re: LSU doubling down on McMahon, saying NIL key to future.

Noooooo

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Here is my order of preference:

1) Fire MM and bring Wade back
2) Keep MM with an increased NIL budget
3) Fire MM and bring in someone other than Wade

Is this reasonable?

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I don't think #1 was ever happening so it looks like you are getting #2.

I don't know if I hate this as much as some others but I tend to be positive about LSU athletics, perhaps foolishly so. I think increasing the NIL budget combined with the plans for new facilities signals that LSU is getting serious about men's basketball and if MM underperforms again potential high level coaches will not be reticent to take the LSU job.

This is like the government. Just throw more money at it and it’ll fix it!

Seriously, I think they are doing this to exhaust all options of support for McMahon. The last thing you want is for there to be a narrative that the AD isn’t going to pony up for hoops when you’re doing a coaching search. This is not to say I agree with what LSU is going here entirely, but I can see the angle they are going with.

Just keep money to football and baseball. It’s a new landscape.

Basketball can get fricked

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I know you’re happy with this news but those of us with standards are talking. We’ll call you back to the discussion after we end up getting waxed in the last five games of the season.

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Nice deflection. What sort of fan would pull for their team to lose when it will not affect the thing they think they want to change? It is a childish way of thinking. I have seen you say you are hoping for LSU to lose multiple times. I cannot recall you ever saying anything positive about LSU. The only conclusion I can come up with is you are not an LSU fan. But maybe you are just irrational.

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Just keep money to football and baseball. It’s a new landscape.

Basketball can get fricked

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So completely ignore the only other profitable sport outside of football, where some schools profit tens of millions every year.

Do you work for the government per chance?

Where is that ballchamp guy???

He said he has sources he was gone

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I hope South Carolina wins tomorrow

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We know. You hate LSU. Go cheer for another school

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Two simple questions:

1. Where is this new, significant influx of money coming from?

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I do not know but I have to assume there is either someone or a group of people donating to Bayou Traditions specifically for basketball or maybe some general funds in Bayou Traditions being redirected to basketball. It is not athletic department money nor is it directly related to ticket sales.

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2. Why hasn't it been there in the 3 years prior?

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No idea, I wonder if it was a chicken or egg conundrum for the people directing these funds. Perhaps they thought winning would increase available money but may have figured out that money spent will increase winning which will then cover the money spent and increase available money coming in.

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The support from the everyday fan is at rock bottom. I know, I'm one of the few at the games. You and 2,000 of your friends can come too if you'd like. Tickets start at $3.00 a pop. Is the AD going to parachute a hat down from the rafters along with the hot dogs to take up a collection at the last 4 home games? Did some LSU basketball fan suddenly come into a massive sum of money?

No one felt moved enough to donate tremendous sums of money for three seasons, yet, after the current HC finishes year three with a, likely 45-50+ overall record, that money is just going to come flying in to the same guy?

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It kind of makes me think that someone or a group decided they would up their game in the NIL arena. I hope they did it with strings of we quickly get expected results or we change coaches very quickly.