re: What was Scott thinking with MM?

As I recall, Scott dragged his feet in hiring a coach thus missing out on Todd Golden. If I remember correctly, McMahon was the only interview we heard about. I knew from his boring press conference that he had the personality that was not conducive to winning in this era.

As others have said, I think Scott wanted a lowkey personality and he got taken in by McMahon’s Murray State record.

It was an incredibly lazy and shortsighted hire. The results backed that up.

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Kansas kept Self for as bad or worse, and Self was implicated in text messages making 6-figure offers

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Kansas flipped the NCAA the bird and gave Self a lifetime contract with allegations and proof much worse than WW.

Let's be honest, Fat Scott gave the reporters that ganged up on WW their info to give fatty ammo to fire.

Most of Stankey's anger at LSU is

1. The SEC told LSU to back off taking Kiffin from Ole Miss.
2. The SEC told LSU not to hire WW again.

LSU flipped off Bham and did the opposite.

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Scott was thinking

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Scott was thinking, “Mmmm, cheeseburger.”

McMahon had a solid resume and he was coming off a great season at Murray St. In fact, he had a better resume than Todd Golden, who Florida hired that cycle, and had just beaten Golden in the NCAA Tournament. If you looked at the 6 SEC coaches hired that cycle McMahon had the best resume (at least at the D1 level) outside of Mike White who Georgia hired because Florida didn't really want him anymore.

The problem is sometimes you have dig deeper beyond the resume to see if the guy is the right guy at the right time for your program. That is obviously very difficult to do. Yes, with the benefit of hindsight it was an awful hire. But at the time it wasn't an obvious "bad" hire. He may not have been everyone's preferred hire. But it wasn't objectively awful. ANYONE saying otherwise is doing so through prism of hindsight.

Where LSU went wrong was not accepting it was a bad hire quickly enough. That was evident in year 1. While that team was never expected to be great, there is ZERO reason it should have been that bad. MM was totally outmatched and it never got much, if any, better (despite what the handful of perpetual excuse makers still today want to portray). That LSU fans had to sit through 4 miserable years of it was because of the remaining local desire to bring Wade back. The AD and President were never going to do that. They would have rather hung on to MM for a year or two extra to avoid the political pressure to bring back Wade.

LSU should have cut-bait, at minimum, after year 3. There was no reason to extend the inevitable. All it did was bring an equally useless year 4 and a fight that, if some factions won out, would have MM still at LSU today (and no one in the PMAC)

Who is MM?

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Mulkey was pissed at Baylor not spending money.

She wanted to be back in Louisiana.

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that's what I thought. She seemed to make that pretty clear at the presser.