re: Matt McMahon's LSU MBB Contract

He just needs an assistant coach that does Will Wade Business and players will come.

LSU athletics is self-sufficient and it is not supported by tax dollars, money from the university, or fees from student tuition.

The base salary is the only portion the University covers.

Better grab a handful of snickers. This basketball program ain’t going nowhere for a few years minimum.

But hey, baseball is going to knock it out the park for the foreseeable future.

Football will be exciting to kick around.

And womens basketball is gaining steam the next few years.

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Matt McMahon's LSU MBB Contract

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Trust Woodward.

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have you seen the list of guys we have coming in?we are gonna be bottom feeders in the SEC for awhile

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I agree, on Feb 7 it looks bleak. But we’ll know better in April and once the transfer portal weeds itself out. LSU can offer instant playing time.

McMahon came to LSU at the end of the ‘21-‘22 recruiting cycle. He was able to convince 3 players to stay and pick up 3 top 150 high school kids. He also brought over 3 pretty decent kids with him from Murray St. Considering the circumstances, at least on paper, he did a good job assembling a roster of bodies to put on the court.

In hindsight the on-court play hasn’t been very good as of late. But this team was never going to be very good, and only the very optimistic or uninformed expected otherwise.

Teams are negative recruiting the hell out of LSU. Plus McMahon runs a clean program. We’ll see if success is possible doing that in a top D-1 basketball conference.

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Clean programs and boring coaches can’t win in the sec. It didn’t work when original TJ was here and the league was way down . Now Vanilla TJ is here and the sec is super strong with dick bags like Cal and Oates.

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Though the white TJ name is spot on, at least Trent Johnson won the SEC here. McMahon won't ever sniff that kind of success especially signing the 8th best players on other teams rosters as transfers and the 50th ranked class every season.

No doubt he was given a tough hand. Brian Kelly was too. So was Mulkey. So were a few other SEC Basketball coaches, they seem to be dealing with it all.

When coaches have massive turnarounds, at least you see his principles being instilled during the tough times and the ability to adjust and play to a teams strengths. It's the same in football, soccer, basketball, baseball, etc. Coaches adjust to their talent level and then they get the players they want and boom. Wade did it year 1. That team sucked on paper, however Wade used what he described as "smoke and mirrors" to make them competitive and play hard in his first year. He made the NIT with the preseason #13 or 14 team in the league.

Nothing about McMahon's performances so far give me any hope. His team doesn't play hard, his energy sucks arse (it sucks the energy out of the team and fanbase), and his adjustments suck. Even the Arkansas win doesn't even look impressive considering their struggles this season.

As I've said before, the secret to Woody's hiring Big name coaches is the Brinks Truck called LSU Boosters.

Lucked out with Kelly, Johnson and Mulkey?

75% isn’t luck unless you use rantard logic.

Programs are competing against each other to sign these guys. You have to put together an attractive offer to get them to come to your school.