re: LSU Men's hoops

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The problem with their excuses is there’s zero factual support for them and there are plenty of other coaches who’ve won with far less.

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To me the real litmus test will be how Bucky McMillan does at A&M this season. If he comes in and wins immediately, then the McMen will be in a tizzy. Aside from McMillan (due to a lack of an SEC track record), McMahon is objectively the least accomplished coach within the SEC.

I don’t think McMillan is any good but I do think you can look at someone like Mike White who isn’t anything special but coaches em up enough to keep his teams heads above water almost every season. Now when LSUs job opening happened if someone had suggested Mike White mcmen type fans would’ve laughed at that but now worship someone who is obviously levels below him.

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Madking is the Madking of fake news. he doesn't know squat about who spent what

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maybe if we ask him politely and try to enter into polite and calm discussion he wont tell us all to go frick ourselves and die. maybe there is some evidence about how LSU hoop was funded at the same rate at the competition he has.

crossing my fingers but expecting to be told I am a Satan worshipping Nazi pedo lying sack of excrement for even considering it

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That information has already been posted and you’ve seen it

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could you link to it again without calling anyone a evil hellspawn son of a whore who deserves instant murder and genocide of all our families?

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Your troll game is F-

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could you please politely answer the question? some of us have not seen the numbers you are referencing?

if you cant or just start imploding again I will politely assume you are suffering from some sort of anger Alzheimer's or rage dementia or something and stop encouraging it

Here is what happened. Believe me if you want, or not.

In mid-February LSU was 12-12 (1-10) at the bottom of the of SEC for the second time in 3 years. The level of apathy surrounding the program was reaching an inflection point. With approximately 3 weeks left in the season there was a group of wealthy/connected LSU basketball fans (yes, LSU basketball has some of those) who wanted to bring Will Wade back to LSU and were working to put the wheels in motion to do that. The connections for those people went as high as Gov. Landry.

Tate and Woodward were aware of the push to try to get Wade back to LSU. However, they were unequivocally against even considering re-hiring Wade. The reason is because they felt Wade directly lied to them on multiple occasions during the NCAA investigation and they flat out didn't trust him. That put them at odds with connected/influential people.

To combat that push behind the scenes to get Wade back Tate/Woodward decided internally they were not going to fire McMahon despite the awful results and ever diminishing lack of interest in the program. The reason is because they DID NOT want to have a situation where LSU was in the market for a new coach with Wade at McNeese. Had the LSU job come open the demand to get Wade back would have grown from just a small group of donors behind the scenes to the public at large. If the LSU job wasn't open that meant there was no spot for Wade.

However, giving a public vote of confidence for a coach with such an abysmal record would not have been all that well received. There needed to be some justification for keeping McMahon despite the constant losing and they couldn't say publicly "we are keeping him because we do not want to hire Wade". That "justification" for the terrible results was a "lack of spending" and a promise to increase it in conjunction with retaining McMahon.

The timing and the source of the report LSU was going to retain McMahon for year 4 was NOT coincidental. It was pushed out by the AD to combat the push for Wade. Don't think so? Look back to media member who initially broke that story. It was Shea Dixon. That was a pretty odd source given Dixon's focus has always been football recruiting. Odd until you consider his wife is Emily Dixon who, "coincidentally" works for the athletic department.

If LSU's NIL funding was severely lacking that fact would have been known MONTHS before the season even started because the NIL funds are extended to build the roster in April, May, June. It's not like schools are signing "free agents" just before the start or during the season. Yet, news of LSU's purported severe lack of funding didn't come out until the season had completely gone to shite and there were only 3 weeks left in the season...nearly 8 months after the roster was complete.

Tate and Woodward assumed (probably correctly) that if they held on to McMahon for one more year Wade would be out of LA at a power conf. school and they wouldn't have to deal with a push for him if they ultimately chose to fire McMahon at the end of year 4. What they miscalculated is just how vindictive and attention hungry Landry is, which you saw on full display with the BK saga. In rejecting the push for Wade they made an enemy of the governor and his circle. THAT is why Tate was shortly thereafter "encouraged" to take the Rutgers job. It's also why Landry and his group seized the opportunity to push Woodward out when the LSU football season took a nosedive.

So no, LSU didn't have a massive lack of funding relative to the rest of the SEC. That was just the best excuse available for the admin to buy another year to rid themselves of the "Wade problem". But for those searching for an excuse to fit a cause it was as good as any.

Now, you know the rest of the story.

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failed troll attempt

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so you don't have the numbers then?

You’ve seen me post em unlike you who has never supported his claims.

No you were provided this information in the spring the first time you tried this narrative. You're now lying about not ever seeing it which is what you do because you’re a troll.