A ton of pressure added. He has an impossible job.

I never said we CAN’T do it, I said our current administration is not going to do it. I completely agree that we could hire a top coach and could dedicate NIL resources to MBB. I don’t think the decision makers care enough about it.

Using the Chris Beard situation is an extreme outlier. He was on the coaching rehab tour and that is the only reason he goes some place like OM. Same can be said for Auburn and Bruce Pearl. However both Auburn and OM have made significant commitments to basketball, not just with coaches, but also facilities. I think LSU is capable of making similar commitments, but don’t think the leadership is interested in doing it.

Hell, we had a coach getting us to the NCAAT annually and competing at the top of the conference, and the admin was waiting for its opportunity to get rid of him. Then we replaced him with a coach that is making a salary that puts him in the bottom 1/2 of the league. Again, lack of commitment to succeeding.

Goes back to original statement. For a much cheaper price, this administration would rather put the resources into WBB.