re: Time to move on from Matt, regardless of the cost to fire him

Posted by chRxis

None of your fricking business

Member since Feb 2008

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 10:20 pm to friendlyobservation

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Where does this rank all time in LSU's history?

IMO, he's easily the worst HC of LSU MBB ever... and it's not even particularly close....

Posted by robertgamb

Member since Jan 2015

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 10:21 pm to friendlyobservation

He is without question the worst ever since the day he got here he has kept LSU in the bottom of the SEC. It is past time for him to go,he has had 4 years to do something and there in last place again! Bye Bye McClown go on get the frick OUT!!!

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Posted by tadelatt

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 10:24 pm to robertgamb

How can you consistently bring in talented recruits, be ranked in the top 25 and yet still end up this bad? Coaching

Posted by Madking

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 10:26 pm to robertgamb

Halfway through SEC play, year 1 I posted that he would end up having the worst winning% in program history. Before I posted it I thought that maybe making that claim was a bit irresponsible and careless but then I thought about what I was seeing on the court every game and it took about 30 seconds to realize there was 0% chance I was wrong about him so I hit submit.

This post was edited on 2/21/26 at 10:28 pm

Posted by Madking

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 10:35 pm to tadelatt

Let me ask you a couple questions.

Who’s the better player… I know their production numbers, I just want your opinion..
Reece or Mosely?
Miller or Tamba?

How far apart are Carter and King talent wise?

Posted by LSUFootballLover

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 10:37 pm to Madking

Good evaluator of talent, he is not.

Posted by Madking

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 10:42 pm to LSUFootballLover

He isn’t good at anything. Look at his roster construction, any through line? Does our style fit our players? 4 years, 4 completely different types of roster all trying to play the exact same way, a style that didn’t fit any of them. There isn’t a word in the English language for how inept this guy is.

Posted by shiftworker

Member since Dec 2011

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:02 pm to Madking

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How does the worst coach in program history, for any sport, achieve such an absolutely loyal cult?

Those are the WW haters. They’d rather lose everything forever than to have The General here.

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Posted by Madking

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:15 pm to shiftworker

Agree completely

Posted by tarzana

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:32 pm to ellessuuuu

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Make the right hire

Not that easy. For one thing, much to my chagrin and to the chagrin of many posters here and countless LSU basketball fans, Will Wade is NOT COMING BACK. And it's just a crapshoot selecting a coach--for every Byington or Golden out there, there are three or four that may be as bad or worse than McMahon. Also there are two other SEC teams who may be parting ways with their head coaches-- a lot of fan discontent with Porter Moser at Oklahoma and Lamont Paris at SC. Even Chris Beard at Ole Miss hasn't been any great shakes there.

Keep McMahon one more year, give him the money and just let him coach for pete's sake.

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Posted by Madking

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:33 pm to tarzana

Why do you think it’s a crap shoot? You don’t think it’s possible to identify a good coach?

Posted by ellessuuuu

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:42 pm to tarzana

No, it really isn’t a crap shoot. Anybody who sat down and interviewed MM and came away with this is the guy that has what it takes to win at the highest level is an idiot.

What is a sure thing is that every dime you sink into MM is sunk cost. If he stays it’s another waste of NIL funds on a team that will sell the fewest season tickets in modern basketball history at LSU.

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Posted by tarzana

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:43 pm to tadelatt

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His style doesn't match the way we play down South

I believe Coach McMahon has lived and worked in the South his whole life. He's from Oak Ridge, Tennessee (you can't get more "southern" than that) and he coached for years at Murray State

Posted by Madking

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:47 pm to ellessuuuu

His style of play matches his demeanor. Soulless, bot, directionless, not really basketball but someone trying to mimic basketball.

Posted by Circle K Beggar

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:48 pm to tarzana

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Keep McMahon one more year, give him the money and just let him coach for pete's sake.

I want to believe this is a troll.

Posted by Madking

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Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:52 pm to Circle K Beggar

I had one earlier tell me that we need to keep him because if we win the program will lose a ton of money but if we lose we’ll make plenty. His reasoning was the girls team loses money but they’re a winning team so the same applies to the boys. Not trying to be mean but these people have something wrong with them.

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Posted by Circle K Beggar

Somewhere in the lower 48

Member since Feb 2011

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Posted on 2/22/26 at 12:33 am to Madking

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I had one earlier tell me that we need to keep him because if we win the program will lose a ton of money but if we lose we’ll make plenty. His reasoning was the girls team loses money but they’re a winning team so the same applies to the boys. Not trying to be mean but these people have something wrong with them

Good grief.