Talk all you want...

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but in their prime, Coach John Wooden or Phil Jackson or Coach K could not have put together a winning, top tier SEC team in year one under the circumstances Matt McMahon inherited.

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None of them did. Coach K was on the brink of being fired after three years. Then he signed Johnny Dawkins. Dawkins saved his career.

I just want to see some emotion out of his players and him. And I want him starting the best players and hill isn’t one of them

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Because he's a gangsta and such...

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This is so pathetic

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you don’t think if coach K was hired instead of McMahon LSU wouldn’t have gotten high caliber recruits and transfers immediately?

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Exactly, Woodward needed to flash some money and get a bigger name coach.

The scenario you present and we are in is a MOUNTAIN for coach McMahon to overcome. Nobody disputes this.

The problem we have is that we should have laughed in the face of the NCAA just like KU and UNC did/are doing. We are a powerful enough brand and football program to tell the weak assed, hanging by a motherfLucking thread NCAA to go scratch their arse. Especially when EVERY OTHER MOTHERFLUCKING SCHOOL pays these top players under the table, and for the most part, crickets from the media. Hypocrisy at it's finest. And WE SHOULDN'T HAVE BENT OVER AND TAKEN IT.

Back to Kansas. I don't know this for a fact, but I do know this (it's common sense). KU got together with the NCAA and worked out an arrangement where the NCAA backs the fLuck off of them, but allows the NCAA to have the "appearance" of policing the Jayhawks, resulting in a slap on the wrist and Bill Self staying right the fLuck where he's at. There are 2-3 scenarios why Woody refused to stand behind the best coach LSU has had since Dale, and probably could ever get. My money is on doing his in law Emmert a solid, and allowing him to save face by saying "we made LSU get rid of Wade."

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The WW cocksuckeer don’t care and have zero room for logic… suck away boys

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Now that is a reasoned and intelligent response.

Congratulations on finally reaching your teen age years.

It’s funny how some think MM should have just waved a magic wand and the talent would have flocked to LSU. Where I disagree a little with you is in the fact that the portal being in place now would allow those coaches to bring their talent with them. Let’s face it, none of those coaches would have left the upper echelon programs to coach LSU’s MBB team, they aren’t considered an top tier program and wasn’t an elite program even when WW was here. The women’s program wasn’t considered elite and got a legend to come but only because of circumstances for her, was it a good move to make. I don’t see a ton of talent on the team as of now, the only guys who matched up talent wise yesterday was KJ and Miller. The rest of those guys are bench players.

Will do Matt. Please remember though it’s just basketball. The vast majority aren’t interested until March.

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The “muh no talent” excuse is false. We have more top 100 recruits than all but 4 or 5 SEC schools..... We have an all-conf level big who wasn’t a top 100 guy and is a 5th year Sr..... We have 6 other veteran players who’ve played and contributed for winning teams and he has two 4* and a 5* freshman.... You can’t excuse all of that by claiming there’s just no talent on this team

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Do your eyes tell you that each of these players has been evaluated accurately?
Is Miller who you thought he was? Juice Hill?
At this point, do your eyes tell you that this team has 5 legit starters capable of Average SEC performance?
Do your eyes tell you that Ward, Phillips, and Reid play like Top 100 Recruits?
Other than KJ, my eyes haven't seen many consistently average performances - let alone the kind of individual flashes of god given athleticism you associate with above average talent.
I love em' all because they're Tigers but our talent level is below average.