re: Men’s BBall invest more into NIL

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we should stick with the known failure.

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That we hired (mistake) for the remainder of his contract (2 years) while giving him a better chance to win (budget increase). Has little to do with his coaching ability more about money management & risk analysis.

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The question I have is, why are we bringing MM back in the first place? It makes ZERO sense…

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agreed. He has already proven that he can’t get it done at LSU. Another year will be more time and money wasted.

So you’d have to have your head in the sand as an AD if you thought this guy would put a winnjng product on the floor with a $2mill budget. I have no idea what we have spent on a roster only what has been said or reported. But if we are going to run it back with McMahon, I’d walk into his office today and ask him very directly what resources he needed to build a tournament worthy roster, but he would have every available resource

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Not sure about his recruiting.

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McMahon has signed two top 20 recruiting classes and has won a grand total of 14 SEC (regular season) games in 3 years with them. I'm willing to roll the dice on someone else. What use is "good recruiting" if you can't translate it to on-court performance.

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Those same players wouldn’t win in the SEC.

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Those same players beat two SEC teams McMahon couldn't beat Missouri and Vanderbilt). They also beat one he did beat, Kansas St. I'm willing to bet he could get a better class of transfers at LSU than he could at Drake. Given he was already able to beat SEC teams with "lesser players", I be willing to give him a shot to see what he could do with better players. Even if they were just on the same level of all three of McMahon's rosters.

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Come on man. Is it more logical to think the AD wants to tank the basketball program, or that he’s trying to make the best of a bad situation. Be serious.

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The AD CREATED the bad situation. McMahon is his hire. Yet rather than accepting the reality nearly 100 games of results/data have produced and changing course, he's rolling out the same coach and expecting different results. He's not "making the best of a bad situation". He's either not recognizing it is a bad situation or worse, he recognizes it is a bad situation and choosing to not meaningfully address it.

The situation creates a vicious cycle. LSU (purportedly) needs "better" players. Well, those types of players will be in-demand for other programs too. Given nearly all of those program will be able to display a track record of success better than LSU, that means LSU will have to grossly overpay for such guys. If not, the players will likely choose to sign with programs where they have more confidence they can succeed. On the flip-side, if LSU can't sign those better, expensive, in-demand players, then they are left with the second tier group which McMahon has already proven he can't win with.

Save it for football baseball and women’s basketball until we get someone that can coach them

You’re going to have massive turnover every year with this clown as coach

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You’re going to have massive turnover every year with this clown as coach

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or any coach really