re: LSU hoops budget is $8 million but Texas Tech is paying

Is this going to be the go-to excuse for the 2025-26 season as we sit with a 4-14 conference record and a 1-3 record against P4 non-conference?

“Poor little Matt only had $8 million while the rest of the country had $20 million? Gotta give him another year. Can’t let the X’s & O’s guru out the door!”

I wish I was worth a frick at basketball.

This. Basketball almost isn't even worth discussing until the week before the games start because one player tweaks his ankle and everything changes. Speculation at best

As usual you're so on point tigergayt.

Ya know what else we don't have now genius????

A top of the league basketball program that makes the tournament every MOTHERFLUCKING year, and competes for and wins SEC titles.


Everybody knows that college basketball recruiting has been SQUEAKY CLEAN for decades, and then along comes Wade who is probably the only major college basketball coach that ever cheated.

He had to go, right dipshit?????

Please keep your ingenious takes coming on the regular, for the benefit of the rest of the rant. Thanks!!!!!

8 million is very good. Zero excuses now

These neanderthals are so simple minded. They think we are in love with Wade.

No, we're in love with winning, and if McMahon could produce at the same level OR BETTER than Wade, I would be THRILLED.

The problem is, the people with a functioning brain here on the rant realize what we had with Wade. We also realize that McMahon can't cut it in the SEC. He looks and acts like a damned funeral home director, not a top flight coach.

We can only hope that the next hire makes us as highly competitive as the previous coach did.

99% of the time it’ll be a discussion where fans are breaking down the issues that have persisted throughout the current tenure. The mcmen will jump in and after their excuses get debunked their next tactic is to try and diminish the achievements of the previous era and attacking him. It’s a weak and lazy attempt to trivialize everything so that nothing is considered good or of high quality. Thats how he’s introduced almost always. Any other time it’s no different than any other ex coach, when a search comes up, when his team has success or an ex player does something of note etc. Let’s be honest, all these people have are false statements and deflections because there are no facts to stand on for them. There’s also the group of administrative toadies but they defend any and everything, it isn’t specific to this topic.

Stop

So is the actual concept of Name/Image and Likeness pretty much a total farce now? I imagine these kids can pretty much say now - nah, no commercials or endorsements - just the cash.