re: If you want to know for sure if McMahon is competent at LSU

If our diabetic AD spent as much time doing his actual job as he did in this pathetic pr campaign he might not need to run or campaigns

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give him a $6M NIL budget and see how he does next year. That is middle of the road in SEC spending. Miss State spent $4M this year and we are at $2M along with USC at the bottom of the league.

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Whether or not this reveals his competency or lack thereof or not, It is apparently what is going to be attempted. Now in may not be $6 million but allegedly it's going to be significantly more than what it was or at least was reported to be this year.

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give him a $6M NIL budget and see how he does next year. That is middle of the road in SEC spending. Miss State spent $4M this year and we are at $2M along with USC at the bottom of the league.

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There is absolutely no doubt that you morons parroting this bullshite are still double masking while driving alone in your cars and getting ready to line up for your 12th “vaccine” booster.

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If you’re right, this is absolute AD malpractice. To think an instant solution to our problem could be found quickly and easily and is wanted by major boosters but his ego is too big to consider so we tank the program even further for another year

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AD's have to deal with folks coming to them all the time and because some of these guys may have some money and influence they have to listen to some wild stuff all the time I'm sure.

This is a pretty unique circumstance and the politics of this WW thing is really difficult and I don't expect there is any chance of it happening, but I would be willing to bet Scott DEFINITELY does not want it to happen. And he's the AD, so......

I would add this, if you thing folks of influence aren't approaching Scott to reach out to WW that would be naive.

But if you also think other folks of influence aren't reaching out to him to say do that over my dead body that would also be naive.

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Yeah, I have a different theory on this. I don't think he went to anyone looking for a buyout. I think people came to him and said "we have the solution just to the west and his two-year show cause ends this year".

I don't think Scott wanted to deal with this in any way, shape or form, but I think he knew if he could float the narrative to Mascona and other media about the NIL imbalance it could buy him at least another year and by that time someone else will have hired the guys just to the west and he'd have sidestepped what for him would be an awkward circumstance of even having to discuss it with prominent alumni.

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Anything is possible. But I tend to believe the simplest answer is often the best answer.

Woodward hasn't been shy about quickly firing underperforming coaches at LSU. He fired O, Mainieri (effectively) and Fargas within two years of him taking the LSU job. ALL of those coaches had a greater history of success at LSU than McMahon has had here. Hell, O was fired less than 2 years after the greatest season in LSU history. One that earned him a big raise and extension. Thus, it would be out of character for Woodward to just rubber-stamp bottom of the league results (LSU has been the worst program in the SEC over the last 3 seasons) for 3 years. He's knows how bad the program has been. He's seen (even from afar) how the interest and attendance is severely waning. So I do think he probably had backchannel discussions with potential donors about buying McMahon out.

The problem is he and LSU just went to those donors for a BIG push to support the football program. They bought out the entire defensive staff last season and, understandably, went "all in" on transfers ahead of this upcoming season. He likely went back to those same sources and they said "Sorry. We are tapped out for this year. You asked us to put all of our chips in on football, and we did." That means LSU doesn't have the money to pay MM's buyout and make a new hire. The hope is that next fall the football team will produce the ROI for the donors and bring in big money for the AD. If/when that happens some cash will be freed up to make a change in basketball.

Of course, the AD can't come out and say that. But he also has to craft some reason to justify bringing MM back for another year despite dismal results. That "justification" is to simply say he will be back with a bigger NIL commitment. By their nature, NIL figures are completely speculative. No one truly knows how much is or is not spent. The fans and media can't prove or disprove NIL data. That makes it an easy, unverifiable, excuse to sell.

Men's basketball won't suddenly get an influx of NIL money that, if you believe the AD, hasn't been there for 3 years. If that money was there it could (and likely would) be used just to buy out MM. Or it would have been spent earlier if increase NIL is the "magic elixir" to make MM a great HC. But the excuse will placate the masses who only follow basketball on a surface level, and buy another year of this waste of time until LSU has the funds to make a change. (see the topic of this thread as exhibit A)

PULL THE PLUG

Why put off the inevitable?

Bailey ain't worth a dime in NIL and Sears either because of his height liability.

It's been pretty well established that the kid from Richmond (who's missing a few vowels in his first name) was paid $450k to come here

He's AT BEST the fifth best player on the team, so it's pretty obvious McMahon was working with considerably more than $2 million in NIL this year.

Don't put it past the AD to blow smoke up everyone's arse (regarding NIL) while PRAYING that Wade is hired away before the inevitable firing of this CLOWN after next season.