re: tCivil War is Coming Among the LSU MBB Fanbase

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tCivil War is Coming Among the LSU MBB Fanbase

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Basketball is definitely not a big enough deal at LSU to warrant a “Civil War”. It’s just not- we have never been a perennial, consistent powerhouse and regardless of what anyone thinks ole Slick Willy would have never gotten us there. He elevated the program, but he certainly was never going to be this great X’s and O’s coach.
Basketball has been much more of a “bridge sport” to fill in the calendar before baseball season. Football and baseball are LSU’s mens sports, always will be.

Wade isnt coming back.

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Wade isnt coming back.

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It would not surprise me in the least if he shows up in the SEC. Somewhere he could start quietly and build a behemoth.

Taking the general. The American gangster.

General Wade for me!!!!

frick LSU basketball for getting rid of him!!!! They should have rode it out, it would have went away, especially now the way players are getting big money..

frick dickie Vagina
frick the NCAA trying to pretend they still have control of anything
And frick LSU for caving to the pressure

Live in the past or live in the present.

I choose present.

‘Ridden’. ‘Gone’. Hard to take anything you say seriously.

First, as much as I appreciate the 5 year run Wade had where basketball was consistently winning and reaching NCAA Tournaments, that time is over. It's time to move on.

Second, to see LSU go from beating Arkansas and nearly winning at Kentucky to being completely outclassed in the next 3 games is frustrating. I never thought LSU would have a winning record in the first 8 games of SEC play. But I also didn't think they wouldn't be able to compete with the likes of Florida and A&M, and that they would just completely mail it in vs. Alabama. My worry is that some of the team is checking out on the staff. Now, winning cures all. But staring down the barrel of three more really tough games doesn't give you much hope winning is coming soon.

Most reasonable fans felt the best LSU could probably do this season is finish somewhere in the middle of the SEC. Right now there are 7 teams with only 1 or 2 wins in conference. That includes Kentucky and Arkansas who had MUCH bigger preseason expectations. It also includes Missouri and Mississippi St who had strong non-conference showings against weak competition...like LSU. Point being, a lot could change in 13 games.

I think this roster is better (overall) than Wade's 1st LSU team. But, I think we all forget that first season with Wade wasn't all roses. They followed up a big win vs. Michigan with a (near) 40 point loss to Notre Dame. LSU also started out unexpectedly hot in conference play. Nearly beating Kentucky, before upsetting ranked A&M and an Arkansas team on the road. They then lost 5 of 6. Including back to back games at Auburn and Tennessee in blowouts where the game was over within the first 10 minutes.

Just like it was absurd for many on here to triumphantly declare "we FINALLY have a basketball coach now!" a month ago in a definitive statement that McMahon would be the best HC at LSU ever, it is equally absurd to write him and the program off now. I think many LSU fans look at basketball through the prism of football where you only have 12 games and everyone of those is huge. Basketball has 30+ games in a season. And for every team there are generally ebbs and flows during those 30 games. So overreacting to one game...even has horrible a performance as Saturday was...is not advisable. Weird results happen in college basketball all the time. For instance. Tennessee was destroying opponents to start SEC play. One of those was South Carolina who they beat by 43. South Carolina was probably one of the two worst teams in the SEC. However, in the very next game South Carolina goes to Rupp Arena and beats Kentucky. Kentucky fans are absolutely losing their minds. So all Kentucky does in their next game is go in to Tennessee and hand them their first home loss of the season.

The takeaway: Not every game is a referendum on a head coach's career. McMahon and is team are in a big ebb right now. But we have seen them play well this season also. Let's see if they can figure it out and not declare he's a horrible HC halfway through his first season.

Both are fricking stupid.






Where do we add the Mulkey Army to coach the men?

Will Wade, good coach. Terrible cheater


McMahon : impossible to judge. Fans overrated this roster, and bought in even more after a hot start, and now are disappointed

Fans did the same thing last year when Wade’s team started 12-0 and then went something like 10-12 through SEC play & postseason. Can’t just talent for shite